E.R. Ramzipoor Brings WWII Resistance Newspaper to Light

“Political scientists and the public at large, don’t pay attention to literature as a component of resistance.” Belgium during the Nazi occupation, E. R. Ramzipoor’s novel – The Ventriloquist – tells how the Belgian resistance published a newspaper poking fun at the Nazis. “There were so many ordinary people who resisted in these crazy creative ways…There were fake obituaries. It just blows my mind to think of the audacity of these people, who were putting their lives on the line for a joke….to write fake obituaries for Nazi sympathizers.”