THE BBC has searched its archives but cannot find any trace of an offensive 1970s sitcom about how much better life would be if Hitler had won the war. 

After Reform leader Nigel Farage defended himself against charges of schoolboy racism by pointing to It Ain’t Half Hot Mum, the BBC looked for popular 1970s sitcoms about farcical shenanigans under cheerful Nazi rule but came back empty-handed.

A spokesman said: “We were spuriously accused of bias by a frothing right-winger so we naturally assumed we were guilty, because that’s the BBC way.

“But going through our 1970s sitcom output, we certainly found sexism. Homosexuality was treated in a manner most light-hearted. There was more than a little blackface, and you would not believe the size tits had to be before we deemed them funny.

“But pro-Hitler content? Sentiments that the Nazis should have won? Songs about gas chambers, such as Mr Farage is reported by multiple reliable witnesses as singing? Entirely absent.

“Spike Milligan dressed up as Hitler a lot but only in a mocking way, and as he fought against Rommel a degree of licence is allowed. Dad’s Army wasn’t on Hitler’s side, down to the very theme tune. If anything we were overly negative about Germans.

“Perhaps Mr Farage is misremembering, as happens to old people. And perhaps he is misremembering because he was a twatty little public school Nazi.”