Adolf Hitler: My Part In His Downfall – Spike Milligan

Surreal anarchic humour is one of the few things that has kept me (almost) sane and Milligan was a master of it. Some of his jokes should be sent on one of those space probes with cultural items that they hope alien life will one day encounter and attempt to grasp human intelligence.

The mice in the caravan ate my Milligan collection. Well they thought it was funny.

Spike’s war memoirs start at Victoria station, where he is given “a picture of Hitler marked ‘This is your enemy.’ I searched every compartment, but he wasn't on the train.”
 
With Gunner Milligan taking aim, the Führer doesn’t stand a chance.
 
For Spike, humour was his way of dealing with the war; afterwards, for dealing with the trauma; after that, he had no reason to change.