Hitler in popular culture

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Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889–30 April 1945) was the Führer of the National Socialist German Workers' Party and of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945.

[edit] How Hitler was represented during his lifetime

Numerous works in popular music and literature feature Adolf Hitler prominently. Before and during World War II, Hitler was often depicted inside of Germany as a God-like figure who was loved and respected by the German people (e.g. Triumph of the Will, which Hitler co-produced), but outside of Germany often treated as an object of derision. Later works continued the latter trend. Examples include:

• The movie Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse (The Testament of Dr. Mabuse) (1933) 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 Chicago racketeer in the cauliflower trade, is ruthlessly satirised.
• Several Three Stooges shorts, 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.
• Charlie Chaplin made fun of Hitler as "Adenoid Hynkel," the dictator of Tomania in his 1940 movie The Great Dictator.
• In Ernst Lubitsch's 1942 movie To Be or Not to Be (as well as in Mel Brooks' remake in 1983), an actor from a Polish stage group imitates Hitler to enable the escape of the troupe to England
• Hitler was caricatured in numerous animated shorts during World War II, including Der Fuehrer's Face, a 1943 Disney wartime propaganda cartoon featuring Donald Duck, and Herr Meets Hare with Bugs Bunny.
• 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).
• 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.
• In the opening scenes of Citizen Kane (1941), Charles Foster Kane is described and shown as supporting, then denouncing Hitler.
• Several comic book superheroes battled Hitler directly or indirectly in comics published during World War II. Superheroes that combated Hitler include Superman, Captain America, The Shield, and Namor the Sub-Mariner. Captain America's archenemy, Red Skull, was established as being an apprentice to Hitler himself.
• Mocking satirical folk songs such as "Stalin Wasn't Stallin'", or new lyrics to old songs, such as "Hitler Has Only Got One Ball" (to the tune of the "Colonel Bogey March").
• Hitler has been known by many nicknames, including Awful Adolf and The Beast of Berlin.
• 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).

[edit] 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 current threat, has meant that the way he is depicted in popular culture has changed since 1945 as a sinister and diabolical figure.

• Mel Brooks' comedy The Producers featured a satirical play-within-a-play called Springtime for Hitler, featuring dancing Nazis and songs about the conquest of Europe. Brooks' later comedy, History of the World, Part I, featured "Hitler on Ice."
• 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 television miniseries Hitler: The Rise of Evil stars Robert Carlyle in the title role and depicts Hitler's life from childhood through his appointment as Chancellor of Germany in 1933.
• Episode 12 of the first series of Monty Python's Flying Circus featured a brief sketch in which "Mr. Hilter" (played by John Cleese) is residing in a British bed and breakfast and is running for Parliament in North Minehead [1] as a candidate for the "National Bocialist Party". Hilter is joined by "Heinrich Bimmler" (played by Michael Palin) and "Ron Vibbentrop" (played by Graham Chapman). The three Nazis clumsily struggle to hide their former identities.
• The film "The Bunker" starring Anthony Hopkins portrays Hitler's last days.
• 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.)
• Mexican comedian, Chespirito, played Hitler in the vein of Chaplin's The Great Dictator in an episode of El Chapulin Colorado.

[edit] 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 the head of the squad which had captured him.

• In the British science fiction show The Tomorrow People, Hitler is revealed to have been a shapeshifting alien who was frozen by cryonics at the end of World War II. He emerges in the 1970s and attempts to take control of the world through mind control of young people. An earlier episode of The Tomorrow People gave reference that Hitler was a time traveler, although this contradicted the information in the later episode which revealed him to be an alien.

• 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 liter 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.

• The bizarre 1968 TV movie They Saved Hitler's Brain. Hitler's death is faked with a double, and his living head smuggled out of Berlin in a jar, where it plans a Nazi takeover from South America.

• In Marvel Comics, Hitler didn't commit suicide. Rather, 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. He would later reappear as the Hate-Monger (see below).

[edit] Hitler in fiction

In The Twilight Zone, a man wishes to be the ruler of a contemporary country who cannot be voted out of office—and finds he is Hitler and it is the conclusion of World War II.

[edit] Novels

• The novella The Portage to San Cristobal of A.H. by George Steiner features an elderly Hitler discovered living in the rainforests of the Amazon.
• Robert Harris's novel Fatherland briefly features Hitler, and also other prominent Nazis such as Odilo Globocnik.
• Ron Hansen's historical fiction novel Hitler's Niece parallels Hitler's rise to power in the 1920s and 30s with his relationship with his niece (and secret mistress) Geli Raubal.
• Rodney Hall's novel The Day We Had Hitler Home set at the end of the First World War has a gas-blinded Adolf Hitler joining the wrong queue at a field ambulance station. He is accidentally escorted to Australia, ends up in a remote fishing village and changes the life of a woman he meets before he returns to Germany.
• In Phillip K. Dick's alternate history novel, The Man in the High Castle, Hitler, after being stricken by the later stages of syphilis, was confined to a lunatic asylum shortly after WWII, and his place taken by Martin Bormann and, later, Joseph Goebbels and possibly Reinhard Heydrich.
• The short story "How I lost the Second World War and helped turn back the German invasion" by Gene Wolfe shows Hitler in terms of a car salesman.
• In Jon Stewart's book, Naked Pictures of Famous People, Hitler is featured with Larry King in a chapter where a reformed Hitler is interviewed by Larry King about his past and future.
• In the Doctor Who novel The Shadow in the Glass it is revealed that Eva Braun did not actually die in the bunker, but was smuggled out of the country due to her being pregnant with Hitler's child. Using alien technology that he believes to be a scrying glass powered by spirits, Hitler's son creates the Fourth Reich, intending to wage war on the world. However, he is confronted by the Sixth Doctor and Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, who uncovers the truth. He forces the Doctor to take him back in time to meet his father, but Hitler believes that his 'son' is simply a madman, and shoots him in the head.
• In the Greg Isles novel Spandau Phoenix, Hitler's brain has been cryogenically preserved. His loyal followers, including Rudolf Hess (whose double may inhabit his cell in Spandau Prison), have plotted to implant the brain into a new host body.
• In The Iron Dream, Hitler emigrates to America in 1919 and becomes a science fiction illustrator, editor and author.
• In Mark E. Rodgers's Samurai Cat series of books, the titular hero Miaowara Tomokato meets Hitler and Josef Stalin in an actual ice palace in the Soviet Union, in the 1950s. There the two dictators mention the real purpose of World War II, and Tomokato fights them.
• In Alastair Reynolds' novel Century Rain, an alternate Earth exists, in which Hitler (not mentioned by name, but enough description given for the reader to know), has survived until 1959 in Paris after the failed invasion of France. He is in a wheelchair, suffers from probable Parkinson's disease, and looks very ill. It is also stated that there were rumors of his bouts with cancer and several surgeries.
• In the Animorphs novel Elfangor's Secret, after an alien being distorts Earth's history, the events of World War II change so that Hitler was nothing more than a general's chauffeur and not Germany's leader.
• In Hans Alfredson's alternate history novel Attentatet i Pålsjö skog a group of Swedish communists blow up a German train passing trough Sweden. Eva Braun was onboard the train and was killed making Hitler furious and invades Sweden.
• In the Settling Accounts tetralogy of Harry Turtledove's Timeline-191 series of alternate history novels, Hitler is still a sergeant in the German Army due to the German Empire's victory in World War I, but a character named Jake Featherston, the dictatorial President of the Confederate States of America, is a parallel to the real-life Hitler.

[edit] Theatre

• Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima wrote a play called My Friend Hitler (Tonari no Hitora), retelling the night of the long knives purge of Ernst Röhm and others in 1964.

• 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: First performed in Louisville, KY, USA. http://www.angelfire.com/planet/adolphplay. It depicts Adolf Hitler selling his wares and lecturing onlookers on the power of the arts.

[edit] Film

• In the comedy movie The Fuhrer runs amok by Philippe Clair, Henri Tisot stars as Hitler who challenges other European countries in soccer matches.
• In the twelfth Dragonball Z movie, a brief exchange involves a revived Hitler attempting to overrun a city before he is killed uncerimoniously by Gotenks, when he sees Super Saiyan Goten and Trunks (giving them both blonde hair and blue eyes) he is heard saying "Blonde hair and blue eyes...we should be recruiting them".
• Little Nicky, a movie starring Adam Sandler, portrayed Hitler in Hell dressed in a French maid dress. His eternal punishment is being sodomized with pineapples.
• In the 2003 comedy film Eurotrip, a young German boy dons a false moustache and boots and commences marching around his apartment with his right arm raised.
• In Fullmetal Alchemist the Movie: Conqueror of Shamballa, Hitler is seen during the Beer Hall Putsch in Munich though the story ends shortly after the Putsch fails.
• In Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Indiana accidentally bumps into Hitler at a book burning event. Hitler then signs Indy's dad's diary.
• In the 2001 comedy film Rat Race, Jon Lovitz' character steals Hitler's Mercedes-Benz after his Ford Aerostar gets sabotaged by rivals. When asked by his son why he did it, Lovitz responded, "Hitler had it coming, what goes around comes around!" He later crashed it into a World War II veterans festival. Leading up to the accident, he smears off some black lipstick his character's wife had put on onto the steering wheel, giving him a Hitler-like moustache after they crashed into the festival and his face hits the steering wheel. Also before the accident, the car's cigarette lighter slips and lands on his tongue, mumbling his speech. After the accident, exits the car and attempts to talk to the crowd, but his injured tongue makes him sound German. This, along with his 'moustache', result in boos from the audience members, and even a gunshot from a rather old and toothless viewer.
• In Hitler's Daughter (1990), it is revealed that the woman who is the runningmate for the man who is likely to be the next President of the United States, is in reality Hitler's illegitimate daughter. In one scene, she meets with her father (face never shown on screen) to discuss how the plan is progressing. This film is rooted in the theory that Hitler was not dead.
• In Hitlar (1980) Hitler escaped Germany and settled in Pakistan where he had a son, Hitlar. [2]
• In Borat! Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan when the title character disembarks in Los Angeles to find Pamela Anderson, he finds his producer Azamat dressed as Oliver Hardy, but Borat states that he looked like Hitler.

[edit] Television

• Heil Honey I'm Home! was a controversial 50s-styled sitcom about Hitler and Eva Braun living in suburbia. Eight episodes were produced, but only one, the pilot, was ever broadcast.
• In an Astro Boy manga episode, Astro Boy is confronted to an European country where the dictator is called Hitlini (an obvious mix of "Hitler" and "Mussolini") and looks just like a caricature of Hitler, wearing a bow tie.
• Hitler has been featured in numerous episodes of The Simpsons.
  • In Bart vs. Australia, Bart is telephoning various locations in the Southern Hemisphere and phones an aged Hitler (the scene satirizes the false rumours about Hitler escaping to South America after the end of World War II instead of committing suicide in his Berlin bunker).
  • In Rosebud, where the history of Mr. Burns' teddy bear Bobo is revealed, Hitler is shown picking up Bobo in Paris. Later, in his Berlin bunker, he curses the bear as soviet forces lay siege to the city.
  • In Curse of the Flying Hellfish, Grandpa Simpson talks of his service in World War II, and is shown nearly assassinating Hitler with a sniper rifle, only to have his shot interrupted by an errant tennis ball from Mr. Burns.
  • In Whacking Day, Grampa tells of how he was separated from his army unit after parachuting into Düsseldorf, only to spend the rest of the war posing as a cabaret singer. He is shown, in drag, performing for Hitler and a figure resembling Mussolini.
  • In Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie, Bart and Lisa watch a WW2 propaganda movie, where Hitler heils, is beaten up by Itchy and Scratchy, gets the head cut off by Itchy, Itchy and Scratchy shake hands and Itchy cuts then the head of Scratchy, followed by Roosevelt kicking both Hitler and Scratchy in the butt.
  • In All's Fair in Oven War, while looking at the Ovenfresh Bakeoff cardboard advertisement at the Kwik-E-Mart, Marge imagines either herself (if she wins) or Hitler to be the new Auntie Ovenfresh.
  • In Bart Carny, although Hitler isn't shown in the episode, the Rich Texan is showcasing what he claims to be Hitler's limousine at the carnival that the Simpsons are attending. Bart later takes a joyride in the car (and pretends to be Hitler) and crashes it into a tree, and afterwards Nelson punches Bart in the stomach, asking him "What did Hitler ever do to you?".
  • In Marge Be Not Proud, when Bart is about to shoplift a video game, there is one titled Save Hitler's brain.
  • In Moe'N'a Lisa, Grampa Simpson remembers going to the 1936 Summer Olympics, where he saved Hitler from being assassinated (which is ironic if one considers the "Flying Hellfish" example above).
  • In "Revenge is a Dish Best Served Three Times,there is a Hitler poster holding a book saying "Before I was a Nazi Leader, I was a Nazi Reader!"

• In a Monty Python sketch Hitler, appearing as Mr. Hilter, runs for the regional elections in Minehead.
• In Fawlty Towers Basil Fawlty imitates Hitler to 'cheer up' a German guest by doing the Nazi salute and goosestepping around the room.
• In the Alfred J. Kwak cartoons series a crow called Dolf carries strong resemblances to Hitler. Dolf leads the Crow's Party.
• Family Guy also has had several gags involving Hitler. In the pilot, Hitler is working out at Das Gym and casting envious looks at the better-built Jewish weightlifters. In "Death Is a Bitch", a dream sequence shows him hosting a daytime talk show called 'Hitler' and fawning over American actor Christian Slater (his voiceover says at the end of the show: "if you're going to be in the Los Angeles area und would like tickets to 'Hitler', call 213 DU WERNEST EINE KRACKENSCHWESTER BRAUCHEN!!!"). In "8 Simple Rules for Buying My Teenage Daughter", he is shown playfully attempting simultaneous suicides with Eva Braun in their bunker. Most recently, in "Untitled Griffin Family History," Peter refers to his great uncle who was Hilter's half-brother. This character, which looks like Peter, irrates Hitler with constant interruptions and questions. Then he tells a rally that the beers are on Hitler.
• The Twilight Zone included Hitler on several occasions. Among the more prominent were:
  • In "He's Alive", Hitler tutors a neo-Nazi in rabble-rousing techniques.
  • In "The Man in the Bottle", a man who has been granted three wishes by a genie attempts to find a way to wish himself into a position of wealth and power 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 withdraws the wish and restored to normal.
  • In "No Time Like the Past", a scientist goes back in time to assassinate Hitler during a speech. He rents a room facing the venue where Hitler is speaking, but the maid becomes suspicious of his apparent lack of enthusiasm and the SS arrive only to find the scientist has left.
  • In a similar fashion, an episode of the 2002 Twilight Zone features a time traveler going back in time to kill Hitler as an infant. The time traveler 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 Jewish 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.
• An episode of Seinfeld featured Elaine's boss, Mr. Pitt, dressed in a tan horseriding uniform; he accidentally smeared a bit of ink on his upper lip before giving an impassioned speech. Already resembling Hitler physically, Pitt completed the image by raising his right arm and pronouncing "high" as "heil" in the speech.
• Giren Zabi, the primary villain of the sci-fi anime "Mobile Suit Gundam", is considered a close parallel to Hitler while most of the series parallels World War II as a whole. Giren espouses the belief that space colonists are genetically superior to Earthlings, and says that Earth must be purged for humanity to truly evolve. Giren is also quite ruthless, all too willing to kill anyone who gets in his way, including his own father. To further cement the allegory, his father questions his methods, referring to Giren as "Hitler's Tail" (though this is changed to "a follower of fascism" in the English version, presumably to avoid offending viewers).
• British puppet show Spitting Image featured a sketch about Hitler on "vacation", i.e., going around Europe in "the family Panzer" whilst annexing every country he comes across.
• Hitler has appeared in a number of sketches on the BBC comedy show Dead Ringers, including one sketch in which he is portrayed as briefly hosting Top of the Pops, boasting the show would contain the greatest hits to appear in the "Reich" for a thousand years. Another sketch depicted him in purported deleted scenes from Downfall in which he is joined in the bunker by Tony Blair.
• In the South Park episode Passion of the Jew, Hitler appears as an alter-ego to Cartman who donned a Hitler uniform when he organized the Passion of the Christ fan club. After that, Cartman leads the citizens of South Park on a march where he commands them to repeat the phrase "Wir müssen die Juden ausrotten" ("We must exterminate the Jews"). Nobody in South Park speaks German, so they think Cartman is speaking Aramaic, "God's language", and start following Cartman believing they're expressing their approval towards the movie. In another episode, Pinkeye, Cartman is costumed as Hitler for Halloween, constantly repeating "Sieg Heil!" before his Hitler costume was replaced by Principal Victoria with a Ku Klux Klan vesture. In another episode, "Mr. Hankey's Christmas Classics," Hitler, with a photo-realistic head, appears in hell singing a mournful rendition of "O Tannenbaum." In a more recent episode, "Make Love, Not Warcraft," Cartman admits that he thinks what Hitler did was "awesome" and, given the chance, would not stop him from his extermination of the Jews. Also in South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut while Kenny is sent to hell, one of the demons who is tormenting him has the face of Hitler. In the Hell on Earth 2006 episode, Hitler appears on the Satan's party disguised as the can you hear me now guy.
• In an episode of Chappelle's Show, the Player Haters use a time-traveling automobile to travel to Germany during a year when Hitler was still in power and beat him up in his office.
• In Mr. Show episode "Life Is Precious and God and The Bible" a scene called "Cloning Hitler" is included. In it, clones of Hitler are created by the Committee for Holocaust Reparations with the intention of living a life of servitude to Holocaust survivors. They are generally subjected to many humiliating tasks and complain that they cannot get dates with women when it is discovered that they are Hitler clones. In the rare event that a Hitler clone outlives his master he is allowed a life of freedom. One such aged Hitler clone is shown living a typically mundane life, clipping coupons and watching daytime television. On his wall are various invasion-strategy maps.
• In the Red Dwarf episode "Meltdown", A wax-droid version of Hitler is shown to be the leader of the evil wax-droid army. He is accompanied by wax-droid versions of Goerring and Goebels. The Hitler-droid is later shot and killed by the wax-droid version of Queen Victoria.
• In the Red Dwarf episode "Timeslides" Lister goes back in time to one of Hitler's speeches and steals his briefcase. Furthermore, Lister appears on the huge stage and Nurenberg at a massive Nazi rally. He shouts to the crowd "No, don't listern to him. He's a total nutter, and he's got only one testicle".
• In an episode of Histeria! based around World War II, Hitler was featured as a demon.
• In 'Allo 'Allo!, Hitler is frequently mentioned. Herr Flick often suspects General Von Klinkerhoffen and Colonel Von Strohm to be involved with plots to blow up Hitler. One time, Herr Flick is seen talking to Hitler on the telephone. At one stage, two doubles of Hitler and Herman Göring arrive in Nouvion, and when they are killed by accident, Colonel Von Strohm and Lieutenant Gruber must dress up as them.
• One episode of Robot Chicken has various short sketches involving "Little Hitler", featuring a young Hitler in a classroom taking over other children's desks. A sketch in another episode features Hitler in Heaven, noting he's "just as surprised as you are."
• In the Mighty Boosh episode "Nanageddon," main characters Howard and Vince exclaim that they summoned Hitler, played Pictionary with him and he was "rubbish" and that Howard "did a shit on him."
• In an episode of the American version of Whose Line Is It Anyway? for the game Title Sequence, Drew Carey chose Bill Cosby and Hitler as two unlikely roommates to have a show about them. The director marched into view and demanded it be changed. The game was changed to Bill Cosby and the insurance salesman. For the rest of the game, the cast continued to insert references to Hitler, even when it made no sense.
• In an episode of Pokémon called "The Legend of Dratini", Meowth dresses exactly like Hitler, even wearing a Hitler moustache
• In an episode of the cult cartoon sitcom "Mission Hill", Andy attemps to bug Kevin by telling him that "Hitler called and he wants his haircut back!". He proceeds to put his finger beneeth his nose, rases his right arm in Nazi Salute, and marches back and forth shouting "I vant my haircut back! I vant my haircut back!"

[edit] Video games

Armored Hitler in Wolfenstein 3D

• The PC video game Wolfenstein 3D featured a heavily-armored Hitler as its third episode's final boss.
• 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 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.
• In the video game Titanic: Adventure Out of Time one objective of the player's character, a British spy, is to recover stolen invasion plans being smuggled on the doomed ship. Not only do the recovered plans prevent WW1 from occurring, but the painting they were hidden in becomes famed as one of the few artifacts recovered from the ship - likewise the artist 'a rather excitable Austrian named Adolph Hitler' achieves fame and fortune 'peddling overpriced landscapes' and never ascends to political notoriety.
• The video game Persona 2: Innocent Sin featured Hitler as a main villain.
• The arcade game Total Carnage features a villain named Ahkboob, who as it turns out is really Hitler.
• In The NES version of Bionic Commando , the final boss is Hitler in the Japanese Famicom release as well as the US release. However in the US release, all references to Nazism were removed and Hitler's name was changed to Master-D, but still resembles Hitler.

[edit] Comics

• The New Adventures of Hitler by Grant Morrison and Steve Yeowell deals with the idea that Hitler stayed in Liverpool, based on rumours that he visited local family members like William Patrick Hitler.
• Hate-Monger is a supervillain from the Marvel Comics Universe. In addition to being a fictional representation of Adolf Hitler, he wears a purple Ku Klux Klan-style robe and hood.
• In DC Comics' Outsiders, a clone of Hitler is given a mentally retarded Jewish maid, several films of the Holocaust, and a handgun. He commits suicide rather than embrace the atrocities shown to him.
• In Bob the Angry Flower, Hitler returns from centuries spent in Hell, rehabilitated and devoting his life to peace and good works.
• There is a well-known German satirical comic book Adolf by Walter Moers.
• In Spike vs Dracula #3, in 1943 Hitler makes a deal with Dracula to release some Gypsies for him in return for his help at capturing three powerful vampires that could be used as a weapon.
• In Spriggan, Neo-Nazis have resurrected a Hitler clone by using the Holy Grail to place his soul in it in order to collect their ancient artifacts that they had stashed during the Second World War.
• In Osamu Tezuka's manga Adolf, Hitler is one of the three men named Adolf that the story revolves around.
• In the webcomic 51 by Tyler Poole, one of the characters is actually the result of a botched attempt by the U.S. Government to clone Hitler. The result caused was a teenaged, female version of the Nazi leader, who goes by the name of Ada Hill. Ada kept some traits from Hitler, such as a great artistic ability, a love of animals, vegitarianism, and a certain leader quality, but abandoned all others. Interestingly, her boyfriend Josh, the main character, is Jewish.
• A DC miniseries was released about an elderly Superman protecting the world. He encounters a cloning lab, where not one, but two Hitler clones have taken over and are attempting to clone the then deceased Batman.

[edit] Hitler in Music

• The song "Crystal Night" by Masterplan tells the history of Crystal Night when the nazists destroyed many shops and commerce of Jews. The song calls Hitler a liar and a fool.
• The song "Gotterdammerung" by Stratovarius tells the history of Hitler and his actions in Second World War. The song calls Hitler a monster that feed the guns.
• The punk band the Angry Samoans have a song called "They Saved Hitler's Cock"
• "Crack Hitler", a song from Faith No More's album Angel Dust.
• "Quicksand" from the LP Hunky Dory by David Bowie is a song about a heat-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.
• "Hitler as Kalki" by apocalyptic folk band Current 93, which makes use of Savitri Devi's idea that Hitler was an avatar of the Hindu god Kalki.
• "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.
• "Two Little Hitlers" by Elvis Costello, a song about a loveless couple, on the album Armed Forces.
• "Jesus Hitler" by thrash band Carnivore. The song tells of a nun who conceived and birthed a child as a product of a rape by a Nazi. The song poses the question, if the child were religiously important, would he be The Second Coming of Jesus, or The Anti-Christ?
• American pop punk band The Mr. T Experience recorded a song called "Even Hitler Had A Girlfriend".
• The Grindcore band Anal Cunt have a song titled "Hitler was a Sensitive Man".
• The band GWAR has a character in one of their skits called "Jitler," a portmanteau of both Jesus and Hitler.
• The song Defecate On My Face by the Australian band TISM is about Hitler's fictional excrement fetish. The video clip for this song features footage of Hitler and the German Army.
• The band Atomic Raygun Attack plays a song called Worser Than Hitler

[edit] Other

• Forged journals of Hitler, known as the Hitler Diaries, were published in Germany by the magazine Stern in 1983.
• Alvin Rosenfeld - Imagining Hitler (Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1985)
• In an episode of Hey Arnold, Grandpa Phil tells Arnold and his friends his experience in World War II. Known to be senile and embellish the truth, he said he fought Hitler and won. Oddly enough it turns out that at least part of his story is true as he has a memorial (albeit in terrible condition) in Washington D.C.
• The Goodies episode "War Babies", set in World War II features Winston Churchill who it turns out actually resembles Adolf Hitler. Tim Brooke-Taylor is hired by the wartime Prime Minister to be a stand-in so nobody realises what he really looks like.
• The 2004 German film Der Untergang (English title: Downfall) was severely criticized by many people (though the critics generally enjoyed it) for depicting Hitler as a frail and war-ravaged human being with very strong feelings, with many complaining that Hitler and the upper-echelon of the Nazi hierarchy were depicted in a slightly sympathetic light in many scenes.
• "Adolph Hitler" was the name of Linda Lovelace's cat.
• In the Justice League cartoon, he is removed from office as Führer and replaced with Vandal Savage. He is reappointed after Savage is defeated.
• In Hellboy, he derives immortality and power from the legendary Spear of destiny.
• Third Reich & Roll is a 1976 album by the U.S. avant-garde pop group The Residents.
• A feline version of Hitler appears on posters in the comic strip Maus.
• In the 2001 comedy Rat Race, a Jewish family (led by Jon Lovitz) visits a Klaus Barbie museum (believing it is about the the doll). After their car is sabotaged, the family escapes in Hitler's Mercedes-Benz, which is eventually damaged by an angry biker gang.
• In Robot Chicken, a boy, who didn't believe in heaven dies and goes to heaven, sees Hitler who is surprised to be there.
• In a satirical routine on one edition of The Daily Show, Stephen Colbert tells Jon Stewart his name is actually Ted Hitler, and that Adolf Hitler is his grandfather.
• In an episode of Andy Richter Controls the Universe, Andy feared that the sandwich delivery guy was Hitler.

Jessica: "Remember that time you thought you figured out the identity of the sandwich guy?"

Andy: "HITLER!"

Jessica: "Andy, for God's sake, the man would be 106 yrs old!!"

Flashback to Andy acosting the sandwich guy.

• Adam Sutler in V for Vendetta is based on Hitler in mind as both gain power through a state of fear and paranoia. Both are also racist.
• Patrick Zala in Gundam Seed also shares a Hitler-like personality as he proclaimes that coodinators are the new race. He had also planned to use genocide against his enemies.
• In the science fiction comic Slot Barr from Ricardo Barreiro and Francisco Solano López, Slot the protagonist found an old space capsule, inside this capsule he finds a cyborg who has been traveling the universe for a few thousands of years, he discovers that this cyborg is really Hitler, who at the end of the World War II transplanted his brain into a robotic body, also Hitler has developed psychyc powers, now being capable of reading thoughts, and inflict pain with only wishing, at the end Slot tricks Hitler and kills him.
• The website CatsThatLookLikeHitler.com features pictures of cute felines that bear an uncanny resemblance to the German leader.
• The 185th strip of the webcomic VG Cats, http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=185, implies that Hitler is the only person incapable of having their greatest wish fulfilled.
• In the Harajuku section of Tokyo, Harajuku Girls and boys often dress in Nazi uniforms and use Hitler's hairstyle.
• 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.
• A parody of Loituma Girl having a short loop of Hitler dancing has circulated the internet, viewable here.
• 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 "Edward Elizabeth Hitler" claimed Adolf Hitler was his mother
• Hitler's hair style simillarities to the Emo stereotype have been used in many internet memes