Springtime for Hitler (song)

"Springtime for Hitler" is a song written and composed by Mel Brooks for his 1967 film The Producers. In the original film, the 2001 musical, and 2005 film adaptation, the song is the overture to a stage musical titled Springtime for Hitler, an admiring tribute to Adolf Hitler written by unstable former Nazi soldier Franz Liebkind, which protagonists Max Bialystock and Leo Bloom produce on Broadway in hopes that the production will fail, allowing them to secretly embezzle the rest of the money they had earned via selling an excess of shares. It was orchestrated by Philip J. Lang and staged by Alan Johnson for the former, with the latter productions orchestrated by Doug Besterman and staged by director Susan Stroman.