Göring, btw, was a decorated hero of WWi, & also most courageous at the Nürnberg Trials; & cheated the hangman by contriving to keep a vial of sulphuric acid in his navel & swallowing it on the morning planned for his execution. A man of some courage & resource, I think it must be admitted. But when a columnist {Clive James, was it?} made these points about him a few years ago, he was attacked for suggesting that such a person could possess any virtues ~~ or, even if he did, it would be more seemly to keep quiet about them.

I am on the columnist's side; and this seems to me a point worth making on this column. There is a another scene in Downfall, the film from which the scene subtitled to make all these parodies comes, in which AH is kind to his dog, & particularly charming to a group of young-lady applicants for the job of his secretary. If we are not allowed to remember his more humane moments, or to laugh at his absurdities, we will have a false picture.

Remember, it was Hitler's own idiosyncracies that were/are being made the subject of humour; not his situation, as was the, imo absolutely unacceptable, case with the Anne Frank joke.

~M~