A VIDEO portraying South Central Ambulance Service (SCAS) bosses as Nazi military officials has emerged on YouTube.

The roughly four-minute clip uses subtitled video from 2004 film Downfall, depicting the moment Adolf Hitler realises the Second World War is lost.

That footage has become a popular internet parody where users change the subtitles to make it appear as though Hitler is reacting to modern events.

In the video posted on December 8 – named “SCAS Managers meeting” – one Nazi points to a map and tells Hitler: “Our figures show we are still struggling here.”

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Hitler responds: “I have them on the phone asking me what is going on. What do I tell them?”

Another Nazi then says: “Mein Fuhrer... tell them I will bully the staff into working harder.”

SCAS spokeswoman Catherine Morrow said the video was being taken “extremely seriously.”

She said: “We were made aware of the material by our own staff and have flagged its existence with YouTube and asked them to remove it.

“We do not know if this has been posted by a member of staff or not. We are continuing to look in to the circumstances around this.”

The video’s posting came after SCAS officials faced grillings from Oxfordshire County Council over worsening response times in rural areas such as West Oxfordshire. The trust also faces a county recruitment crisis.

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