--- title: Springtime for Hitler? description: Despite the tangible presence of reminders of the Third Reich all over Berlin — from the bullet-scarred buildings near the Reichstag to the converted Wehrmacht... canonical: https://time.com/archive/6940011/springtime-for-hitler/ author: Andrew Purvis article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2007-01-12T05:00:00.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-03-15T19:38:51.613Z article:section: World og:title: Springtime for Hitler? og:description: Despite the tangible presence of reminders of the Third Reich all over Berlin — from the bullet-scarred buildings near the Reichstag to the converted Wehrmacht... og:url: https://time.com/archive/6940011/springtime-for-hitler/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt92f5f0915b865f01/698a4f8b096a94b1ec6afd5c/360_hitler0112.jpg?branch=production&width=360&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 360 og:image:height: 203 og:image:alt: 360_hitler0112.jpg og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Springtime for Hitler? twitter:description: Despite the tangible presence of reminders of the Third Reich all over Berlin — from the bullet-scarred buildings near the Reichstag to the converted Wehrmacht... twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt92f5f0915b865f01/698a4f8b096a94b1ec6afd5c/360_hitler0112.jpg?branch=production&width=360&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [World](/section/world/) # Springtime for Hitler? > Sponsored content. 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Depictions of Adolf Hitler and Nazi symbols are mostly outlawed in Germany, and it remains something of a taboo to mention him in day-to-day conversation. So, it has been a bit of a shock in recent days to see posters plastered on subway walls advertising _Mein Fuhrer,_ a new film about the German dictator. Even more jarring, the film is supposed to be a comedy. Hitler has been the subject of gags in the Anglophone world for some time, in films such as _The Producers,_ but not in Germany. _Mein Fuhrer, The Truly Truest Truth about Adolf Hitler_ portrays him as a bumbling dictator in the last days of the war, forced to hire a fictional Jewish actor from a concentration camp to teach him how to make an uplifting speech that he hopes will rally Germany. Even before the film opened in Berlin this week, it had sparked a huge debate in the German commentariat. Critics attacked it for making light of Germany’s past. They questioned the idea of humanizing Hitler, even as a pathetic loser, and of treating the Holocaust in a comedy. Rolf Hochhuth, 75, the prominent German dramatist who , coincidentally, is now staging his own play about Hitler, condemned the movie for “tampering with history.” Even the film’s lead actor, the popular comedian Helge Schneider, admitted he now regrets doing the film. Adjustments in the editing suite focused the film too much on the portrayal of Hitler as a weakling, which he said he finds “profane.” Many Germans appear to agree. In one poll conducted before its release, 56% said they disapproved of Germany making a comedy about the dictator, while only 30% said they thought it a good thing to do. “I come from a Holocaust family,” Dieter Graumann, vice president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany said in one interview. “It makes me feel queasy if someone is making fun of Hitler and the Holocaust.” The film’s director Dani Levy, who is Jewish, said he had fully expected a “tsunami of controversy.” But he said he was also tired of seeing Hitler depicted only in grainy documentaries whose visual language, he argued, has become “routine.” “There is a certain kind of laughing that brings knowledge and understanding,” Levy said. Not all reviews have been damning. Writing in the weekly magazine _Der Spiegel,_ critic Daniel Haas praised Levy for “dar\[ing\] the outrageous…. The film is not only about Hitler but about the way in which we are dealing with the brown terror,” he said. In fact, after more than a half century of struggling with Hitler’s calamitous legacy, Germans do appear to be taking a slightly less tortured view of their past. _Downfall,_ a serious treatment of Hitler’s last days, appeared in cinemas in 2004\. And this month, the stage play _Heil Hitler!_ , “a grotesque, ironical and humorous attempt to come to terms with history,” according to its playwright Rolf Hochhuth, opens in Berlin. Interestingly, the company hired to put up the _Heil Hitler!_ publicity posters in Berlin refused at first; an executive said he found the play’s title too “hard to stomach.” I went to see _Mein Fuhrer_ at a downtown cinema the day it opened. I laughed twice during the film, and felt a bit uneasy doing so. And I didn’t learn much, for all the hoopla. I suppose I am not outraged that the film was made. 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