For a long period of time, American cinema refused to acknowledge the growing threat of Nazism in Europe. Much like today, major American pop culture has
a nasty habit of trying to remain neutral in the face of fascism or all sorts of other horrors affecting oppressed communities so that they don't lose the potential spending of fascists and bigots, all while marginalized communities suffer at the hands of fascists. Eventually, though, the horrific realities of the Nazi regime did get recognized in American cinema. and one film to confront Hitler's reign of power head-on was Ernst Lubitsch's satirical comedy
To Be or Not to Be. Though that may not be the first genre you'd imagine using to explore then modern-day horrors, it turns out to be the perfect domain to both take the piss out of Nazi's and to produce some mighty witty comedy.
