N: Maybe, but is that how it comes across? It doesn’t say next to the skull, you know, “Yeah, we killed him but trust us, this guy was horrid.”
I mean, its a comedy sketch. But it should be noted that this is exactly what the Germans were saying of their victims in the 1930s and 40s.
Might also be worth noting that, for all the shit German Nazis (justifiably) get, the English and the French and the Americans and Chinese and Turks and the various Eastern European powers were also engaged in these horrifying industrialized holocausts within their own spheres of influence. And they were also insisting the genocides of American Native Peoples, Hindu Nationalists, assorted African and Middle Eastern Nationalists, Koreans, Filipinos, Communist and Socialist civil reformers and union organizers, Jews, Roma, Disabled Peoples, and anyone else who didn’t fit their trending eugenics theories were justified because the people being killed were “horrid”.
Germany and Japan (and Italy kinda when they didn’t suck at it) just polarized the politics of industrial genocide in an effort to build fresh new empires over the carcasses of the old Colonial Powers. And that’s what had The Allies so upset. They were generally fine with The Holocausts within Germany and Japan, so long as they stayed on their own sides of the imaginary lines.
The reason we let them get away with it because they were killing their own people. And we’re sort of fine with that. “Help yourself, we’ve been trying to kill you people for ages, so you start killing your own people…” But Hitler killed people next door…the stupid man. After a couple of years we won’t stand for that now will we?!
I love his delivery about how Hitler dying in a ditch covered in patrol and on fire is funny. Hits so perfectly within the modern context of the latest rekindling of neonazi parties
I mean, its a comedy sketch. But it should be noted that this is exactly what the Germans were saying of their victims in the 1930s and 40s.
Might also be worth noting that, for all the shit German Nazis (justifiably) get, the English and the French and the Americans and Chinese and Turks and the various Eastern European powers were also engaged in these horrifying industrialized holocausts within their own spheres of influence. And they were also insisting the genocides of American Native Peoples, Hindu Nationalists, assorted African and Middle Eastern Nationalists, Koreans, Filipinos, Communist and Socialist civil reformers and union organizers, Jews, Roma, Disabled Peoples, and anyone else who didn’t fit their trending eugenics theories were justified because the people being killed were “horrid”.
Germany and Japan (and Italy kinda when they didn’t suck at it) just polarized the politics of industrial genocide in an effort to build fresh new empires over the carcasses of the old Colonial Powers. And that’s what had The Allies so upset. They were generally fine with The Holocausts within Germany and Japan, so long as they stayed on their own sides of the imaginary lines.
Makes me think of Eddie Izzard’s bit on this:
Izzard’s delivery of that segment is superb.
I mean all Izzard’s delivery is gold, but that “the stupid man” bit is magic.
I love his delivery about how Hitler dying in a ditch covered in patrol and on fire is funny. Hits so perfectly within the modern context of the latest rekindling of neonazi parties