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 | | There is a long heritage of Nazi satire, some funny, some trenchant, some negligible, some stupid (we salute you, Freddie Starr, particularly for that hilarious touch of putting the Führer in shorts). |
 | | When John Cleese put an index finger to his upper lip and did his gangly approximation of a goosestep through the lobby of Torquay's most benighted hotel, it was funny and important, particularly as it came in a context of lampooning one Briton's cartoonish views of Germans. |
 | | Peter Sellers once did Hitler in his 1974 film Soft Beds and Hard Battles, in a picture that featured five other examples of Sellers', erm, genius. |
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