Joan Baum Discusses Felix Salten's Classic Novel "Bambi": In Person

1945 marks 80 years since the ending of World War II and the liberation of Europe's concentration camps. It is also the year the little know Austro-Hungarian writer and critic Felix Salten died. Salten, born Siegmund Salzmann in Pest, Hungary, was the author of Bambi: The Story of a Life in the Forest. A tale first published in German in 1923, from which one of the most remarkable cinematic events of all time was made by Walt Disney in 1942. The beloved movie that has engaged youngesters and adults for decades, however, is far from the unsentimental allegory intended by its Jewish author, a prominent and controversial member of Vienna's intellectual café society, who clearly saw what was happening in Nazi ascendant Germany.

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