Hitler is angry that Michael Jackson is dead. Hitler is pissed that the ending of "Watchmen" has no squid. He is angry about not getting Billy Elliot tickets. He is positively furious at James Cameron about "Avatar" and he is not entirely pleased that his Xbox Live account has been canceled.
Som time ago, a subtitling meme appeared on Youtube, which involved taking a certain scene from "Downfall" (2004 - perhaps better known to Europeans as "Der Untergang") in which a furious Adolf Hitler verbally abuses his top generals, and giving them subtitles that are, midly put, extraordinarily out of context.
World War II movies are usually serious business. A parody of a movie like "Schindler's List" would in most circles probably be regarded as being in very poor taste. Even when they are less than serious, they are given a certain sort of reverence. I am one of those that believe that "Inglourious Basterds" was not excatly stunted by its World War II backdrop, even though the plot could in principle just as well have manifested itself in a a gangster epic, the gratuitous violence and the ending even suggest that Tarantino is aware of this.
However when asked the director of "Downfall", Oliver Hirschbiegel, he actually thinks the trend fits the theme of the movie very well. "Downfall" is, if anything, a movie that tries to take what is likely the most demonized men of the 20th century as try to paint them as something else than heartless monsters.
I find that I agree with Hirschbiegel. These people were as human as anyone else, and forgetting this is a grave mistake to make. Thus it is vital to, as Hirschbiegel puts it, "pull them down from their piedestals".
Source: New York Magazine
Meanwhile, if you want to take a look at how Hitler himself reacts to learning he's a joke on youtube, look no further:
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