JustASC

I’m working on a column about this latest “Downfall” parody:

When Israelis enlist Hitler in a parody, all bets are off. So long as there are living survivors, and the wounds of the Shoa remain fresh, there are no benign satires on or involving Nazism. I can well understand the pain of a survivor who imagines a young Israeli cavalierly
enlisting Hitler in a spoof.

And yet, there is something ironic, hilarious, and wildly subversive about Hitler sweeping his hand over a map of “Tel Aviv” and complaining only about the lack of parking garages. In Hebrew, yet! If the very idea of an overcrowded Jewish state is not revenge on Hitler, then nothing is.

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