Template talk:Adolf Hitler

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[edit] Hitler in Popular Culture

Triumph of the Will seems pretty obvious, since it's a very famous film and it's all about him -- in many ways, it is him. The Empty Mirror is more recent, but also seems relevant. Palm_Dogg 06:16, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

Triumph of the Will doesn't really fall under "popular culture", which refers to popular depictions of and reactions to Hitler after the fact, not to a film at the time that was commissioned by him and directly related to his rise to power. Plus Triumph seems like it would fit better in a general Nazi Germany list of links than in a specifically Adolf Hitler-based one. I won't remove it (yet), but you should definitely go to Hitler in popular culture if you honestly think it fits and convince the editors there that it does before adding it to the template; there's a whole article for stuff like this, so only the most significant examples of "Hitler in popular culture" should be included on this template, with the rest getting mentions on the article itself. For that reason, I'm removing "Gay Hitler" and "The Empty Mirror" from the template as well: if they aren't noteworthy enough references to have their own, well-established article, they aren't important enough to link to in the main template. -Silence 06:10, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

Then why are The Great Dictator and Der Fuehrer's Face on there, since they were also "at the time". I posted on Pop Culture, and agree with most of what you say. If it was commissioned by him, it's every bit as significant as "Mein Kampf" and since a large percentage of the footage of Hitler seen today is lifted from Triumph, I think it's fair to say that if it doesn't belong under Popular Culture it should at least be somewhere on the Template. Perhaps we could make a seperate subheading called "Hitler in Cinema"... Palm_Dogg 17:15, 18 November 2005 (UTC)