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Is there adoration for Hilter these days? The hilter videos are crazy popular and this a cutesy drawing of man who massacred thousands; marched thousands of innocent people into gas chambers and terminated them.

He seems to have become more hero then villan these past few years!



It's an interesting question. Before and during WWII, it was very popular to mock Hitler, because of the general over-the-top pompousness of his oratorical style and public image. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Dictator, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_Fuehrers_Face) Afterwards, the general attitude was one of somber, shocked horror. I'm not overly bothered by the fact that people have gone back to laughing at Hitler. I don't think people have forgotten the gravity of his crimes so much as they've become willing to use that as a backdrop for juxtaposition.


It's just another manifestation of acute tastelessness, which seems to be the predominant theme in mass entertainment these days.




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