# Springtime For Hitler!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/springtime-for-hitler/24258
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [July 1, 2000, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/springtime-for-hitler/24258 "2000-07-01T07:08:47Z")
**Posts on this page:** 19
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### Author:  [@Greg\_Charles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greg_Charles)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2000, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/springtime-for-hitler/24258/1 "2000-07-01T07:08:47Z")
I had fun reading through the Blazing Saddles quotes, but of course we all know that The Producers was Mel Brooks’ real masterpiece. Vis:
Look at me! I’m wearing a cardboard belt!
Where do you keep your wallet? (Said to Roger Duprix, while he was dressed as the Grand Duchess Anastasia.)
Max, he’s wearing a german helmet.
Zis is not gut! I am … not killing you. Don’t you unnerstand, you must die. Now vill you cooperate!!!
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### Author:  [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2000, 10:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/springtime-for-hitler/24258/2 "2000-07-01T10:19:47Z")
…come and join the Nazi Party!
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### Author:  [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2000, 10:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/springtime-for-hitler/24258/3 "2000-07-01T10:34:43Z")
My husband was the concierge, but he’s dead. Now **I’m** the concierge.
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### Author:  [@silent\_rob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silent_rob)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2000, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/springtime-for-hitler/24258/4 "2000-07-01T10:49:57Z")
And now it’s…
Springtime for Hitler and Germany
Deutschland is happy and gay
We’re marching to a faster pace
Look out, here comes the master race
Springtime for Hitler and Germany
Winter for Poland and France
Springtime for Hitler and Germany
Come on, Germans, go into your dance!
Incidentily, Mel Brooks won the best screenplay/story Academy Award for this movie (which it so rightly deserved). Also, Gene Wilder was nominated for best supporting actor. It’s still one of my favourite comedies. Later all.
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### Author:  [@MagicalSilverKey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MagicalSilverKey)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2000, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/springtime-for-hitler/24258/5 "2000-07-01T14:06:22Z")
What movie is the “Springtime for Hitler” bit from? I don’t remember.
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### Author:  [@CWN](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CWN)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2000, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/springtime-for-hitler/24258/6 "2000-07-01T14:52:35Z")
It was from “The Producers”
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### Author:  [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2000, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/springtime-for-hitler/24258/7 "2000-07-01T14:54:44Z")
… as stated in the OP.
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### Author:  [@capybara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capybara)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2000, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/springtime-for-hitler/24258/8 "2000-07-01T15:24:51Z")
"MY Fuehrur never says thees “Bay-Bee!”
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### Author:  [@lurkernomore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lurkernomore)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2000, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/springtime-for-hitler/24258/9 "2000-07-01T15:24:54Z")
“Baby? Der Fuhrer never called anyone “Baby”.”
"Who ever thought you’d love a play called “Springtime for Hitler?”
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### Author:  [@rackensack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rackensack)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2000, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/springtime-for-hitler/24258/10 "2000-07-01T18:23:25Z")
“It’s nothing without the hat.”
“Get it, o wicked witch of the west.”
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### Author:  [@Rincewind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rincewind)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2000, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/springtime-for-hitler/24258/11 "2000-07-01T22:03:18Z")
“You are the audience. I am the author. I outrank you.”
“Hold me. Touch me.”
And the line I quote when I am feeling weary and nothing is going right.
“Don’t you understand? You must die.”
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### Author:  [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2000, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/springtime-for-hitler/24258/12 "2000-07-01T23:49:06Z")
“I want everything I’ve ever seen on television!”
“Where did I go right?”
(And when my day just isn’t going right,) “I’m wet. I’m in pain. And I’m still hysterical!”
And hello, oh brother of mine. Stop lurking and post more. Putting the family name to shame, you are.
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### Author:  [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2000, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/springtime-for-hitler/24258/13 "2000-07-02T02:22:41Z")
“You are the actor, I am the author. I OUTRANK YOU!!!”
(When I was an unergrad the film people actually made up a fake Playbill for “Springtime for Hitler” when they showed “The Producers” It was a riot – they included bios and everything.)
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### Author:  [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2000, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/springtime-for-hitler/24258/14 "2000-07-02T05:33:11Z")
“Don’t be stupid, be a smarty,
Come and join the Nazi Party!”
With Dick VanPatten’s voice but not his face, near as I can tell.
Prisoners in love, blue skies above…
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### Author:  [@silent\_rob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silent_rob)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2000, 8:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/springtime-for-hitler/24258/15 "2000-07-02T08:36:05Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*\*
> “Don’t be stupid, be a smarty,
> Come and join the Nazi Party!”
>
> With Dick VanPatten’s voice but not his face, near as I can tell.
> \*\*
How right you are. While Mel Brooks didn’t appear in the film (as far as I can tell) his voice is dubbed over for that line in the Springtime for Hitler musical number
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### Author:  [@Smart\_Bob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smart_Bob)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2000, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/springtime-for-hitler/24258/16 "2000-07-02T08:42:04Z")
I’ve gotten the Springtime for Hitler song off of Napster, but it’s not always available.
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### Author:  [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2000, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/springtime-for-hitler/24258/17 "2000-07-02T09:44:14Z")
U-boats are sailing once more!
We’re marching to a faster pace -
Look out, here comes the master race!
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### Author:  [@Yankee\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yankee_Blue)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2000, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/springtime-for-hitler/24258/18 "2000-07-02T14:09:57Z")
[QUOTE]
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“Don’t be stupid, be a smarty,
Come and join the Nazi Party!”
With Dick VanPatten’s voice but not his face, near as I can tell.
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Nope, that extra WAS Mel Brooks - his face, his voice.
"I've worked very, very hard, and I deserve a toy."
"Max, you can only sell 100% of anything."
"My blue blanket! My blue blanket!"
```
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### Author:  [@MagicalSilverKey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MagicalSilverKey)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2000, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/springtime-for-hitler/24258/19 "2000-07-05T16:39:34Z")
I just watched “The Producers” for the very first time last night. I am familiar with the song “Springtime for Hitler” as I believe Dr. Demento used to play it on the radio. The odd thing is, a different stage performance of that song, than the one in “The Producers” movie.
I vividly recall a scene as follows: Mel Brooks dressed as Hitler, with a group of pseudo-Nazi’s, one I believe may have been Harvey Korman. They were inside a “bunker” and there were machine guns and explosions going off in the background, which was a fake battlefield. At the end of the song, a bomb lands on the bunker and blows them all up, in cartoonish fashion. Mel makes a wisecrack and collapses. End of skit. I’m not making this up. I remember it too clearly.
Does anyone recall such a skit, and where it came from? I am thinking Mel may have remade it in “History of the World” but I haven’t it seen it in so long, that I don’t remember anything but the Spanish Inqusition bit. help???