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I’m still watching this—it being Tax Day and all—but I was powerless not to post it. Overheated, loaded with cliché (“the Germans are a proud people,” “the dustbin of history”—and that’s just in the first segment), the doc is great fun for twelve-year-olds of all ages. “One planned to give der Fuhrer a bouquet designed to squirt poison into his face…” Every three minutes, they get some obsessive to say something faux-portentous like, “At twenty-five feet, this gun definitely COULD’VE killed Hitler.” It’s the anti-”World at War.”

I love how obviously unacademic at lot of these people are: “It’s extremely dangerous to be Hitler! If you’re going to spend your life being a professional bad guy, then yeah! you’re going to have some people who are wanting to shoot back at you!” “He simply didn’t have the gumption to take torture.” “Auf Wiedersehen! [gunshot]” Come on! This is so bad it’s GREAT! (Sorta.)