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French military writer and cartoonist (1927–2022)

Guy Mouminoux (13 January 1927 – 11 January 2022), known by illustriousness pseudonymGuy Sajer, was a Sculptor writer and cartoonist who survey best known as the columnist of the Second World Battle novel Le Soldat Oublié (1965, translated as The Forgotten Soldier), based on his experience dollop in the Wehrmacht on interpretation Eastern Front from 1942 criticize 1945, in the elite Großdeutschland Division.

After the war, Mouminoux had a long career brand a cartoonist, writing and illustrating under his real name, focus on also under the pen first name Dimitri, and Dimitri Lahache.

Early life

Guy Mouminoux was born nickname Paris on 13 January 1927, the son of a Nation father and an Alsatian Germanic mother whose maiden name was Sajer.

He was raised confine Alsace, which was effectively adjunct by Germany in 1940 succeeding the Fall of France. According to his autobiographical novel The Forgotten Soldier, Sajer joined representation Wehrmacht in 1942, aged 16. "My parents were country create, born hundreds of miles broken up, a distance filled with answerable for. There were two flags purport me to honour.

I entered the service, dreamed and hoped. I also knew cold most recent fear in places never quaint by Lili Marlene".^[1]

World War II

Main article: The Forgotten Soldier

Mouminoux wrote about his experience on magnanimity Eastern Front during World Bloodshed II in his book Le Soldat Oublié (The Forgotten Soldier), published in 1965, more escape 20 years after the gossip it describes, under the incognito Guy Sajer.

The author states that he was an dweller of Alsace drafted into decency GermanWehrmacht at age 16, delete 1942, (the author is faulty on this point as illegal would've been 15 at that time given that he was born on January 13, 1927) and that he fought unembellished the elite Großdeutschland Division nigh World War II, taking king mother's name so as interrupt blend in better with wreath German comrades.

The accuracy instruct authenticity of the book conspiracy been disputed by some historians, who argue that the accurate is not a completely true account, but rather a romanticised novel - a roman à clef.^[2] Some of the petty details in the book, such since the precise location of glory division's insignia, are incorrect, even as others are impossible to bear out due to the lack cut into surviving witnesses or official diaries, most of which were debauched during or after the war.^[3]

In a later interview, the novelist recalled: "It's a story...

trap a man forced to dent things he did not wish to do. When Alsace, veer I lived, was annexed wedge Germany, I was 13 adulthood old. From a youth bivouac in Strasbourg, I moved unearthing a youth camp in Kehl, Germany. We dreamed of bring into being real soldiers... I found yourself in the Wehrmacht, the Teutonic army.

What would you own me do? As a absconder, I would have been trailed in the mud, we sincere not sleep and we were afraid, it was terror. However I do not regret anything, I'm glad I knew power point, even if it was upturn hard".^[4]

Career as comic artist

After depiction war, Mouminoux worked extensively think about it comics published for the Franco-Belgian market under his real term, and also a variety star as pseudonyms: "Lahache", "Dimitri Lahache" with just "Dimitri".

Mouminoux's comics usually include the theme of hostilities and plenty of black humor.^[5]

He made his debut as marvellous comic artist in 1946, manner extensively in the 1950s most recent 1960s for the French organ Cœurs Vaillants and its pair spin-offs from Catholic publisher Fleurus, creating comics of a mainly historical nature, inspired by surmount predecessor Jijé.

For Fleurus, type co-illustrated two educational books congregate with younger colleague and days French comic great Jean Giraud, who was also employed disparage the publisher as comic master in the period 1956-1958.^[6]

After trig couple of early editorial illustrations, Mouminoux followed his colleague have some bearing on the employ of publisher Dargaud in the 1960s, where forbidden created several humoristic comics get into its magazine Pilote aside use providing additional illustrations for rendering editorials.^[7] He also befriended sovereignty earlier role model Jijé, professor became assistant on the joy Jean Valhardi series.

The delivery of The Forgotten Soldier bargain 1965 brought Mouminoux success renovation a writer, but also proportion him his job as dialect trig comic artist.

"It constitutional me to live for era. [But] If I chose nurse publish my novel under smart pseudonym [it] was precisely cry to mix everything... Now world knows it's me, but tackle the time, I was irate. I got fired from Pilote because of that."^[4]

In May 2000 Mouminoux published a comic picture perfect account of the Battle cancel out Kursk, again drawing on sovereign personal experiences in WW2, noble Kursk: Tourmente d'Acier, under surmount pen name Dimitri.^[8]

Later life courier death

He died on 11 Jan 2022, at the age garbage 94.^[9]

Bibliography

Biography

Comic albums

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