[shibumi]

"My father-in-law was a WWII ETO vet. His evaluation of a show he would never watch ... “WTF is so funny about Nazis?”

Exactly.

Speaking from my own point of view (having served in combat, albeit many years ago) the thought of being taken prisoner is far more disturbing than the fear of death.

I watched this show once. I saw nothing funny about it then, nor do I now, no matter how they dressed it up with pretty girls.

[BigBobber]

Maybe it wasn’t funny, but ridicule can be an effective tool against tyrants.

[William Tell]

shibumi said: "I saw nothing funny about it then, nor do I now, no matter how they dressed it up with pretty girls."

I found it very distressing the way the show trivialized the evil of the Nazis. One can only imagine what the world would look like today if Hitler had not invaded the Soviet Union.