Η ώρα του κούταβου

Επιστροφή στον δεύτερο παγκόσμιο σήμερα και ώρα για παλιά, καλή και απροκάλυπτη προπαγάνδα. Ο κούταβος εντόπισε μία ασυνήθιστη παραλλαγή του γνωστού παραμυθιού με τον κακό το λύκο και τα τρία γουρουνάκια, γυρισμένη το 1942 από την γνωστή Metro Goldwyn Mayer. Το Blitz Wolf ήταν υποψήφιο για Oscar καλύτερου κινουμένου σχεδίου, έχασε όμως από το Der Fuehrer's Face της ανταγωνίστριας Walt Disney.

Η ελάχιστη προσπάθεια που κατέβαλε ο δημιουργός Tex Avery για ν' αποκρύψει τον συσχετισμό του κακού λύκου με τον Αδόλφο είναι χαρακτηριστική του κλίματος της εποχής και δικαιολογεί τα κύματα λογοκρισίας από τα οποία το έργο διήλθε μεταπολεμικά. Τα όποια ξεκαρδιστικά gags δεν δικαιολογούν επαρκώς για παράδειγμα τον βομβαρδισμό και εξάλειψη του Τόκυο από τον χάρτη, κάτι που ο McNamara επιχείρησε τρία χρόνια αργότερα με βόμβες ναπάλμ.

McNamara: I was on the island of Guam in his command in March of 1945. In that single night, we burned to death 100,000 Japanese civilians in Tokyo: men, women, and children.
Morris: Were you aware this was going to happen?
McNamara: Well, I was part of a mechanism that in a sense recommended it. I analyzed bombing operations, and how to make them more efficient. i.e. Not more efficient in the sense of killing more, but more efficient in weakening the adversary. I wrote one report analyzing the efficiency of the B—29 operations. The B—29 could get above the fighter aircraft and above the air defense, so the loss rate would be much less. The problem was the accuracy was also much less. Now I don't want to suggest that it was my report that led to, I'll call it, the firebombing. It isn't that I'm trying to absolve myself of blame. I don't want to suggest that it was I who put in LeMay's mind that his operations were totally inefficient and had to be drastically changed. But, anyhow, that's what he did. He took the B—29s down to 5,000 feet and he decided to bomb with firebombs.
... LeMay said, "If we'd lost the war, we'd all have been prosecuted as war criminals." And I think he's right. He, and I'd say I, were behaving as war criminals. LeMay recognized that what he was doing would be thought immoral if his side had lost. But what makes it immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win?