Hitler's Final Days in the Bunker

Hitler the Hero
Mercocomic reimagines Adolf Hitler as a force for good

The seventies were an incredibly creative time for popular arts.

Comics and graphic novels of the period have a certain caution-to-the-wind quality. Mercocomic's six part series Hitler is a prime example.

It is an amazing tale in which Adolf Hitler successfully escapes Berlin at the end of World War II but is wounded by a bomb blast that induces amnesia.

With his face drastically altered and his memory totally obliterated, he becomes a Nazi hunter in the service of the KGB. Of course all this digging around is bound to jog the memory of even an amnesiac, and then there will be hell to pay.

Yeah. It's crazy—even crazier than Mercocomic's other offerings starring Che Guevara and John F. Kennedy. You can just hear the discussion going back and forth: “We can't do this.” “Of course we can.” “No we can't.” “I tell you we can.” In the end they did do it, because that was then and popular art consumers would give anything a chance.

1977 copyright on these, with covers by Prieto Muriana

Imagine this:

Hitler, feeling that the politics of
Germany are all about talk, no action, moves to the U.S., starts illustrating
for pulp Sci-fi novels and magazines,
and eventually gets into writing
himself with his novel
"Lord of the Swastika".

A piece of satire, "The Iron Dream"
sets itself up as a reprint of this
fictional Hitler's work.

"The Iron Dream" is like a book that
fell through some kind of cosmic wormhole and ended up on used
book shelves in our world.

The book even includes a fake
academic paper at the end.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"This war will never end as long as both sides have time machines," Barbara warned, “because one side will always be able to travel back and checkmate the other".

To Adolf Hitler, the device called Die Glocke, or The Bell, is the "Wunderwaffe" that will win World War II for Nazi Germany, enabling the Reich to dominate the world. Others see the time machine differently, among them Franklin D. Roosevelt and Heinrich Himmler.

This dramatic story of the race to develop a time machine on both sides is the first novel by Robert F. Dorr, a non-fiction author of popular history books like "Mission to Berlin" and "Fighting Hitler's Jets".

In Dorr's first fiction, the top American scientist is a young woman who has never held a job, and the top Nazi scientist is an SS madman in Hitler's inner circle. The outcome of the war may be decided by a commando raid in the tradition of "The Guns of Navarone."

Or maybe not.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In the 1970s "National Lampoon" did a photo spread called 'Exile in Paradise', in which they got a Hitler lookalike and went down to the Bahamas and shot photos of him.

Midway through the shoot they needed money, and sent a telegram back to New York that said something to the effect of "This is an expensive trip. Hitler needs more money".

Western Union reported the message, and the US government took it seriously enough as to immediately investigate what "National Lampoon" was doing with Hitler.

The FBI showed up and seized a whole lot of stuff that they thought connected to Hitler, and it was not until "National Lampoon"  could prove that the man they hired was not actually Hitler that the FBI backed off.
 

Want to know which superstar product-endorser foreign ad agencies love the most? It's Adolf Hitler. Yes, that Hitler

German coffee company Tchibo used the phrase "To Each His Own" to advertise its coffee without realizing that the slogan once adorned the gates of Buchenwald. The company retracted the ads following a PR storm.

Grey Group retracted an ad for Doc Morris Pharmacies condoms that jokingly suggested that if Hitler's mom had worn a rubber, history might be different.

But those instances are the exception that proves the rule. From Brazil to India, Hitler sells more stuff than Michael Jordan.

 

a bela Sintra wine, via Brazil

 

Amundsen, a Czech Vodka

 

The Hideki barber shop in Japan

ExitGermany: Museum Supervisor

Waterstones: The power of books

Sedicis deodorant, via Spain

 

For Texsana, a Swiss dry cleaner

 

 

For Luxor highlighters, via India

Sokos, a department store chain in Finland

 

Comedy Central: It won a Silver Lion at Cannes in 2007

 

Hell Pizza, via New Zealand

For Nulaid eggs, via South Africa

For an audio book seller in India. That is a bookmark in his mouth.
Ad won a Silver Lion At Cannes in 2011

A mash-up of the Führer and James Dean,
for CNA, a South African entertainment retail chain

Rasta Hitler, created by Belgian humor magazine HUMO

 

Saatchi & Saatchi [Museum]: From Hitler to Dali

Japan's Tokyo subway system ran an elaborate campaign from 1976 to 1982
using figures from popular culture to improve the manners of subway riders.

Casper Mosquito Repellent has used three unlikely historical figures
to star in its advertising campaign: Hitler, Stalin, and Osama bin Laden.

The tag line: "End the terror".

The Casper ads were created by Ogilvy & Mather, Mumbai

Movement against Racism & Xenophobia: Facism + Communism

 

Image Bank: No matter what you say, a picture says more

Movistar Mobile Phone Operator: Happy Mother’s Day

Client: Anti-drunk driving campaign
Ad agency: Advertisers Without Borders, Argentina

A "classic," in the sense that Hitler frequently appears as the bad guy in public service advertising
 

This ad never appeared for Procter & Gamble's Gillette brand -- it was created on spec as an advertisement for a photographer from India hoping to get work.

The Chinese creators of this radiator ad said:

We decided to use Hitler [to advertise German-made heaters]
because as soon as you see him, you think of Germany.
It leaves a deep impression.

 

 

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