Posted on 02/20/2009 8:27:07 PM PST by Steelfish
YouTube
Video shows Adolf Hitler ranting over the housing bubble.
Adolf Hitler slowly raises his trembling hand and removes his glasses from his sneering, sweat-drenched face. He bellows profanities at his officers, who stare back in horror.
And what has provoked Der Fuhrer's outrage?
He has been banned from playing Xbox Live.
This is only one example of over a hundred parody videos on YouTube of a climactic scene from the 2004 movie, "Downfall," in which Hitler displays a frightening tantrum in the presence of his officers. YouTube posters have taken to pasting humorous subtitles over the action.
But not everyone is laughing. The film itself was criticized for its humanizing portrayal of the Nazi dictator. Now some people are complaining about the YouTube parodies, which play Hitler up for laughs.
An umbrella organization representing Holocaust survivors in Israel asked YouTube on Tuesday to take down one of the spoofs, in which Hitler complains about the lack of parking spaces in Tel Aviv, according to The Jerusalem Post.
The organization said that the clip was grossly insensitive to the feelings of elderly Holocaust survivors.
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That’s great.
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