I really hope Hitler won't ever become a pop culture icon.
I just remind you that he killed thousands of men, women and children, and not in a movie but in the real life.
As a french guy, i can assure you that it happened because my grandfather spent 5 years in a german camp as a prisoner of war... I never had the chance to know him...
Everyone is free to collect what they want but ?*Potato*? please do not mix reality and fiction. Guys really died, and not on a filmstrip...
Or maybe we got a totally different sense of humor in Europe than in US.
Sorry for the off-topic.
The point I was making was don't necessarily blame collectors, blame media companies and creatives who fuel it. Those movies/TV I mention are just a handful that make Hitler engaging for a younger audience, thereby driving collectibles. You love Tarantino, you want the Raine and Landa figures, and may want a Hitler to go with it (and companies like DID obliged with that Hitler uniform.
I guess I can see how someone who's a big WWII buff might want a Hitler in their collection. Or if they just like the German uniforms or the various outfits he wore. As long as they don't actually admire the guy.
I certainly couldn't do it though. I've been working on a German Disguise Indy recently, and even just having that uniform in my collection makes me a bit uneasy.
Yeah, for me it's not really the regular German uniforms at all, it's just anything with the swastika or SS uniform. I wouldn't display a black uniform or a swastika - or Hitler or any real German officer regardless of uniform - DID made a ton of those "named German officers."
I have been working on a Last Crusade (and um, even "crusade" itself has become charged as a word these days) Vogel in the pale desert uniform and decided to make him end-of-fight where he's all beaten up so that his swastika armband is torn down and you can't see the symbol clearly.
It's tricky with Indy though - Toht has his swastika button, there's a gag with a large Nazi flag to pull Indy from the pit, Hitler's a major cameo. Swastikas are everywhere and it's actually been interesting to see how companies have handled the merch - like Hasbro's "+" on their Vogel figure and the same on the flying wing toy from the 90s.