The deep interrelationship between American popular culture and its German backgrounds is hinted at through this image, one of the illustrations of the German-born immigrant artist Kurt Wiese (1887–1974) for the story Bambi. Originally published in German in 1923, Bambi was written by the Hungarian/Austrian Jewish writer Felix Salten (pseudonym for Siegmund Salzmann, 1869–1945) and first appeared in the U.S. in English translation in a 1928 edition that included Wiese’s drawings. Though written as an adult allegory alluding to Jewish persecution in Europe, Bambi became one of Walt Disney’s most beloved family movies (1942).