GRAND FORKS (AP) - Officials at North Dakota's two largest colleges are condemning a joke video that depicts Adolf Hitler as a deranged University of North Dakota backer ranting about North Dakota State University's superiority in sports.

"All I can say is there's nothing about Adolf Hitler than I find amusing," said Keith Bjerke, North Dakota State's vice president for university relations. "We don't support, condone or endorse anything he's babbling about."

The video, which was circulated widely on Wednesday and Thursday, was dropped from its host Web site Thursday night and replaced by a statement: "In light of recent unfortunate, unrelated events, this video has been voluntarily withdrawn."

It was an apparent reference to reports about a Jewish UND student's statements that he had moved out of his dorm last week after he was harassed with anti-Semitic slurs, and a swastika was drawn on the stairwell of his building.

Peter Johnson, a UND spokesman, said the video was "not in the best of taste, particularly the personal attacks" against the university's president, Charles Kupchella, who is retiring this summer.

The video described Kupchella as "useless." "All of his dogs just aren't barking," it said. "We're paying him $200,000 a year for nothing."

"I do take strong exception to the personal attacks that are unwarranted, but also untrue," Johnson said. "To me, that goes way beyond the line of being humorous."

The video is taken from the German film "Downfall," which dramatizes the final days of Hitler, many of his top officers, and their families, who holed up in a Berlin bunker as Soviet troops besieged the German capital in April and May of 1945.

The video overlaid a clip from the film, which lasts almost four minutes, with fake "translations" of what the characters were saying in white-lettered subtitles.

As one officer described to Hitler the deteriorating military situation around Berlin, the subtitle depicted him as talking about NDSU's transition to NCAA Division I sports.

"NDSU is steadily gaining fans from all over the region," the subtitle said as the officer spoke. The movie then showed Hitler replying: "Not to worry. We have hockey."

Hitler later exploded at his officers, with the subtitles saying: "I'm sick and tired of hearing about the Bison … We have a $100 million arena. We get more money from the state than anyone. But then NDSU goes Division I and all of a sudden they're eating our lunch."

Bruno Ganz played Hitler in the film, which was released in September 2004 and nominated for an Academy Award.