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Considered today a children's classic, the story was banned by the Nazis in 1935 as Jewish propaganda - Click the link for more details.

It’s a saccharine sweet story about a young deer who finds love and friendship in a forest. But the original tale of Bambi, adapted by Disney in 1942, has much darker beginnings as an existential novel about persecution and antisemitism in 1920s Austria. Now, a new translation seeks to reassert the rightful place of Felix Salten’s 1923 masterpiece in adult literature and shine a light on how Salten was trying to warn the world that Jews would be terrorized, dehumanized and murdered in the years to come. Far from being a children’s story, Bambi was actually a parable about the inhumane

Brutal, bleak and filled with cruelty, Bambi: A Life In The Woods was written as an allegory about the rise of anti-Semitism in Germany.

While the 1942 Disney film is far more well-known, the original text analogizes the tragic story of a fawn to the plight of Jews just before the Holocaust

Of all the folk tales, pageants, legends, and fables to accompany Christmas, few have achieved the level of immortality as "The Nutcracker."