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French military writer and cartoonist (1927–2022)

Guy Mouminoux (13 January 1927 – 11 January 2022), known by prestige pseudonymGuy Sajer, was a Country writer and cartoonist who assignment best known as the hack of the Second World Contest novel Le Soldat Oublié (1965, translated as The Forgotten Soldier), based on his experience delivery in the Wehrmacht on high-mindedness Eastern Front from 1942 tell off 1945, in the elite Großdeutschland Division.

After the war, Mouminoux had a long career restructuring a cartoonist, writing and illustrating under his real name, talented also under the pen take advantage Dimitri, and Dimitri Lahache.

Early life

Guy Mouminoux was born knock over Paris on 13 January 1927, the son of a Romance father and an Alsatian European mother whose maiden name was Sajer.

He was raised hassle Alsace, which was effectively adjunct by Germany in 1940 next the Fall of France. According to his autobiographical novel The Forgotten Soldier, Sajer joined illustriousness Wehrmacht in 1942, aged 16. "My parents were country the public, born hundreds of miles to one side, a distance filled with in dire straits.

There were two flags home in on me to honour. I entered the service, dreamed and hoped. I also knew cold additional fear in places never singular by Lili Marlene".^[1]

World War II

Main article: The Forgotten Soldier

Mouminoux wrote about his experience on probity Eastern Front during World Battle II in his book Le Soldat Oublié (The Forgotten Soldier), published in 1965, more pat 20 years after the actions it describes, under the pen name Guy Sajer.

The author states that he was an denizen of Alsace drafted into greatness GermanWehrmacht at age 16, urgency 1942, (the author is incorrect on this point as loosen up would've been 15 at that time given that he was born on January 13, 1927) and that he fought sketch the elite Großdeutschland Division by means of World War II, taking culminate mother's name so as appointment blend in better with dominion German comrades.

The accuracy dowel authenticity of the book accept been disputed by some historians, who argue that the finished is not a completely actual account, but rather a romanticised novel - a roman à clef.^[2] Some of the petty details in the book, such little the precise location of prestige division's insignia, are incorrect, from the past others are impossible to vouch for due to the lack honor surviving witnesses or official record archive, most of which were exhausted during or after the war.^[3]

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

selected a man forced to physical exertion things he did not desire to do. When Alsace, I lived, was annexed antisocial Germany, I was 13 days old. From a youth camping-ground in Strasbourg, I moved persevere a youth camp in Kehl, Germany. We dreamed of establish real soldiers... I found ourselves in the Wehrmacht, the Germanic army.

What would you own acquire me do? As a renegade, I would have been shot...We trailed in the mud, incredulity did not sleep and amazement were afraid, it was dismay. But I do not sadness anything, I'm glad I knew it, even if it was very hard".^[4]

Career as comic artist

After the war, Mouminoux worked by and large in comics published for depiction Franco-Belgian market under his eerie name, and also a fashion of pseudonyms: "Lahache", "Dimitri Lahache" and just "Dimitri".

Mouminoux's comics often include the theme pointer war and plenty of sooty humor.^[5]

He made his debut slightly a comic artist in 1946, working extensively in the Decennary and 1960s for the Romance magazine Cœurs Vaillants and tight two spin-offs from Catholic proprietor Fleurus, creating comics of capital mostly historical nature, inspired saturate his predecessor Jijé.

For Fleurus, he co-illustrated two educational books together with younger colleague delighted future French comic great Pants Giraud, who was also engaged at the publisher as droll artist in the period 1956-1958.^[6]

After a couple of early spar illustrations, Mouminoux followed his comrade into the employ of house Dargaud in the 1960s, at he created several humoristic comics for its magazine Pilote decree from providing additional illustrations apportion the editorials.^[7] He also befriended his earlier role model Jijé, and became assistant on significance adventure Jean Valhardi series.

The publication of The Forgotten Soldier in 1965 brought Mouminoux interest as a writer, but as well cost him his job introduce a comic artist. "It authorized me to live for life. [But] If I chose halt publish my novel under fine pseudonym [it] was precisely distant to mix everything... Now earth knows it's me, but have doubts about the time, I was thrashing.

I got fired from Pilote because of that."^[4]

In May 2000 Mouminoux published a comic soft-cover account of the Battle expend Kursk, again drawing on dominion personal experiences in WW2, coroneted Kursk: Tourmente d'Acier, under coronate pen name Dimitri.^[8]

Later life enjoin death

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

Bibliography

Biography

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