The Swedish, the Nazis, and Walt Disney

Why must we insist on living in the past? On the way into work today I heard that CW50 (formerly the WB, formerly UPN 50, formerly Fox Detroit, formerly WKBD 50) is planning on producing a remake of the long running Beverly Hills 90210. So many of the shows and movies of our childhood have been remade and repackaged that I am becoming convinced that we will never see a new idea again. There is a Smurf movie in the works for Pete’s sake!!!! All I can say is that if you are going to dig up the treasures of my childhood, the least you can do for me is a Gummi Bear 5 part mini-series on either ABC or NBC (I don’t care which). This show was the pinnacle of the 1980’s capitalistic Saturday morning cartoon. Most cartoons in the 80’s were nothing more than half hour commercials for toys, i.e. Transformers, GI Joe, Gem, but it took a true stroke of genius to make a show based on candy. Not just any candy, but a candy enjoyed by little German children since the 1920’s when it was invented by Hans Riegel of the Haribo candy company. This candy however was not made in the U. S. until 1982, and a mere 3 years later the cartoon (no doubt to bolster sagging sales in the lil’ Kraut Candy) came to be. I think that there was more to this than just candy sales. Disney produced The Gummi Bear show, and we all know of the rumored Anti-Semitic opinions of one Mr. Walt Disney. In disliking the Children of Israel, Walt aligned himself with the people of Nazi Germany. What you ask was the goal of Nazi Germany? The answer is conquest. Hitler never conquered Sweden in WWII. As a result of this tactical decision, Sweden was left with ample resources after WWII to create Swedish Fish in 1958 and export them to the U.S. This corruption of the original pure German Gummi Bear struck a cord in Walt Disney as yet another Nazi Defeat. That is why Walt put into play a plan to destroy the U.S. Swedish Fish market with the Gummi Bear television show, but his death in 1966 delayed the plan some nearly 20 years.

Speaking of Sweden, here is a clip from a Swedish television show.


via videosift.com