Moffenspiegel - The Busy Bee

During the Second World War the students Geert Lubberhuizen and Charles van Blommestein together with some other students from Utrecht in the Netherlands set up a small illegal press. This press ‘De Bezige Bij’ (The Busy Bee) wanted to finance their resistance movement with clandestine and illegal publications.

A particularly appealing book ‘Moffenspiegel’ (Krauts mirror) appeared in 1944. The writer/cartoonist Karel Links (who is in this edition of course not named) made this popular underground work with graphic anti-Hitler cartoons. The book was a success and did manage to generate a lot of money for the underground movement. After the war, the book due to great demand for it, appeared in print again.