In fact, Hitler even beat out Jesus for total references for a good stretch of the mid-20th Century. For a long time, he was also stealing Christmas. But we're happy to note that Christmas overtook Hitler in the 1980s, and has narrowly edged him out ever since.

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Hitler%2CJesus...

I think there's an exemption to Godwin's Law for writing about Nazi Germany.