"Springtime For Hitler" - '67 - HQ

Mel's Brooks' absurdly tasteless classic. Two footnotes: the second soldier is voiced by Mel - and Bialystok is a city in Poland where thousands of Jews were brutally exterminated by the Nazis. Makes you think, doesn't it?

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[aplantage]

This wasn't shown on German TV until relatively recently. I must admit that I had some difficulty with it, even though it is deliberately tasteless even within the fiction. But the Swedish secretary ("Go to work!") made me smile, and the Busby Berkeley Hakenkreuz had me in stitches.

[davidwrightatloppers]

@aplantage After 66 years, we have to forget the past - otherwise, as a Brit, I would avoid holidaying in Paris because of the problems we had with NAPOLEON!

But it is interesting to note that this film was made (by a Jewish man) only 22 years after WW2. Thus it was pretty cutting-edge for that time.

Sadly, I STILL have to have this piece set to "comments must be approved" - because you may still get that ONE berk who, even AFTER 66 years - just CANNOT forget...

[aplantage]

@davidwrightatloppers I'm not for forgetting entirely, because otherwise one can't learn from history. It's how to live with the past that is the question.

[davidwrightatloppers]

@aplantage Oh sure. I didn't mean the past should be forgotten and NOT LEARNED FROM (let's face it - Britain was hardly whiter-than-white during WW2) - just that it should be discussed REASONABLY. And on YouTube, you do get the occasional TROLL, who does not understand the meaning of the word "reasonably" - which is why I VET comments on this particular piece!

[fingersniff666]

@aplantage It's only good to remember if you don't become the bully

[nixecola]

@davidwrightatloppers i'm 16 now so i barley have much to do with world war 2 or the nazi time but we're thought that anything from that time and hitler is horrible. People have to forget. but understand as well

[Anarquius]

Humor is necessary, even to stand the horror. We have to celebrate the life, not to forget , in order to last .

[Hermeto77]

ahaha, freaking hillarious Mel Brooks. man he's craaaazy!