By Bagehot
THE DAILY Mail carries a sketch of Angela Merkel this morning carrying a Hitler moustache, jackboots, utilizing breeches and doing the Nazi salute. It’s all an indispensable joke, it seems that, a parody of the Mel Brooks comedy “Springtime for Hitler” (tailored by the Mail to add such chortling touches as a “Greek President Stavros” personality, David Cameron as Neville Chamberlain and Reduce Clegg as a Hitler childhood). This follows columns by the Mail‘s chief political thinker, Simon Heffer, accusing Germany of searching for to chanced on a “Fourth Reich.” Over at ConservativeHome, a web-based region no longer identified for slavish legitimate-Europeanism, a sighing Tim Montgomerie asks: “Will we discuss about Germany without resorting to WWII imagery?”
