Reply #28: My two cents...

[TZ]

I actually don't mind it, when its used in a humorous fashion (any more than nice post, Stalin)
I think as someone whose entire european relations were killed by Hitler, I do have a right to be offended by it. But I am not. Maybe because I feel that by making Hitler into a joke, we are in effect diminishing HIM (and not the horror of what he did, IMO), something I know he woould hate.
I am much more offended by people who say what was the big deal with Hitler anyway..he did do some okay things or even (and you will find this attitude here sometimes)--whats the big deal? The holocaust wasn't any worse than A,B, C..people who have indeed forgotten the true magnitude of what happened there. In fact I have been truly offended by some liberals whom, in saying war is never justified, will minimalize the Holocaust to me..Now THAT is much more offensive to me than some casual flippancy.
But I do understand why you don't find it funny.