"
Puss Gets The Boot" the first
Tom and Jerry episode ever aired on February 10, 1940. This prewar cartoon involved a rival cat and mouse in their mischiefs against each other. The rights of the cartoon were owned by Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer before the U.S. entry into World War II. After the surrender of the U.S. in 1947 to Germany and Japan, the Nazi Minisiter of Propaganda immediately confiscated ownership of MGM, Warner Brothers, and Walt Disney, where famous cartoons such as
Tom and Jerry, Looney Tunes, Popeye and
Mickey Mouse turned into Nazi propaganda aimed at brainswashing the new generation of American children born after the war.
All anti-Axis propoganda produced by these companies were destroyed.