Anyone into Hitler Parodies?

[Ste11aeres]

I really get cracked up by the Hitler/MLP videos on youtube

 

[76054Pluto]

I love Hitler parodies. One of my favourites would have to be by John Cleese. I think it was in a sketch on one of the Monty Python shows back in the 1970s. I think that one of the most ridiculous things about the real Hitler was that he took himself so seriously which can make him an ideal target for satire.

 

[IContainMultitudes]

 

[Gomendosi]

 

[Aalo]

I like those "Hitler hears about..." videos from THAT exact scene from movie Downfall. Most funny ones are done about my local events, but there are my two favorites in english:

 

[Ste11aeres]

I like those "Hitler hears about..." videos from THAT exact scene from movie Downfall. Most funny ones are done about my local events, but there are my two favorites in english:

I posted this link on another thread Hitler hears Trolololo song - YouTube

 

[IContainMultitudes]

A Hitler parody film made during World War II:

http://www.openculture.com/2013/02/... a_mash_up_that_enraged_joseph_goebbels.html

[video=youtube;gYdmk3GP3iM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=gYdmk3GP3iM[/video]

In a terrific historical prank that sent Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels storming out of the screening room, British minister Charles A. Ridley edited together scenes from the film Triumph of the Will with the music from the musical Me and My Girl to create a spoof that infuriated leaders of the Third Reich.

Lambeth Walk?Nazi Style was released in 1941 to newsreel companies. It was billed as ?Schichlegruber Doing the Lambeth Walk, Assisted by the Gestapo Hep Cats,? and lays the catchy tune against images of Hitler and Nazi soldiers from Leni Riefenstahl?s seminal propaganda film.

The story goes that the parody enraged Goebbels to such an extent that he ran out of the screening room, kicking at chairs and screaming obscenities.

?The Lambeth Walk? tune was written for the 1937 musical, about a Cockney boy who inherits a fortune and must leave behind his working-class ways to become a gentleman. Nazi party officials called the tune ?Jewish mischief and animalistic hopping,? making it even funnier as the background music for Nazi soldiers parading.

The name ?Schichlegruber,? by the way, was also a dig at Hitler. It was the name of his maternal grandmother, whose son Alois (Hitler?s father) was an illegitimate child. Oops!

 

[Meistersinger]

That all Mel Brooks ever does in a lot of his movies and plays. He'll be getting as much mileage out of lambasting Hitler until He drops dead.

 

[ancusmitis]

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AdolfHitlarious

"I was never crazy about Hitler. If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator, you never win. That's what they do so well: they seduce people. But if you ridicule them, bring them down with laughter, they can't win. You show how crazy they are."
— Mel Brooks
In short: Adolf Hitler is treated as a joke instead of a monster. No, this doesn't intend to excuse anything done under his regime. The point is that instead of being treated as some kind of boogeyman or evil incarnate, he's treated as something stupid, for reasons stated in the above quote. This was essentially the default portrayal of Hitler in most Allied media during World War II. The revelation of the Holocaust in the final years of the war made this a more controversial trope. Making light of the Nazis is, essentially, making light of the things they did. Although, that's not usually the intention of the people making Nazi jokes. A Sub-Trope of Those Wacky Nazis (with actual emphasis on the "wacky") and Historical Hilarity. Compare Stupid Jetpack Hitler.​

 

[IContainMultitudes]

Fans of this type of thing should check out this wacky Australian series (with stop-motion Nazi dinosaurs!):

 

[Loomis]

Charlie Chaplain 1940 The Great Dictator