Making Fun [sic] of Hitler

Abstract

denoid Hynkel, Kaiser Overall, and Adolf Elizabeth Hitler have two things in common. First, all three names humorously identify one of the most evil people in recent or any history—no laughing matter, a moral monster responsible, directly or indirectly, for deaths of tens of millions and for misery of countless people that lasts till this today. Secondly, they also show how an artistic and, more narrowly, a satiric imagination can deal with such monstrosity.