"The Bunker" - Adolf Hitler animated cartoon

Hitler cartoons have Germans in turmoil. I guess there'll be flag-burning and bombs next.

Quoting IOL news:

Turmoil? Where's the turmoil? A couple cow-orkers sent me the link yesterday. It's funny, straight through to the end of the credits.

Der Bonker



Every German I've talked to so far feels pretty much the way I do, namely that it's OK to parody Hitler, to take the piss, to remove some of his aura and mystique, and to continue climbing out from 60 years' worth of national guilt. It's almost four generations ago.

For comparison, Hogan's Heroes started its seven-year run only 20 years after the war, and anyone who'd been in a POW camp can tell you there was nothing funny about being there. If that's not enough for you, the people who played Klink, Burkhalter, Schulz and LeBeau were all Jews who'd fled Germany, the latter three having spent time in concentration camps. The show was still funny.

It's time to finish deflating the Hitler myth. Is Moers trying to be controversial? Sure, it's good for business. But at the same time it's good for Germany and German morale.

woof.

agree with BD, in all the time i've been involved in germany and with germans i've always been amazed at the difference between public ie media and comedians and such and private peoples characterisation of hitler. the austrians seem to have a mush easier time of putting this silly little vegetarian into his place. by placing and keeping him on a "holy" plinth there is a danger that just like napoleon he will be admired later as an evil but brilliant genius.

Hold the phone!!! The Germans are taking a joke seriously??? Say it isn't so!!!

BD and gideon's post speak my mind.

i rented "The Producers" the other day and nearly shit my pants at the parody of hitler. he was a snivelling weany. we don't deny what he's done, but yeah, no need to keep him on an artificial pedastal.

that video was very cute!

Thanks for sharing!

Someone I knew spent 5 years in Buchenwald concentration camp... and he often makes jokes about Hitler and the war. I always suspected for him, that humour was his only means of dealing with such a traumatic experience.

And he also makes jokes about the communists... mainly because after liberation, the russians didnt release him from Buchenwald for another 2 years

in America we make fun of him all the time.. how about Mel Brooks' Hitler on ice?? or gay Hitler on SNL?? of course then again he didn't reduce our major cities to rubble..

Isn't Charlie Chapmans spoof on Hitler in the top 50 films recommended by Suddeutschlands Zeitung?

I didn't think it was funny, but not because of the subject (Hitler) but because I don't like that "Werner" or "Kleines Arschloch" style of humor.

The BBC Series "Allo Allo" was sold and broadcast and enjoyed all over Europe except in...

totally agreed.
it is Moers you gotta love him.

Cannot bloody edit it, but Tracey Chaplin would have had a laugh.

Funny you should say that. The chairman of the German printing company I used to work for in Augsburg was one of the biggest Allo Allo fans ever..

Oh, and the cartoon is just not funny at all. Not complaining about the subject matter but more the fact that it lacks any comedy.

some german comedians do make jokes about Adolf. There´s also this turkish bloke I´ve seen on telly who parodies the voice. And he´s allowed to do it.

This is ridiculous / hilarious.
No German I know of (incl. media) was offended / upset by this.
Some liked it. Some didn't. Lots never took notice at all.

The "Kleines Arschloch" cartoons about Hitler have been around for ages. If there ever was a controversy about them (that would have been the 1980s) I missed it.

What is scary to me: How the rumour is spread (though not very efficiently, but still) that Germans are getting hot under the collar about something as ridiculous as this and how that rumour might be believed by people outside Germany who do not know any better.

Makes you take headlines like "(enter possibly but not really controversial topic) has (enter nationality) hot under the collar" with a grain of salt.

hahaa I remember seein gay Hitler on SNL for the first time and didn't stop laughing for like 5 minutes...'Sprachen Sie dick?' hahaaa chris kattan, what a funny bastard

As far as I know there was one episode of Fawlty Towers that was not shown in Germany (guess which one?)