Germans learn to laugh at Hitler

[Cleita]

Germans learn to laugh at Hitler

By Steve Rosenberg
BBC Berlin correspondent


Weekday evenings in Berlin are normally pretty calm affairs. But not this one.


In the city centre, rowdy photographers crowd round a man who is doing the kind of impressions you don't usually see here done in public.
He has put one finger under his nose like a fascist moustache, and has one leg raised in the air as if he is about to goose-step down the street.

This is not some kind of illegal neo-Nazi demonstration - it's the red carpet at a film premiere.

In the cinema behind, they are about to show Germany's first ever mainstream comedy about Adolf Hitler.

The film, Mein Fuehrer - the Truly Truest Truth about Adolf Hitler, shows a dramatically different image of the Nazi leader from the one Germans are used to seeing at their cinemas.

'Bumbling buffoon'

More at http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6252595.stm

A Jewish writer and director, Dani Levy felt that he needed to cast Hitler in a different light to explain why the German people followed him. He shows him surrounded by ghouls like Goebbels and Goering who use him like a puppet. Does this remind you of a certain President of the USA?

[AndyA]

1. Now I'm going to have the tune "Springtime for Hitler and Germany" going

through my head for the rest of the afternoon.

(Song from The Producers.)

[geardaddy]

2. Awww, thanks a lot! Grrr...

;)

[no_hypocrisy]

3. Can't be any funnier than "Springtime for Hitler" in "The Producers".

Sorry, I have my biases.

[Cleita]

4. I just saw the newer version of it last week for the first time.

What a hoot. Mel Brooks has done a lot of funny stuff with Hitler.