Holocaust in Film Fiction

With films like Inglorious Basterds and series like The Man In The High Tower and the Amazon series Hunters, we see stories that are based on actual events, but highly fictionalized. Quentin Tarantino's "Basterds" ends with Hitler getting point blank shot in the face with automatic rifles. Of course it never happened, but it's sort of a retroactive propaganda akin to the first issue of Captain America in 1941, who's cover famously featured Captain America punching Hitler in the jaw! Works of fiction that portray Nazis often ignore The Holocaust completely. The Nazis in the TV SHow "Hogan's Heroes" were portrayed as laughable, and the living condition of Hogan and his jovial crew were better than many people living in poverty. It's clearly not the type of show that could exist anymore. Indiana Jones famously fought Nazis in some of his films. It's weird to think about how Dr. Jones had to get The Lost Ark to keep the Nazis from destroying humanity, while they were already doing it with non magical means. In the third film, Jones even confronts Hitler at a book burning in an almost Forrest Gump right place/right time moment. He could have blown Hitler's brains out then and there. So what's worse? Indiana Jones existing in a cinematic world with Hitler where he's allowed to thrive and continue to commit atrocities, or the fantasy of Inglorious Basterds taking care of business. Amazon's Hunters featuring Italian acting legend Al Pacino as a grizzled survivor in '70s New York hunting Nazis in America with an almost cartoonish team of crime fighters. Though based very loosely on actual Nazi Hunters of the time, it's also set in an alternate reality where Nazis have infiltrated every level of government and are in key positions of power. Of course nearly all historical events have a near countless array of fictional variants, but few have the dread of something like The Holocaust. Is it OK if a work doesn't discount the subject matter it fictionalizes? Is the creation of Jewish superheroes just a cathartic way to fictionally destroy an enemy that the real life world took too long to eliminate? I think there's room for both the fiction and reality, as long as it doesn't distort the evil side in a way to make you disbelieve what really happened.

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