Laughing Through Tears

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In trying to understand Hitler and how such a horrendous thing could have happened, emotions bubble to the surface. I say we can laugh a little when we cry. Maybe it helps us to create dialogue about it. -- Roberta Beach Jacobson

If somebody breaks a taboo how to handle all this Hitler stuff, a Jew must do it -- and he did. I'm sure that the things you laugh about in this comedy reveal deep truths about the secrets of Hitler. -- Karl

I'm in love with Germany, mainly with its history and how it survived to the war and became the first powerful country in Europe. Even though I haven't seen this comedy, I think it shows that the German people didn't think like "the Führer," as I thought they did. I'm looking forward to seeing it soon. -- Jacinto van der Horst

Laughter is a response to a pleasing surprise. To be pleased and entertained with history's icon of the horrors of genocide is to support savagery and terror today. -- Elizabeth Papadopoulos

As an American who lived in Germany from early 1946 through 1950, I and the others of my generation directly witnessed the cold, starvation, ruins, homelessness, disease, refugees, tribunals and endless propaganda surrounding those families devastated by the deaths of their loved ones. There's nothing comic about any of it for my generation. -- A. Mercer