''Addie and Hermy - The Nasty Nazis'' was a British

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series created by Sam Fair, which appeared in the magazine ''

The Dandy ''The Dandy'' was a Scottish children's comic magazine published by the Dundee based publisher DC Thomson. The first issue was printed in December 1937, making it the world's third-longest running comic, after '' Il Giornalino'' (cover dated 1 Oc ...

'' from 1939 until 1941. It was published by the

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-based publishing-firm DC Thomson and Co. The comic strip starred caricatures of

Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 until Death of Adolf Hitler, his suicide in 1945. Adolf Hitler's rise to power, He rose to power as the lea ...

and

Hermann Göring Hermann Wilhelm Göring (or Goering; ; 12 January 1893 – 15 October 1946) was a German Nazism, Nazi politician, aviator, military leader, and convicted war criminal. He was one of the most powerful figures in the Nazi Party, which gov ...

, using typical

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stereotypes and speech to portray the characters. The BBC states that they were 'usually embroiled in a

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that went wrong'. It was part of the British war time

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during

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. A similar comic by the same publishing firm poked fun at

Benito Mussolini Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini (29 July 188328 April 1945) was an Italian politician and journalist who, upon assuming office as Prime Minister of Italy, Prime Minister, became the dictator of Fascist Italy from the March on Rome in 1922 un ...

and was called ''Musso the

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''.

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