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Adolf Hitler, in popular culture

Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889–30 April 1945) was the leader of the National Socialist German Workers' Party and Führer of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945.

How Hitler was represented during his lifetime

Numerous works in popular music and literature feature Adolf Hitler prominently. Before and during World War II, Hitler was often depicted inside Germany as a God-like figure, loved and respected by the German people, as, for example, in Triumph of the Will, which Hitler co-produced. Outside Germany he was often treated as an object of derision. Later works continued the latter trend. An exception was the German movie Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse (The Testament of Dr. Mabuse), (1933), which was banned by the Nazi propaganda ministry. Many critics consider Fritz Lang's depiction of a homicidal maniac masterminding a criminal empire from within the walls of a criminal asylum to be an allegory of the Nazi ascent to power in Germany. An early example of a cryptic depiction is in Bertolt Brecht's 1941 play, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, in which Hitler, in the persona of the principal character Arturo Ui, a Chicago racketeer in the cauliflower trade, is ruthlessly satirised. Brecht, who was German but left when the Nazis came to power, also expressed his opposition to the National Socialist and Fascist movements in other of his most famous plays. Other examples:

• Several Three Stooges shorts, the first being You Nazty Spy (1940), the very first Hollywood work lampooning Hitler and the Nazis in which the boys, with Moe Howard portraying "Moe Hailstone", as the Hitler character, are made dictators of the fictional country Moronica. This short in particular implies that business interests were behind Hitler's rise to power. It was also the first Hollywood production to satirize the Nazis. A sequel was released a year later entitled I'll Never Heil Again. This one illustrated the disagreements between Hitler and the League of Nations. In other Three Stooges shorts, Hitler is referred to as "Schicklgruber" in reference to his father Alois Hitler's birth name.
• Charlie Chaplin made fun of Hitler as "Adenoid Hynkel," the dictator of Tomainia in his 1940 movie The Great Dictator. This is one of the most recognizable Hitler parodies.
• In Fritz Lang's 1941 movie Man Hunt (playing before the war), Hitler is seen in the scope of a British hunter's rifle.
• In Ernst Lubitsch's 1942 movie To Be or Not to Be (as well as in Mel Brooks' remake in 1983), an actor from a Polish stage group imitates Hitler to enable the escape of the troupe to England
• Hitler was caricatured in numerous animated shorts during World War II, including Der Fuehrer's Face, a 1943 Disney wartime propaganda cartoon featuring Donald Duck, and Herr Meets Hare with Bugs Bunny (though Hitler's first appearance on a Warner Brothers cartoon was in Bosko's Picture Show in 1932 in a short gag where Hitler is shown chasing after Jimmy Durante with an ax).
• George Grosz painted Cain, or Hitler in Hell (1944) showing the dead attacking Hitler in Hell.
• The photomontage artist John Heartfield made frequent use of Hitler's image as a target for his brand of barbed satire during Hitler's lifetime.
• In the opening scenes of Citizen Kane (1941), Charles Foster Kane is described and shown as supporting, then denouncing Hitler.
• Several comic book superheroes battled Hitler directly or indirectly in comics published during World War II. Superheroes that combated Hitler include Superman, Captain America, The Shield, and Namor the Sub-Mariner. Captain America's archenemy, Red Skull, was established as being an apprentice to Hitler himself.
• Mocking satirical folk songs such as "Stalin Wasn't Stallin'", or new lyrics to old songs, such as "Hitler Has Only Got One Ball" (to the tune of the "Colonel Bogey March").
• Hitler has been known by many nicknames, including Awful Adolf and The Beast of Berlin.

Representations of Hitler after his death

After his death, Hitler continued to be depicted as incompetent or foolish. However, while Hitler's anti-Semitic policies were well known during his lifetime, it was only after his death that the full horrors of the Holocaust became known. This, coupled with Hitler no longer being a threat, has meant that the way he is depicted in popular culture has resulted in Hitler being considered evil personified.

Early life & Rise to power

• The 2002 film Max stars Noah Taylor as Hitler during his days as a failed artist in Munich just after World War I. John Cusack plays the title character, Max Rothman, a Jewish art dealer who takes Hitler under his wing out of pity, only to find that the angry young loner is becoming dangerously popular as the rabidly anti-Semitic speaker for the emerging German Worker's Party (which later became the Nazi Party.)
• The 2003 television film Hitler: The Rise of Evil stars Robert Carlyle in the title role and depicts Hitler's life from childhood through his appointment as Chancellor of Germany in 1933, until the Night of the Long Knives and the death of Reich President Paul von Hindenburg in 1934 which gave Hitler the opportunity to merge the offices of Chancellor and President into the new position of Führer und Reichskanzler, completing his ascension to full totalitarian, dictatorial power in Germany.

During WWII

• Moloch (1999), directed by Alexander Sokurov, starring Leonid Mozgovoy, deals with Hitler's life on his Berghof mountain retreat near Berchtesgaden during the war, drawing heavily from Hitler's Table Talk published after the war.

Latter days

• Hitler's last days in the bunker were first adapted into a German movie entitled Der letzte Akt (1955), directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst, starring Albin Skoda as the dictator
  • The first remake of the above film was the fifth and final part of the Soviet movie series Освобождение ("Liberation", 1969-72), directed by Yuri Ozerov, starring Fritz Diez (an actor commonly portraying Hitler in a number of East German films from 1955 onwards)
  • The second remake was Hitler: The Last Ten Days (1973), directed by Ennio de Concini, starring Alec Guinness
  • The third remake was the television film The Bunker (1981), directed by George Schaefer, starring Anthony Hopkins
  • The fourth and to date latest remake is Der Untergang (2004), directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel, starring Bruno Ganz. The stated intention of Hirschbiegel was to portray Hitler's "human side", which garnered a certain amount of criticism.
• Similarly depicting Hitler's final hour in the bunker, grotesque short film Hundert Jahre Adolf Hitler - Die letzte Stunde im Führerbunker (1989), directed by Christoph Schlingensief, starring Udo Kier, cannot be considered a remake of the above films in the proper sense.

Experimental films

• Hitler: A Film from Germany (1978), a 4-part, 442-minute experimental film on Hitler, directed by Hans-Jürgen Syberberg, starring Heinz Schubert.
• A similar non-linear approach to Syberberg's, likening Hitler to a movie director as well, was used in the film The Empty Mirror (1996), directed by Barry J. Hershey, starring Norman Rodway, speculating what if Hitler had survived WWII, lives in a secret subterranean bunker, and is today undergoing psychoanalysis conducted by Sigmund Freud.

Other

• Mel Brooks' comedy The Producers featured a satirical play-within-a-play called Springtime for Hitler, featuring dancing Nazis and songs about the conquest of Europe. Brooks' later comedy, History of the World, Part I, featured "Hitler on Ice."
• The 2000 Adam Sandler film Little Nicky portrays Hitler in Hell, being the subject of Satan's daily torture routine, which include pineapples shoved into his rear.

Fiction about Hitler's death

• In the novel The Berkut, Hitler is revealed to have faked his own death after staging an elaborate deception making it appear as if he had Parkinson's disease and then having a double apparently commit suicide in his place. Hitler escapes from Berlin with the aid of an SS-colonel and is eventually tracked down by a Russian squad of secret agents. He is captured alive, taken to Moscow, and kept in a cage beneath the Kremlin for Stalin's amusement. Shortly after Stalin's death, Hitler is executed.

• The novel by Ira Levin, The Boys from Brazil, and the film of the same name, indicates that Hitler conspired with Josef Mengele to clone himself prior to his death. Using a litre of Hitler's blood, Mengele begins a project in the 1960s to clone several Hitlers and distribute the Hitler infants to families throughout the world. Mengele later attempts to recreate the sociological environment of Hitler's youth, beginning with killing the fathers of all the Hitler clones. Mengele's plan is to eventually create a second Hitler who will come of age in the 21st century and establish the Fourth Reich.

Hitler in fiction

WorldCat lists 553 published books under this heading [1].

Novels

• Ron Hansen's historical fiction novel Hitler's Niece parallels Hitler's rise to power in the 1920s and 30s with his relationship with his niece (and secret mistress) Geli Raubal.
• In Philip K. Dick's alternate history novel, The Man in the High Castle, Hitler, after being stricken by the later stages of syphilis, was confined to a lunatic asylum shortly after WWII, and his place taken by Martin Bormann and, later, Joseph Goebbels and possibly Reinhard Heydrich.
• In the Settling Accounts tetralogy of Harry Turtledove's Timeline-191 series of alternate history novels, Hitler is still a sergeant in the German Army due to the German Empire's victory in World War I, but a character named Jake Featherston, the dictatorial President of the Confederate States of America, assumes a role similar to the real-life Hitler's.
• In the controversial novella The Portage to San Cristobal of A.H. by George Steiner Hitler survives the end of the war and escapes to the Amazon jungle -- where he is found and tried by Nazi-hunters thirty years later. Hitler's defence is that since Israel owes its existence to the Holocaust, he is really the benefactor of the Jews.

Theatre

• Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima wrote a play called My Friend Hitler (Tonari no Hitora), retelling the Night of the Long Knives.

• The Hungarian writer George Tabori wrote a comedy called Mein Kampf which portrayed Hitler as a poor young man who enters Vienna, wanting to become an artist.

Film

• In Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) is disguised as a German officer while trying to retrieve his father's Grail diary. Pushed backwards by the crowd, he bumps into Hitler (played by Michael Sheard), who, not recognizing the significance of the diary, signs his name in it, thinking the "officer" wanted his autograph.
• The thriller The Boys from Brazil (1978), starring Laurence Olivier and Gregory Peck centres around a plot by Nazi fugitives to clone Hitler.
• Molokh is a film from 1999 by Alexander Sokourov depicting 24 hours in Hitler's personal life. It won the Best Screenplay award that year in Cannes.
• There was also a science fiction film entitled They Saved Hitler's Brain, in which Hitler's mind is encased in a tank to continue the Nazi regime after the end of World War II.
• In Dragon Ball Z: Fusion Reborn Hitler escapes from Hell and attempts to take over a city. He is quickly subdued by Gotenks. He is referred to as "The Dictator" in the English dub.
• Hitler also appears in the movie Fullmetal Alchemist the Movie: Conqueror of Shamballa preparing for his first attempt to rise the Nazi movement to power. Of course it failed, because Eckhart plunder Amestris for her own needs instead of gaining extra weapons for him.

Television

• Heil Honey I'm Home! was a controversial 50s-styled British sitcom about Hitler and Eva Braun living in suburbia, with Jewish next door neighbors. Eight episodes were produced, but only one, the pilot, was ever broadcast (in 1990), as both television executives and the viewers alike thought the show in deplorably bad taste.
• The Twilight Zone included Hitler on several occasions. Among the more prominent were:
  • In "He's Alive," the ghost of Hitler tutors a neo-Nazi (Dennis Hopper) in rabble-rousing techniques.
  • In "The Man in the Bottle," a man (Luther Adler) who has been granted four wishes by a genie attempts to find a way to wish himself into a position of wealth and power as a head of state who cannot be voted out of office, only to find he is Hitler and it is the end of World War II, with an SS officer handing him a bottle of cyanide "for you and Miss Braun." Shaking in horror, the man quickly uses his final wish to be restored to normal. Adler had already played Hitler in two movies from 1951: The Magic Face and The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel.
  • In "No Time Like the Past," a time traveller (Dana Andrews) tries to alter the past in several ways, including an attempt to assassinate Hitler in 1939. He is thwarted when a suspicious maid brings the authorities to his hotel room. The episode features newsreel footage of the real Hitler.
  • In a similar fashion, an episode of the 2002 Twilight Zone entitled "Cradle of Darkness" features a time traveller (Katherine Heigl) going back in time to kill Hitler as an infant. The time traveller kidnaps the infant Hitler and leaps from a bridge, killing herself and the baby. A horrified housekeeper, who had witnessed the murder, does not tell Hitler's parents but rather bribes a homeless woman to sell her baby. The baby is then returned to the Hitler household where he takes the place of the murdered infant, growing up to become the Hitler that the world knew.
• A significant part of the South Park episode "The Passion of the Jew" revolves around Eric Cartman pretending to be Hitler (as he sees him as his idol, quoting in "Make Love, Not Warcraft"; "If you could go back in time and stop Hitler, you would right? I personally wouldn't because I think he was awesome but...") and also dressed like Hitler for Halloween in the episode "Pinkeye". Cartman also has a picture of Hitler in his attic seen in the episode "Major Boobage" and a fictional version of Hitler sings a Christmas song in "Mr. Hankey's Christmas Classics".
• An episode of the Mexican TV superhero comedy El Chapulin Colorado has the title hero encountering Hitler. According to this episode, Hitler's death was an accident caused when someone activated his bunker's self-destruct system. Both El Chapulin and Hitler were played by the same actor, series creator Roberto Gomez Bolaños.
• Hitler appears in the three-parter episode of Justice League entitled "The Savage Time," where he is overthrown and cryogenically frozen by Vandal Savage, Savage having learned of how to win the war from his future self. After Savage is defeated by the Justice League, Hitler is thawed and reinstated as Germany's dictator.
• Hilter [ sic ] features in a Monty Python sketch staying with his friends Ron (Ribbentrop) and Reg (Himmler) at a boarding house in Somerset being introduced to other guests by the landlady as they plot the reunification of Taunton and Minehead.

• In the animated series Code Monkeys, Hitler is cryogenically frozen and is kept secret by the Hitler Family, and the Gamevision crew is invited there because of the game that Dave makes. Dave and Black Steve accidentally unfreeze Hitler, and they torture him by urinating on him. Hitler is then killed.
• Hitler is also In the British sitcom Red Dwarf as a joke the intro of the episode boasts "This week starring Hitler..." One of the main characters travels back in time to have a fight with Hitler. He is also referenced in other episodes as Arnold Rimmer has calenders and books on world dictators. He is also one of the wax droids on the "bad" side of the Wax World in another episode.
• In the animated series Hey Arnold!, the title character's Grandpa Phil, a World War II veteran, recounts a time when he engaged Hitler in a wrestling match and emerged victorious. When Arnold expresses disbelief at the story, Grandpa Phil changes his story: "Wait a minute - that was Goebbels."
• In The Simpsons episode, The Curse of the Flying Hellfish it is revealed that Sgt. Abraham Simpson attempted to assassinate Hitler, but is thrawted after a tennis ball flying of a raquet alters his aim, resulting in Hitler's hat spinning, from the bullet but not hitting Hitler. In the episode Bart vs. Australia, it is suggested that Hitler is still alive, and living in Argentina, when Bart randomly makes a collect call to his car phone. Hitler, heading to his car, tries to get to his phone, but doesn't answer it in time, then exclaiming; "Ach! Das Wagen-phone ist ein... Nuisancephone!" a german officer rides past him on a bike and acknowledges him with "buenos-nochas Mein Führer."
• Futurama contains several references. In the episode A Clone of My Own, the Professor regards the public as being hypocritical for being in favor of saving Hitler's brain, but transplanting it into the body of a great white shark is "suddenly going too far". In the episode The Honking, Calculon claims Project Satan was built with the most evil parts of the most evil people's cars, including Hitler's steering wheel. In the episode I Dated a Robot, an in-universe episode of The Scary Door features a man who suddenly becomes Hitler, parodying the episode The Man in the Bottle of The Twilight Zone.
• In The Critic episode Dial 'M' for Mother, title character Jay Sherman is rated "worse than Hitler" by a test audience complete with members wondering if Hitler were "in a band."
• In the Australian sitcom DAAS Kapital, the Doug Anthony All Stars perform their song Mexican Hitler as one character hallucinates that he is a Mexican version of the Führer.

Video games

• The point and click adaptation of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade features an interactive meeting between the player and Adolf Hitler - the player can ask Hitler to give him an autograph on a book or a free pass, or can punch Hitler (which results in Indiana's death).
• The PC video game series Command & Conquer: Red Alert is based on an alternate reality in which world-renowned physicist Albert Einstein had traveled back in time and chronoshifted (or "deleted from time") Hitler before his rise to power. The resulting power vacuum led to the Soviet Union invading Europe with Joseph Stalin assuming a role very similar to Hitler's. Ironically the General who gives the player's orders in the FMA is a German general.
• The video game Wolfenstein 3D features Hitler as the third boss. He battles first wearing a mechanical battlesuit, then later carries two miniguns after the suit is heavily damaged.
• In the PC video game War Front: Turning Point, Hitler is killed in the early days of World War II. A new chancellor comes to power and under his rule, Operation Sealion succeeds and Nazi Germany successfully conquers Britain.
• In the Famicom Disk System game, Time Twist: Rekishi no Katasumi de..., chapter 3 takes place in 1944 at a concentration camp in Southern Germany during World War II and the extermination of Jews in Nazi Germany. Adolf Hitler appears in it as well.
• Hitler is the main antagonist of the game Operation Darkness
• The 2006 video game Snoopy vs. the Red Baron portrays Hitler as a sidekick for Paul von Hindenburg.
• Adolf Hitler also makes an appearance in the Playstation game Persona 2.
• In the Japanese version of the NES game Bionic Commando, the main character has to fight futuristic Nazis. The last boss of the game is Hitler, who is resurrected by evil scientists. In the US version of the game, the name of the boss was changed to Master-D, although he still resembles Hitler.
• Players can create and use "Hitler-like" Miis on the Nintendo Wii in certain games such as Wii Sports. However, Nintendo banned Hitler-like Miis, or Miis that are even named "Hitler", from playing online in Mario Kart Wii. The recent update on the Xbox 360 can have players create avatars that also can resemble Hitler. So far, Microsoft has not banned anyone from using Hitler-like avatars.
• The video game series Medal of Honor revolve around the events of World War I and World War II including Hitler in the opening sequence of Medal of Honor: Frontline.

Comics

• The New Adventures of Hitler by Grant Morrison and Steve Yeowell deals with the idea that Hitler stayed in Liverpool, based on rumors that he visited local family members like William Patrick Hitler.

• In DC Comics, the character known as Unknown Soldier kills Hitler, impersonates him for a short time, then pretends his death was a suicide.
• In DC Comics' Adventures of the Outsiders #33-35, a clone of Hitler is created by Baron Bedlam. Planning to give the clone the same persona as the original, Bedlam gives him a mentally retarded Jewish maid, several films of the Holocaust, and a handgun, Bedlam's intention being for the clone to embrace Nazism and ultimately murder the maid to "prove himself" as Hitler. However, the clone, realizing his connection to the atrocities he views, instead commits suicide.
• There is a well-known German satirical comic book Adolf, die Nazisau (Adolf, the Nazi pig), an absurd interpretation of Adolf Hitler in today's world, by Walter Moers.
• In Osamu Tezuka's manga Adolf, Hitler is one of the three men named Adolf around which the story revolves.
• In DC Comics' Elseworlds imprint, The Golden Age, Hitler's brain is successfully transplanted into the brain pan of Dyna-Mite. Now pretending to be a superhero called Dynaman, he plots in resurrecting Nazi ideals with the aid of the Ultra Humanite.
• In Marvel Comics the villain Hate-Monger is revealed to be the consciousness of Hitler transferred to a cloned body. Rather than committing suicide, he is confronted by the Human Torch and his sidekick Toro after Eva Braun commits suicide. The two heroes set Hitler ablaze as he attempts to set off a bomb. As he dies, he commands one of his loyal followers nearby to tell the world he had committed suicide.
• In the Spanish comic series Hitler (1978), published in Spain by Mercocomic and in France by Elvifrance, Hitler fakes his death by using a double, escapes Germany along with Martin Bormann (both disguised as Russian soldiers), then suffers from amnesia and, of all things, becomes an agent of the KGB with the mission of hunting down Nazis. Later on in the story, he recovers his memory and ends up in an asylum for the mentally disturbed.

• In the Mexican comic book series Fantômas, a multi-part storyline titled "The Son of Hitler" has the son of Hitler and Eva Braun raise a Fourth Reich that conquers France. He succeeds in capturing and torturing Fantomas, but he falls in love with Fantomas' Agent Taurus — a black woman.
• In the comic book The Savage Dragon by Erik Larsen (published by Image Comics), it is revealed that Hitler did not die in 1945, but after a fight against Hellboy in Romania in 1952. His body ruined, the brain is transplanted to the body of a large gorilla. Suffering amnesia and calling himself Brainiape, the chimera possesses great psionic powers and joins the Chicago, IL criminal organization known as the Vicious Circle, eventually becoming its leader. He remembers his past only in 1996 when he encounters Hellboy again, alongside the Vicious Circle's enemy, the policeman called Dragon. The ape body is killed, and it is revealed that Hitler's brain had mutated and could live unaided by any technology or host body, ambulatory on tiny legs.

• In Spriggan, Neo-Nazis use clones of Hitler in order to gain access to a hidden stash of ancient artifacts somewhere in Europe by using the Holy Grail in order for his soul to enter the clone and led the Neo-Nazi remnants to its locations.

Hitler in Music

• "Der Fuehrer's Face", an elaborate parody on Nazism created by musical comedian Spike Jones, is one of his most well-known tunes.
• A novelty rap song entitled "To Be or Not to Be (The Hitler Rap)" performed by Mel Brooks is on the movie To Be or Not to Be's soundtrack album, but it was not in the movie itself.
• The song "Gotterdammerung" by Stratovarius tells the history of Hitler and the Nazi regime.
• "Quicksand" from the LP Hunky Dory by David Bowie is a song about a heart-broken Nazi after Hitler's death.Template:Fact Bowie has also been quoted saying "Hitler was the first rock star" and, at one time, wanted to direct a film based on the life of Heinrich Himmler.
• "Hitler as Kalki" by apocalyptic folk band Current 93, which makes use of Savitri Devi's idea that Hitler was an avatar of the Hindu god Kalki.
• "Heads We're Dancing" by Kate Bush tells the story of a woman who dances all night with a charming stranger, only to discover the following morning that he is Adolf Hitler.
• "Two Little Hitlers" by Elvis Costello, a song about a loveless couple, on the album Armed Forces.
• Thrash metal group Flotsam and Jetsam recorded the song "Der Fuhrer" for their album Doomsday for the Deceiver. The song discusses the devastation Hitler caused in Europe.
• New York metal band Anthrax recorded the song "The Enemy" for their album Spreading the Disease. The song discusses Hitler's role in the Holocaust.
• Texas Groove metal band Pantera wrote and recorded a song called "By Demons Be Driven". It tells the story of how Hitler was plagued by paranoia and began to hate the Jewish people and religion.
• The video for the song The Fletcher Memorial Home on Pink Floyd's video EP The Final Cut contains several scenes of Hitler hiding and playing with a toy tank on a globe.
• Australian band TISM's debut single was Defecate on My Face, which was about Adolf Hitler's supposed coprophilia.
• Australian comedy troupe the Doug Anthony Allstars had a song called Mexican Hitler, which told the story of what Hitler would have been like if he was born Mexican. It made an appearance in their television show, DAAS Kapital.

Hitler as Internet Meme

Thanks to YouTube and other video sites, parodic clips from the 2004 film Downfall have proliferated internationally. They are subtitled with references to Hitler getting angry about Australian Rules Football, online gaming, gridiron football, X-Box Live, the downfall of Morris Iemma and other events - this meme is current in late 2008. The phenomenon started in English but has spread to other languages including Dutch, Malaysian and Bulgarian (It was used to ridicule Bulgarian president Georgi Parvanov for being a State Security agent during the communist dictatorship and for being a poacher). Some of the parodies turn on surrealism and intentional anachronisms to make a comment on present day issues, especially the everyday prevalance of failures of computer and internet resources, while other parodies centre more on humorously interpreting events in the bunker on April May 1945. A further driver of the jokes would be collective memories of the overall poor standards of subtitling and dubbing internationally in cinema during the mid twentieth century, especially with low budget films such as the sword and sandal genre, including poor synchonisation and comically inaccurate translations. The most popular clip is the scene where Hitler receives news of the advancing Red Army vastly outnumbering the forces commanded by Felix Steiner. However, other clips from Downfall are beginning to appear with subtitles.

Other

• One of the more unusual late works of Salvador Dalí was Hitler Masturbating (1973), depicting just that in the center of a desolate landscape. Dali also painted The Enigma of Hitler (1939) and Metamorphosis of the Face of Hitler into a Moonlit Landscape (1958).
• Forged journals of Hitler, known as the Hitler Diaries, were published in Germany by the magazine Stern in 1983.
• "Adolph Hitler" was the name of Linda Lovelace's cat.
• Third Reich & Roll is a 1976 album by the U.S. avant-garde pop group The Residents.
• A feline version of Hitler appears on posters in the comic strip Maus.
• In Robot Chicken, Hitler is a frequent character in jokes.
• In a satirical routine on one edition of The Daily Show, Stephen Colbert tells Jon Stewart his name is actually Ted Hitler, and that Adolf Hitler is his grandfather.
• The website CatsThatLookLikeHitler.com features pictures of cats that bear some resemblance to the German leader.
• Warner Bros. produced wartime cartoons which constantly parodied Hitler and his personality traits and quirks. Most (if not all) cartoons with Hitler and the Nazis as the antagonists ended up with the American hero cartoon character (such as Bugs Bunny or Daffy Duck) making a mockery out of Hitler and his people.
• Godwin's Law states that "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one."
• In the BBC comedy Bottom one of the main characters was named "Edward Elizabeth Hitler". When asked if he was any relation to Adolf Hitler, Eddie replied on one occasion that Adolf Hitler had been his mother.

General References

• Faschismus in der populären Kultur [Fascism in popular culture] by Georg Seesslen Berlin : Edition Tiamat, 1994-1996. ISBN 3923118244, OCLC: 80476144
• The world Hitler never made : alternate history and the memory of Nazism by Gavriel David Rosenfeld. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005. ISBN 0521847060 OCLC: 58052431
• Hitler's imagery and German youth by Erik H Erikson; Berkeley, Calif. : Institute of Child Welfare, University of California, 1940-1950? OCLC: 26533155