{"id":5998,"date":"2026-07-03T12:05:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T11:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetab.com\/filmshrine\/?p=5998"},"modified":"2026-07-03T12:05:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T11:05:13","slug":"erm-did-the-minions-work-for-hitler-minions-monsters-director-explains-bizarre-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetab.com\/filmshrine\/2026\/07\/03\/erm-did-the-minions-work-for-hitler-minions-monsters-director-explains-bizarre-theory\/","title":{"rendered":"Erm, did the Minions work for HITLER? Minions &#038; Monsters director explains bizarre theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Minions &amp; Monsters and\u2026 Adolf Hitler?! The filmmaker behind the new Despicable Me movie has officially given his verdict on the bizarre theory, but his comments open up a whole new problem.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As the seventh instalment in the hugely successful Despicable Me franchise and the third Minions spinoff, <a href=\"https:\/\/thetab.com\/filmshrine\/2026\/07\/03\/the-creator-of-the-minions-has-explained-why-there-still-arent-any-female-minions-and-its-wild\/\">Minions &amp; Monsters<\/a> landed in cinemas on July 1st.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Set in 1920s Hollywood, the film follows the yellow troublemakers as they attempt to make their own monster movie, only to unleash real creatures that threaten to plunge the world into chaos.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Given the historical setting, it\u2019s reignited discussion about the bonkers theory that circulated after the first Minions movie in 2015, which delved further into their origin.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The film confirmed the small, yellow creatures have existed since the beginning of time and served <a href=\"https:\/\/thetab.com\/filmshrine\/2026\/06\/10\/actors-who-got-paid-peanuts-for-huge-roles-after-obsessions-inde-navarrettes-pay-exposed\/\">Napoleon<\/a> in the 19th century, only to accidentally fire a cannon at the French emperor, forcing them into exile.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"qme\" dir=\"ltr\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/B2TEsfNN4H\">pic.twitter.com\/B2TEsfNN4H<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mads (@europemaxxed) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/europemaxxed\/status\/2072407227403559337?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 1, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They retreated and started a new life in a cave, sparking questions about what they were up to in World War II.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since they typically tend to serve villains, it\u2019s not completely unreasonable that fans speculated whether they worked for Hitler and the Nazis during the Third Reich &#8211; and they may have been the reason for his downfall in this timeline (after all, their actions always lead to chaos).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019d be easy to explain that they were hiding in the cave throughout this time, but the latest spinoff confirms there are various tribes of Minions &#8211; and they always seek out the biggest bads as their masters.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>The Minions we know didn\u2019t serve Hitler<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6002\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6002\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6002\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.filmshrine.com\/uploads\/2026\/07\/32-1.jpg\" alt=\"Minions in Minions &amp; Monsters\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.filmshrine.com\/uploads\/2026\/07\/32-1.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/cdn.filmshrine.com\/uploads\/2026\/07\/32-1-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.filmshrine.com\/uploads\/2026\/07\/32-1-768x403.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6002\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Universal Pictures<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As much as you may believe this theory, Minions &amp; Monsters co-writer and director Pierre Coffin has put the rumours to bed in a conversation with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/minions-questions-do-minions-reproduce-can-they-die-did-they-work-for-hitler\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Polygon<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2026 kind of.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI knew you were going to ask me that question. Shame on you,\u201d he joked, before confirming, \u201cI think they were in that cave.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That said, the interviewer pointed out the fact that Minions &amp; Monsters establishes \u201cmultiple tribes\u201d of the little troublemakers, and so Coffin at the very least confirms that the Minions in this timeline didn\u2019t work for Hitler.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI was trying to avoid the answer,\u201d he admitted, adding, \u201cSo the Minions that we know from Minions 1 were stuck in the cave. These ones, I don&#8217;t know where they were, but they were not part of the Big History.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Minions &amp; Monsters accidentally complicates the theory<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Coffin may have settled the debate about these Minions, but as said, Minions &amp; Monsters arguably creates a brand new continuity debate.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">MINIONS &amp; MONSTERS apparently establishes that there are multiple tribes of Minions.<\/p>\n<p>Which means the franchise has accidentally reopened the one question it spent years trying to avoid:<\/p>\n<p>What were the Minions doing during World War II?<\/p>\n<p>The original MINIONS movie conveniently\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mXV8BHPHGh\">pic.twitter.com\/mXV8BHPHGh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Matt Jarbo (@mjarbo) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/mjarbo\/status\/2072477979368632588?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 2, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While the original Minions movie explained that Kevin, Stuart and Bob spent decades hiding in a cave after abandoning Napoleon, the new film reveals there were multiple tribes of Minions living around the world at the same time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That inevitably raises the question fans have been asking for more than a decade: if other Minions weren&#8217;t trapped in the cave, where exactly were they during the 1930s and 1940s?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Coffin insists they &#8220;were not part of the Big History,&#8221; but beyond that, the franchise still leaves one of its weirdest fan theories without a definitive in-universe explanation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Taking to X, one fan wrote that this new detail \u201cmeans the franchise has accidentally reopened the one question it spent years trying to avoid: What were the Minions doing during World War II?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe original Minions movie conveniently locked Gru\u2019s group inside a cave from 1812 until 1968. Very convenient dates,\u201d they added.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">catch-22 situation:<\/p>\n<p>if minions worked for hitler, horrible for illumination&#39;s PC inclusive family friendly brand image<\/p>\n<p>if minions didn&#39;t work for hitler, that would be saying he wasn&#39;t the villain at the time<\/p>\n<p>tough choice for the studio&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pXjdubgopB\">https:\/\/t.co\/pXjdubgopB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; \ud835\udd92\ud835\udd94\ud835\udd8c\ud835\udd8c\ud835\udd8e\ud835\udd93\ud835\udd8c (@wanted4mogging) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/wanted4mogging\/status\/2072413131050008991?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 1, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cBut if other Minion tribes were still out there looking for the most evil boss available, then somebody has to explain where they ended up during the 1930s and \u201940s.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cPierre Coffin was asked about it and basically said, \u2018They were in the cave.\u2019 Except now we know that wasn\u2019t all of them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWere they working for Hitler? Did they accidentally sabotage him from the inside because they\u2019re incapable of following basic instructions? Did one of them destroy his paintings and set the entire timeline into motion?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cNobody at Illumination should ever answer this. 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