Mel Brooks Quotes
Don’t be stupid, be a smarty / Come and join the Nazi Party!
Brooks, Mel. The Producers. Embassy Pictures, 1967.
The Russian troops had surrounded Berlin and were closing on the bunker. Hitler announced that he intended to commit suicide. 8 days later he did.
Dulles had little regard for the immorality of using Nazis as agents including major war criminals—even when it was against U. S. law and policy. The CIA continued to be insensitive and over the years employed some of the worst right wing murders and war criminals, The “precedent” was set after WWII by Dulles. See also {633240}.
He had abdicated and was serving as the Governor of the Bahamas at the time. While the public was given the reason for has abdication as his love for a divorced woman, his pro Nazi viewpoints which were not publicly known in England, made him unacceptable and his treason a danger to England at war with Nazi Germany.
Both of these famous Americans were admirers of Nazi Germany and Adolf Hitler. They both accepted medals from the German dictator. And both of them were apologists for German aggression and urged the United States not to side with England and to stay neutral in the War. The next year Germany declared war on the United States.
Mel Brooks is an American director, writer, actor, comedian, producer, and composer. He is known as a creator of broad film farces and comedic parodies. Brooks began his career as a comic and a writer for Sid Caesar's variety show Your Show of Shows (1950–1954) alongside Woody Allen, Neil Simon, and Larry Gelbart. Together with Carl Reiner, he created the comic character The 2000 Year Old Man. He wrote, with Buck Henry, the hit television comedy series Get Smart, which ran from 1965 to 1970.
