Jojo Rabbit: Feel-good comedy on Hitler, reminds us of the times we live in

When Charlie Chaplin made The Great Dictator in 1940, it may have been the first cinematic venture into lampooning a fascist. His despotic Hynkel, the ruler of Tomainia, was an expert caricature of Adolf Hitler. Fortunately for Chaplin, this classic of comedy was made before the world became truly aware of the horrors of the Holocaust.
 
Nearly 80 years later, the genre of the Hitler satire appears to have gradually emerged. In 2007, there was the German film, My Fuhrer, castigated by critics, and eight years later, Look Who's Back, another German movie. This was based on a bestselling