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Thread #136903 Message #3129720
Posted By: MGM·Lion
06-Apr-11 - 06:35 AM
Thread Name: BS: Funniest Hitler Video Ever
Subject: RE: BS: Funniest Hitler Video Ever
Fred: absolutely agree with you re Anne Frank, & made that point throughout the thread ~ but I and only one or two others, IIRC, were outnumbered by many 'got to keep a SOH' pleaders.
Hitler, OTOH, was subject of cartoons, political & otherwise, throughout WWii. I remember there was even a regular strip in one of the children's comics, either Beano or Dandy, called "Addie and Hermie, the nasty Nazis" ['Hermie', of course, for those too young to remember, being Hermann Göring, a very fat man so also easily caricaturable]. Hitler was not a victim, like Anne Frank, but a persecutor and perpetrator; so humour was regarded as an appropriate means of undercutting his baleful influence ~~ which seems to me a point worth making re all these ongoing parodies, in which he gets a girl pregnant, has Justin Bieber assassinated for out-popilarising him, despite warnings of the Reichstag being overwhelmed by irresistable mobs of teenage girls, & ends up haunted by Bieber's ghost...; which seem perhaps an acceptable form of attack on neo-Nazism?