( Speaking of infamous killers, did you know Hitler liked to prance around in short shorts? Read our De-Textbook for the details. )

As a rule, you probably assume that most family-friendly properties are going to be free of difficult things to explain to your kids, like adult innuendo, advanced mathematics, and notorious murderers. You would assume wrong, at least on the last one ...

6 Nazi and the Chocolate Factory

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Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory was full of scenes of questionable content, as any of us who still cry during the ferry tunnel scene can attest. But the most bizarrely dark scene is one you probably never even noticed. It's the part where Charlie, heartbroken, watches a news report about the final Golden Ticket being found in South America. The newscaster holds up a photo of the lucky winner ...

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TV was low-tech. Private inventors were working on improvements.

... who a few astounded history buffs pointed out was real-life war criminal Martin Bormann, Reichsleiter of the Nazi Party and personal secretary to Adolf Hitler.

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And he hadn't taken a new photo since leaving Germany.

What the what? These days, when this kind of thing happens, it can usually be chalked up to a set designer's intern who played it loose with a Google image search, but this was 1971. They had to walk all the way to the ... photo library, we guess? It's safe to assume they knew exactly what they were doing.

According to the film's director, Mel Stuart, the photo was a joke that fell flat, presumably because they (slightly) overestimated the number of children in the audience who possessed an encyclopedic knowledge of obscure World War II villains.

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And an encyclopedic knowledge of dick slang ... but that's a whole other story.

Bormann was killed by the Red Army as he tried to flee Berlin, but there was a rumor that he actually escaped and fled to Paraguay, hence the reference about him winning the ticket in South America. Stuart went on to elaborate on the failure of such an obvious knee-slapper: "25 years after World War II, very few people knew or cared who Martin Bormann was, so the scene was never as successful as I had hoped."