Inside Evil: A Night with Hitler

Discovery Channel is currently airing an installment in its shoddy documentary series, Inside Evil dedicated to the man himself, Hitler. Inside Evil is to the Discovery Channel what Behind the Music was to VH1. The series is a really sorry, low budget History Channel rip-off, poorly slapped together with crappy reenactments featuring terrible actors and stock footage galore. It's cheap programming and bad for the soul. It is a sad day when even Hitler is reduced to filler for low rent basic cable networks like Discovery Channel. What exactly are we discovering? The emptiness inside ourselves, probably. The twenty-first century might be quite disappointing so far, but terrorism beats mustard gas and the A-bomb anyday.

You can even make a whole evening of it on the Discovery Channel: your night with the dictators. Before Hitler there was Inside Evil : Pol Pot and afterwards another crap house "documentary" on Genghas Khan. What is this obsession with ruthless, tyrannical dictators? I assume there's an episode on Mussolini but you can't put Mussolini next to Hitler. That's like putting Richard Grieco next to Johnny Depp. There's no comparison. It's Hitler by a landslide. It reminds me of this one glorious day I was watching Family Feud on TV and there was a survey: name a dictator.

There was this utterly absurd moment when someone said Hitler and then the host of the show shouts, "Show me Hitler!" and everyone applauds and starts jumping up and down, all excited about Hitler. Of course, Hitler was number one in the survey. You can't top him. Rock on, twentieth century. Gotta love that cult of personality. By the way, I wonder if the New York Times ever referred to Herr Adolf as "Mr. Hitler."

Inside Evil: Hitler is a psychological profile of the 20th Century's poster child, the ultimate celebrity, an icon of hate. And this is really sad pop psychology at that. It is without a doubt the most erroneous misapplication of Freudian methods I have seen outside a cultural studies course taught by a fanatical lesbian. According to the program something went wrong during young Adolf's toilet training and he got his anal, oral, and genital stages all out of wack. Plus, he was a total mama's boy with an Oedipal complex and some twisted sexual repression.

What a little bitch. I bet Hirohito didn't have that problem. We learn that Hitler and Eva Braun weren't even fucking. What's the problem, Hitler? You should have tapped that ass! But why have sex when you can invade Russia instead? An orgasm lasts a few seconds whereas a Reich could last as long as a thousand years! That's like the the ultimate erection. No wonder Hitler sent millions to their deaths. It was his mommy's fault that he couldn't keep it up. Hitler is one of the main reasons I do not trust artists, art students in particular. They are all potential Hitlers when they fail at their art.

The reenacted scenes with the Hitler family doctor could not have been staged more ineptly. The worst Austrian accent I have heard since Governor Schwarzenneggar (when dramatizing scenes from the 1940s direct sunlight apparently must always pour through venetian blinds). The doctor says, "His mother would have been very disappointed at what he's become." No shit, genius. Inside Evil : Hitler is, without a doubt, the most shameless, offensive WWII tchotchka since Roberto Begnigni's Life is Beautiful or that Robin Williams Holocaust vehicleJakob the Liar. On a sidenote, the Holocaust movie has become a genre unto itself. Is anything sacred? Must everything be reduced to mere "entertainment"?

Does anyone even watch the Discovery Channel? I miss the days when they just showed nature documentaries and we would all get stoned, mute the TV, and play trippy music over the images. That's Animal Planet's whole schtick now. Discovery Channel has no real identity. It's an irrelevent network in crisis so they jump on the Hitler bandwagon, fetishizing fascism. Of course, Hitler is now packaged between ads for the new Adam Carolla reality show and commercials for Expedia.com. You gotta love Hitler. Hitler sells . He's the one that actually pulled it off.

There's an adolescent Hitler inside all of us. We all struggle, just like Hitler. Face it, Hitler is the modern man. Just another neurotic, sensitive little boy who loves his mommy and just so happens to transform a nation of hate filled racists into the greatest conquering army the world has ever known, redraws the map of modern Europe, and commits mass genocide while he's at it. Suck on that, Alexander the Great.

It's just too soon for serious reflection on Hitler and the Holocaust. What will they think about Hitler in a hundred years? Just another wannabe emperor like Napoleon, or what? How do we really confront pure evil in a consumer society where even Hitler is reduced to a commodity, another lame TV show like Hogan's Heroes? "What's on TV tonight, hon?" "Oh, just Hitler." Discovery Channel goes through the tired motions of the serious documentary, in the guise of informing its audience, when they really just want you to watch more TV and buy the products of their sponsors. A little stock footage here, a badly staged reenactment there, a talking head here. This is offensive exploitation and really pathetic excuse for programming, mein freund.


is a psychological profile of the 20th Century's poster child, the ultimate celebrity, an icon of hate. And this is really sad pop psychology at that. It is without a doubt the most erroneous misapplication of Freudian methods I have seen outside a cultural studies course taught by a fanatical lesbian. According to the program something went wrong during young Adolf's toilet training and he got his anal, oral, and genital stages all out of wack. Plus, he was a total mama's boy with an Oedipal complex and some twisted sexual repression. What a little bitch. I bet Hirohito didn't have that problem. We learn that Hitler and Eva Braun weren't even fucking. What's the problem, Hitler? You should have tapped that ass! But why have sex when you can invade Russia instead? An orgasm lasts a few seconds whereas a Reich could last as long as a thousand years! That's like the the ultimate erection. No wonder Hitler sent millions to their deaths. It was his mommy's fault that he couldn't keep it up. Hitler is one of the main reasons I do not trust artists, art students in particular. They are all potential Hitlers when they fail at their art.The reenacted scenes with the Hitler family doctor could not have been staged more ineptly. The worst Austrian accent I have heard since Governor Schwarzenneggar (when dramatizing scenes from the 1940s direct sunlight apparently must always pour through venetian blinds). The doctor says, "His mother would have been very disappointed at what he's become." No shit, genius. : Hitler is, without a doubt, the most shameless, offensive WWII tchotchka since Roberto Begnigni'sor that Robin Williams Holocaust vehicleOn a sidenote, the Holocaust movie has become a genre unto itself. Is anything sacred? Must everything be reduced to mere "entertainment"?Does anyone even watch the Discovery Channel? I miss the days when they just showed nature documentaries and we would all get stoned, mute the TV, and play trippy music over the images. That's Animal Planet's whole schtick now. Discovery Channel has no real identity. It's an irrelevent network in crisis so they jump on the Hitler bandwagon, fetishizing fascism. Of course, Hitler is now packaged between ads for the new Adam Carolla reality show and commercials for Expedia.com. You gotta love Hitler. Hitler . He's the one that actually pulled it off. There's an adolescent Hitler inside all of us. We all struggle, just like Hitler. Face it, Hitler is the modern man. Just another neurotic, sensitive little boy who loves his mommy and just so happens to transform a nation of hate filled racists into the greatest conquering army the world has ever known, redraws the map of modern Europe, and commits mass genocide while he's at it. Suck on that, Alexander the Great. It's just too soon for serious reflection on Hitler and the Holocaust. What will they think about Hitler in a hundred years? Just another wannabe emperor like Napoleon, or what? How do we really confront pure evil in a consumer society where even Hitler is reduced to a commodity, another lame TV show like ? "What's on TV tonight, hon?" "Oh, just Hitler." Discovery Channel goes through the tired motions of the serious documentary, in the guise of informing its audience, when they really just want you to watch more TV and buy the products of their sponsors. A little stock footage here, a badly staged reenactment there, a talking head here. This is offensive exploitation and really pathetic excuse for programming, mein freund.