Incidentally, I'd only add one name to your list as for comedies/farces dealing with the Third Reich directly, and that's a theatre play: George Tabori's Mein Kampf.
I have read about that, but never read or seen it. I will keep an eye out for it and remember I might only be able to do it once.
If we add comedies that aren't set in during the twelve years themselves but deal with some of their aftermaths, then I'd also add Helmut Dietl's movie Schtonk! (which takes its title from the nonsensical exclamation Chaplin's Hynkel yells into the microphone), which uses the rl event of the Hitler Diaries fraud for a biting satire.
That sounds amazing.
But, for example: this is why a show like Hogan's Heroes doesn't work for me.
Hogan's Heroes seems to have been cathartic or otherwise useful for the percentage of its cast that were Jewish and had fled the Nazis (or survived the camps), so on that level its existence makes sense to me. It does not actually work for me as comedy, though, so.
Re: Collaborators, I hope it's staged somewhere I can watch, it sounds fascinating.
I hope you get a production! I kept hoping there would be a DVD, but it never materialized. Maybe the popularity of The Death of Stalin will bring it back.
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I have read about that, but never read or seen it. I will keep an eye out for it and remember I might only be able to do it once.
If we add comedies that aren't set in during the twelve years themselves but deal with some of their aftermaths, then I'd also add Helmut Dietl's movie Schtonk! (which takes its title from the nonsensical exclamation Chaplin's Hynkel yells into the microphone), which uses the rl event of the Hitler Diaries fraud for a biting satire.
That sounds amazing.
But, for example: this is why a show like Hogan's Heroes doesn't work for me.
Hogan's Heroes seems to have been cathartic or otherwise useful for the percentage of its cast that were Jewish and had fled the Nazis (or survived the camps), so on that level its existence makes sense to me. It does not actually work for me as comedy, though, so.
Re: Collaborators, I hope it's staged somewhere I can watch, it sounds fascinating.
I hope you get a production! I kept hoping there would be a DVD, but it never materialized. Maybe the popularity of The Death of Stalin will bring it back.