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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
One of the curious things about Nazis in entertainment is that people today are far more sensitive about the topic than the people who actually fought the Nazis. Popular British and American entertainment in the 60s was full of comedians mocking Nazis. Dressing as them, giving mocking heil Hitlers, making fun of their accents, painting them as ridiculous buffoons. Monty Python, Laugh-In, Allo Allo, Hogan's Heroes - several of the latter's cast members were actually Holocaust survivors.
The people watching those shows (and many of the creators) had put their lives at risk fighting Nazis in Europe. Watched their homes and cities turned to rubble by German bombers. Had families killed in the occupation and holocaust. And yet they loved to laugh at Nazis and poke fun of them, while today it's taboo. Weird.
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What? I don't think that's weird at all.
If you were the one that went through something, then you can be the one to mock it or make fun of it. But the minute somebody else does, it's a completely different dynamic, isn't it? It's a completely different context, isn't it?
It makes sense that society has gone a bit more sensitive about it, because nobody in younger generations knew what it was like- so who the hell are they to make fun of the criminals that commenced humanity's worst suffering episode in history?