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Mike, ams511, etc.,
First, did you notice that Hitler in this flick had HPNS? It's probably from too much deep diving on hydrogen (the Nazis did not have access to helium).
So far as making a joke, I'm curious what the German translation of what they were actually saying was, and whether it matched the English subtitles. I rather doubt it. It may also have violated some copyrights.
On the surface, this is funny. But this production, unlike MASH or Hogan's Heros where there is a much deeper satire in those than is evidenced here, this is surface-only material (yes, I'm vintage enough to have watched these as they came out). Now, I did not say I was offended, I stated it was inappropriate. There's a big difference. This was a cheap, quick job done on the fly, which trivialized the real nature of the Nazi regime. If you substitute Pol Pot, it is no longer funny. That is a test I make for these kinds of things. Knowing people who are here from Cambodia makes this analogy more real to me. We have one person on this board who originated in Germany, and he said it best that this trivializes what happened to the victims of the Nazi's, whether they be from the Holocaust or from POW camps.
SeaRat
