The Trouble with Hitler

is easily explained. It’s over exposure - in the main. Hitler

this and that, and of course not forgetting the ‘Other’. Hitler

gets everywhere these days. It sometimes feels like a Hitler

Renaissance to me. My boys grew up thinking that he, Hitler

was actually cool: The classicist, the reverse futurist. Hitler

had an eye for a fetching uniform. The snazzy gadgets Hitler

had. Panzers. U-boats. V2 rockets. If it wasn’t for Hitler

no-one would have heard of Zyklon B. We’d have Warsaw

instead of a Joy Division. And why - if it wasn’t for Hitler

punk may probably not have happened. Offending the Hitler

in everyone would have been harder. And every little Hitler

would still have it in for us: the deviants who dare say Hitler

was only human after all.