* The 1981 television film ''[[The Bunker (1981 film)|The Bunker]]'' starring [[Anthony Hopkins]] portrays Hitler's last days.
* The 1981 television film ''[[The Bunker (1981 film)|The Bunker]]'' starring [[Anthony Hopkins]] portrays Hitler's last days.
*The 2002 film ''[[Max (film)|Max]]'' stars [[Noah Taylor]] as Hitler during his days as a failed artist in [[Vienna]] 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 2002 film ''[[Max (film)|Max]]'' stars [[Noah Taylor]] as Hitler during his days as a failed artist in [[Vienna]] 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.)
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 Chicagoracketeer in the cauliflower trade, is ruthlessly satirised. Brecht, who was German but left during the Nazi period, also expressed his opposition to the National Socialist and Fascist movements in other of his most famous plays.
Other examples:
Several Three Stoogesshorts, the first being You Nazty Spy (1940) in which the boys 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. In other Three Stooges shorts, Hitler is referred to as "Schicklgruber" in reference to his father Alois Hitler's birth name.
Hitler was caricatured in numerous animated shorts during World War II, including Der Fuehrer's Face, a 1943Disney 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.
Hitler has been known by many nicknames, including Awful Adolf and The Beast of Berlin. In the USSR he had a nickname Asshole with mustache. [citation needed]
Whenever Hitler is portrayed in an old or modern piece of movie or other media, artists prefer to let the caricature speak in an odd and over-toned way, to parody Hitler's infamous style of speech, in a language that is somewhat similar to German in sound, but nevertheless a random mixture of rubbish. Of course, this is easier than to think of correct German sentences and gives Hitler's character the aggressive and ridiculously shouting speech that wasn't even normal to the German people during his lifetime (see Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator).
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.
The final days of Hitler's life have been turned into a German film, Der Untergang (2004) starring Bruno Ganz as the dictator. The stated intention of the director was to portray Hitler's "human side", which garnered a certain amount of criticism.
The 2002 film Max stars Noah Taylor as Hitler during his days as a failed artist in Vienna 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.)
EVIL!!! >:P =/ ;)
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 killed by Jahmar Baron and Ritch Tenor who had captured him.
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.
A 1973 film, Hitler: The Last Ten Days starred Alec Guinness as Hitler and chronicles the final events in the bunker. In 2004 a German film Der Untergang (English title: Downfall) starring Bruno Ganz as Hitler covered the same events with much greater historical accuracy.
Hitler in fiction
WorldCat lists 553 published books under this heading [1].
In Philippe van Rjndt 's 1978 novel, The Trial of Adolf Hitler, Hitler survives the suicide attempt (Eva Braun does not), assumes the identity of a murdered Home Guard soldier, Werner Busse, flees into the war-torn countryside and settles in a Bavarian village, where he lives undetected under Busse's name for 25 years. At this time, in his 80s, he decides to reveal his existence to the world and is put on trial in a globally-televised tribunal at the United Nations (using the exposure to lay the foundation for the rise of a Fourth Reich).
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.
Hitler, The Struggling Artist as a stage play: A conceptual form of this play was privately showcased in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. http://www.angelfire.com/planet/adolphplay It depicts Adolf Hitler selling his wares and lecturing onlookers on the power of the arts. Portraying Hitler, actorBill Breuer apparently created an astonishingly accurate look alike and vocal reproduction using a Bavarian/Austrian accent for speaking the English lines.
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 Two.
Heil Honey I'm Home! was a controversial 50s-styled British sitcom about Hitler and Eva Braun living in suburbia, with next door neighbors who were Jewish. 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 "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 2002Twilight 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 Hitler baby and leaps from a bridge, killing herself and the baby. A horrified housekeeper, who had witnessed the murder of the baby Hitler, 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.
Hitler is a frequent object of satire on the animated comedy series Family Guy and The Simpsons.
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. Note that 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[2][3].
Video games
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 the World War II. A new chancellor comes to power and under his rule, Operation Sealion succeeds and Nazi Germany successfully conquers Britain.
Adolf Hitler also makes an appearance in the Playstation game Persona 2.
In the Japanese version of the game Bionic Commando, the main character has to fight futuristic Nazis. The last boss of the game is Hitler, who was 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.
In DC Comics, the character known as the Unknown Soldier killed Hitler, impersonated him for a short time, then pretended 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 was 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 was revealed to be the consciousness of Hitler transferred to a cloned body. Rather than committing suicide, he was confronted by the Human Torch and his sidekick Toro after Eva Braun had committed suicide. The two heroes set Hitler ablaze as he attempted to set off a bomb. As he died, he commanded one of his loyal followers nearby to tell the world he had committed suicide.
The Spanish comic series Hitler (1978), published in Spain by Mercocomic and in France by Elvifrance, is a fictional story in which 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.[4]
In Fantômas' Mexican comic book series, a multi-part storyline titled "The Son of Hitler" had the son of Hitler and Eva Brown raise a Fourth Reich that conquers France. He succeeds in capturing and torturing Fantomas, however 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 was transplanted to the body of a large gorilla. Suffering amnesia and calling himself Brainiape, the chimera possessed great psionic powers and joined the Chicago, IL criminal organization known as the Vicious Circle, eventually becoming its leader. He remembered his past only in 1996 when he encountered Hellboy again, alongside the Vicious Circle's enemy, the policeman called Dragon. The ape body was 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.[5]
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.
The song "Crystal Night" by Masterplan tells the history of Crystal Night when the Nazis destroyed many shops and commerce of Jews. The song calls Hitler a liar and a fool.
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, however it was not in the movie itself.
The song "Gotterdammerung" by Stratovarius tells the history of Hitler and his actions in Second World War.
"Quicksand" from the LP Hunky Dory by David Bowie is a song about a heart-broken Nazi after the death of Hitler. 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 Himmler.
"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 was Adolf Hitler.
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.
The website CatsThatLookLikeHitler.com features pictures of cute felines that bear an uncanny 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. In another episode, a man jokingly asks, "Any relation?" and Eddie grins manically and replies, "Yes". He also remarks, while hitting himself over the head with a glass, that "If it's stupidity you're after, there's no one stupider than the Hitlers."
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
