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This scene in the 2004 film Downfall has been subtitled hilariously in hundreds of memes.

The film JoJo Rabbit is just the latest in  along line of comic portrayals of Hitler. What makes a despot responsible for the deaths of millions so amusing? That’s one of many aspects of humour and politics to be grappled with at the Australasian Humour Studies Network Conference in Brisbane this week.

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Wednesday, February 5 2020
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Featured in storyDr Benjamin Nickl from the University of Sydney’s Department of International Comparative Literature and Translation Studies
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