Editing Hitler Has Only Got One Ball (section)

== ''River Kwai'' and post-war legacy ==

[[File:The Bridge on the River Kwai (1958 US poster - Style A).jpg |thumb|right |Movie poster for ''The Bridge on the River Kwai'']]
After World War II, the song (and the debate about Hitler's monorchism) remained in common parlance.{{sfnm |Kelley |2020 |1pp=33-34 |Murdoch |1990 |2p=200}} 
Its use in [[David Lean]]'s 1957 film ''[[The Bridge on the River Kwai]]'' led to the [[Mitch Miller]] band recording a best-selling version under the title "The River Kwai March". 
In Lean's early conception of the film, Allied soldiers in a Japanese prison camp would sing the song as an act of defiance. 
But after the widow of the composer of "Colonel Bogey March" objected to the bawdy lyrics, Lean decided that if the soldiers simply whistled the tune the audience would supply the lyrics mentally.{{sfnm |Cooke |2020 |1pp=91-92 |Kelley |2020 |2pp=34-35 |Schwabach |2016 |3pp=75-77 |Tyler |2016 |4p=22 |Whiteley |2010 |5p=133 |Ashley |1977 |6p=148}} 
Since then the song has been the subject of numerous cultural references, both comedic and controversial.{{sfn |Kelley |2020 |p=35}}

When, in 1980, [[The King's Own Calgary Regiment Band]] played the "Colonel Bogey March" (its official march) during a visit to Canada by Japan's prime minister, it was perceived as an insult to Japan,{{sfnm |Cooke |2020 |1pp=91-92 |Schwabach |2016 |2p=77}}<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=KIkxAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Z6QFAAAAIBAJ&dq=canada%20japan%20gaffe&pg=6583%2C2935671 |author=Staff | title=Our band hit sour note for Japan's prime minister |agency=[[The Canadian Press]] |date=6 May 1980 |work=[[Montreal Gazette]] |page=1 |accessdate=16 October 2010 |archive-date=5 March 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170305195108/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=KIkxAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Z6QFAAAAIBAJ&dq=canada%20japan%20gaffe&pg=6583%2C2935671 |url-status=live }}</ref>
but in 2007 the U.S. Navy's [[Seventh Fleet Band]] played the tune in Japan without apparent objection.{{sfn| Schwabach |2016 |p=77}}

The song appears in the satirical comic book limited series ''[[Adventures in the Rifle Brigade]]'' (2000), by [[Garth Ennis]] and [[Carlos Ezquerra]], and the severed testicle is the main [[MacGuffin]] of its sequel, aptly named ''Operation Bollock'' (2001–2002).<ref>{{Citation | last = Irvine | first = Alex | author-link = Alexander C. Irvine | contribution = Adventures in the Rifle Brigade | editor-last = Dougall | editor-first = Alastair | title = The Vertigo Encyclopedia | pages = 18 | publisher = [[Dorling Kindersley]] | place = London | year = 2008 | isbn = 978-0-7566-4122-1}}</ref>

A 2003 advertisement for [[Spitfire ale]] showed a picture of Hitler in military uniform with the caption "Spot the ball".{{sfn |Kelley |2020 |p=36}} 
In 2007, ''[[The Armstrong and Miller Show]]'' aired a comedy sketch mocking theories that the song had originated as a British intelligence report.{{sfnm |Kelley |2020 |1pp=37-39 |Lee |2018 |2p=233}} In the sketch, a military officer reads the incoming report, which an intelligence agent describes as "possibly the single biggest intelligence coup of the war" (brackets in the original):{{sfn |Kelley |2020 |pp=37-39}}
{{poemquote|But this is dynamite [''reading, as from a Morse code communique'']
Hitler. One ball. [''audience laughter throughout'']
Goring. Two but small.
Himmler. Similar.
Goebbels. No balls at all.
}}

In the 2010s, the video game series ''[[Sniper Elite]]'' alluded to the song by including the ability to shoot off Hitler's single testicle with a rifle.<ref>{{blist |Parker, Simon (10 November 2017), "[https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/call-of-duty-wolfenstein-and-the-joy-of-killing-virtual-nazis Call of Duty, Wolfenstein, and the Joy of Killing Virtual Nazis]", ''[[The New Yorker]]''. Retrieved 9 September 2021. |Warr, Philippa (3 March 2014), "[https://www.wired.co.uk/article/jason-kingsley-sniper-elite-3 Sniper Elite and the appeal of Hitler's nut shots]", ''[[Wired UK]]''. Retrieved 9 September 2021. | Chandler, Sam (17 May 2017), "[https://ag.hyperxgaming.com/article/5365/watch-hitlers-only-testicle-get-shot-off-in-sniper-elite-4 Watch Hitler's Only Testicle Get Shot Off in Sniper Elite 4]", ''AllGamers''. Retrieved 9 September 2021.}}</ref>

At the 2016 [[Winnipeg Comedy Festival]], comedian [[Lara Rae]] referenced the song in a joke about the dangers of cats being [[neutered]] by non-professionals who might not complete the task: "It might start out okay, but you really have to finish the job. A cat with no balls is mellow; a cat with one ball is Hitler."{{sfn |Kelley |2020 |p=36}}

A 2019 episode of the American television series ''[[The Man in the High Castle (TV series)|The Man in the High Castle]]'' shares its title with the song and features a scene in which it is sung.<ref>Tallerico, Brian (18 November 2019), "[https://www.vulture.com/2019/11/the-man-in-the-high-castle-recap-season-4-episode-8.html The Man in the High Castle Recap: Loose Ends] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210801203442/https://www.vulture.com/2019/11/the-man-in-the-high-castle-recap-season-4-episode-8.html |date=1 August 2021 }}", ''[[Vulture.com]]''. Retrieved 9 September 2021.</ref>

In the 2024 television series [[Monsieur Spade]] "Colonel Bogey March" is whistled at the end of episode 4, the beginning of episode 5 and the end of episode 6 as a way to animate the protagonist, an Algerian boy  savant named Zaid, and motivate him to continue his journey. 

In Germany, the song has been used in advertisements for the digestif [[Underberg]], and in Japan, where it has been used in game shows and children's shows. [[Thomas Jefferson School of Law]] professor Aaron Schwabach described the song's appropriation not just by Britain's allies but also by its former enemies, whom the lyrics attack, as a form of "cultural transformation" that is "an essential tool of cultural survival in a global era".{{sfn |Schwabach |2016 |p=78}}

According to [[folklorist]] Greg Kelley of the [[University of Guelph-Humber]], these comedic references have been effective for nearly a century after the war engendering theories of Hitler's actual monorchism in the public consciousness.{{sfn |Kelley |2020 |p=39}}