page_title: Adolf Hitler in popular culture
section_title: Art
hierarchical_section_title: Adolf Hitler in popular culture / Art
caption_attribution_description: English: Satan Leads the Ball lampoon the major leaders of the WWII Axis Powers (including Adolf Hitler), among whom are interspersed other key historical figures as well as symbolic and allegorical figures including Death and Satan.
context_page_description: Adolf Hitler was the leader of the National Socialist German Workers' Party and Chancellor of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945. Hitler has been represented in popular culture ever since he became a well-known politician in Germany. His distinctive image was often parodied by his opponents. Parodies became much more prominent outside Germany during his period in power. Since the end of World War II representations of Hitler, both serious and satirical, have continued to be prominent in popular culture, sometimes generating significant controversy. In many periodicals, books, and movies, Hitler and Nazism fulfill the role of archetypal evil. This treatment is not confined to fiction but is widespread amongst nonfiction writers who have discussed him in this vein. Hitler has retained a fascination from other perspectives; among many comparable examples is an exhibition at the German Historical Museum which was widely attended.
context_section_description: Salvador Dalí painted several pictures involving Hitler. The Enigma of Hitler (1939) depicts a torn photograph of Hitler on a plate in a typically surreal landscape over which hangs a broken telephone and an umbrella. He also painted the Metamorphosis of the Face of Hitler into a Moonlit Landscape (1958). One of his late works was Hitler Masturbating (1973), depicting just that, with Hitler seen from behind in an armchair in the center of a snow-filled desolate landscape.
  Hitler is depicted in a balloon overlooking marching, helmeted troops in the painting Vision of War by Indian artist A. Ramachandran. A picture of him with Gandhi by M. F. Husain was controversial with Hindutva groups in India.
caption: Satan Leads the Ball by Arthur Szyk
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