Message To Adolf, Vol. 1

By Osamu Tezuka,

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It is 1936 in Berlin, Nazi Germany. A Japanese reporter named Sohei Tohge is covering the Berlin Olympic Games for the Japanese press. As he sits in the Japanese press box watching the many track and field events of the day, he receives a call from his younger brother Isao,…

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This epic comic book of over 1200 pages in two volumes was an absolute joy to read. It has the fast pace of a Tintin adventure, but with more in depth characters and story.

It interweaves four main characters, each called Adolf. A German Japanese boy who grows up to join the Hitler youth, a Jewish German boy living in Japan as a refugee, Hitler himself, and a reporter who is in possession of documents proving that Adolph Hitler has Jewish blood.

It is really interesting to see this Second World War period from a Japanese perspective and the fact…

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