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Hi gang. A friend is writing an article about the Hitler Downfall parodies and is trying to find the 1st instance -- of course KYM forums are the place to go with this kind of hunt…

He is currently looking through non-profit YouTube archiver YouTomb in case the 1st was taken down due to C&D, but currently believes this video is the 1st (which hasn't been taken down): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8dl4faCpJE

there is a YouTube upload preceding the one above; it's in spanish sub, uploaded on August 10, 2006. I believe it's Hitler reacting to flight simulator demo:

Wow, nice find Brad!

thanks, also ran across the youtomb page of english version (uploaded by the same guy). it got deleted last month: http://youtomb.mit.edu/youtube/tcW3hbnR2EI

also, updated the origin section: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/downfall-hitler-meme