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TIL about the 80s Pakistani action flick, Hitlar, in which der Führer settles down in Pakistan and sires a son. The son of Hitler -Hitlar - spends his days terrorizing a small town, using his musical sting to petrify his enemies, and conversing with paintings of his dead Nazi father.

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