A meme has been developing over the last year where a video clip from the 2004 film “Downfall (Der Untergang)” by Oliver Hirschbiegel, set in 1945 showing Hitler’s last 10 days in his Berlin bunker, is constantly being remixed with new subtitles on various themes, here are a few versions:
The a latest, “Hitler Is A Meme” explains the meme itself, where Hitler is informed that he is now the new “Star Wars Kid”.
“Hitler Gets Banned (His Ultimate Downfall)” – Xbox LIVE
UPDATE 1: Markus, a commenter from Germany, it trying to find out why Germany is blocking his access to these videos. It must be that any references to Hitler or Nazis is blocked. Anyone else have any other info on this?
UPDATE 2: Harley resigning from the Burning Man LLC.
UPDATE 3: Hitler Orders A DMCA Takedown by Brad Templeton
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Wow, I saw the xbox one’s like a year ago, I had no idea this had continued. Brilliant. I love the Hitler is a Meme one
Now that’s what I call stupid. Most of the videos linked above are “not available in your country” for me… I’m from Germany … if anyone is entitled to laugh at Hitler then I am for it’s my legacy and I have to deal with it. Why in the world does Youtube block something like that?
Yesterday, the burning man had me in an apoplectic fit. TFF!
I’m from Germany and it’s not every video that’s blocked, it’s „only“ the second life and stolen car and it surely has nothing to do with any blocked references. Don’t know where this comes from, reminds me of the Flickr-Block of some Stuff outside USA.
The BM meme is hilarious. Thanks for posting this. Keep ‘em coming.
i’m fan of laughing squid and need to tell you that you missed one video, at this link: http://mx.youtube.com/watch?v=4OjRCkLe_J0
it’s about a provincial governor in mexico, emilio gonzalez marquez, who a few weeks a go he asked for the citizens to go to hell, something like fuk you: “Chinguen a su madre”
he was drunk
next day, he offer an apologize.
thank’s for the laughing squid!!
I made a webpage for this meme that lets you rate the different videos / see the best. It’s still quite new (I’m adding commenting etc at the moment) but it works pretty well. If your interested the URL is http://hitlerme.me .
Cheers, Dave.
Indeed, even Hitler is getting a little fed up with all these Downfall parodies.
–Andy
MastersofHumility.com
I only discovered the downfall meme a few months back. I don’t think it will ever get old.
Indeed, Hitler also wasn’t too happy when he found out about Sarah Palin’s resignation. Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IzNPEGWNos
Incredible how long this meme has lasted — well over a year and a half now. Sarah Palin, Michael Jackson, they just keep coming.
For the uninitiated, check out the New York Times article: “The Hitler Meme”
The first of these videos, my (meta) parody, “Hitler Is A Meme“, was removed from the ‘Tubes a while back, but is still available to watch here.