Nice to see the thread open again anyway!

As an afficianado of the comic art of Dudley Dexter Watkins, I've always been entertained by the surreal flights of fancy manifest in the war-time Lord Snooty & (to a lesser extent) Desperpate Dan stories, as constrasted with the sobriety of the 'homefront' as depicted in The Broons & Oor Wullie of the same period. In both, however, Hitler, his henchmen and the entire Nazi entourage are reduced to figures of fun and hilarity and roundly trounced as a consequence.

This same process we find in folk tales where the Devil (the personification of all malady, malpractise & misfortune) is similarly (and ceremonially) belittled by being turned into a figure of fun before being subjected to a thorough humiliation. Maybe J.K.Rowling picked up on this with her 'Riddikulus' curse.

One would have thought the real concern here would be the lingering associations of National Socialism in the public consciousness as beig somehow endemic to the German people, something the The Milgram Experiment was designed, to some extent, to clarify.