Netflix is getting mercilessly mocked over ‘ridiculous’ Hitler picture-Ruth Lawes-Entertainment – Metro

Netflix fans couldn’t resist making jokes about an unfortunate poster promoting an Adolf Hitler documentary (Picture: Bettmann Archive)

Netflix is being dragged over an unusual design choice in the promotional poster for an upcoming documentary about Adolf Hitler.

Circulated widely on social media, the image is a side-by-side split of the evil German dictator’s face.

One half of the poster is a regular photo of Hitler, while the other is coloured blood red with a shattered glass filter

Netflix viewers have ripped the image the shreds on X, with many suggesting the split effect hints there was ‘another side’ to Hitler.

Or as @elmeliac put it: ‘I love the way this poster implies that there was a dark side to Hitler we didn’t know about. ‘

Mocking the poster, @tylerduran21 sarcastically said the show’s tagline is: ‘”Many people know Hitler the charismatic painter. But do they know the REAL man behind the mask ?”‘

Social media users said the poster implied there was a ‘dark side’ to Hitler ‘we didn’t know about’ (Picture: Netflix)

Echoing their sentiment, @thunderxstorm07 quipped: ‘”You’ll never believe what this Austrian artist did…”’

Continuing the joke, @WayneGB888 added: ‘Yeah, he was an artist in the day, but at night…….’

@FacedSchiff branded the poster ‘ridiculous’, while @RealJohnSacco wondered which Netflix bod gave it the final sign-off.

According to Netflix, Hitler and the Nazis: Evil on Trial tells the definitive history of the Third Reich: its ideological birth after German surrender in WWI, the fanatical and catastrophic leadership of Adolf Hitler, the ultimate destruction of the Reich at the hands of Allied forces, and the era’s heady aftermath.

The documentary is billed as the ‘definitive history’ of the Third Reich (Picture: Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

The six-episode series has been directed by Joe Berlinger, a filmmaker known for true crime series including Conversations with a Killer.

Speaking to Variety about the project, Joe previously said: ‘This is the right time to retell this story for a younger generation as a cautionary tale, and on a global scale.

‘In America, we are in the midst of our own reckoning with democracy, with authoritarianism knocking at the door and a rise in antisemitism.

‘By dissecting what happened in Nazi Germany, hopefully what viewers will see is just how precious democracy is, and how easily it can be attacked from within, and how important it is to protect.’

Hitler and the Nazis: Evil on Trial is available to stream on Netflix on June 5.

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