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Dead funny : humor in Hitler's Germany

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  • "Explores how Hitler has been made fun of in Germany from the 1930s through the end of the twentieth century, collecting jokes about Hitler, the Holocaust, the Nazis, and the aftermath of the war in Germany."
  • "In Nazi Germany, telling jokes about Hitler could get you killed Hitler and GOring are standing on top of the Berlin radio tower. Hitler says he wants to do something to put a smile on the Berliners' faces. GOring says, "Why don't you jump'" When a woman told this joke in Germany in 1943, she was arrested by the Nazis and sentenced to death by guillotine'it didn't matter that her husband was a good German soldier who died in battle. In this groundbreaking work of history, Rudolph Herzog takes up such stories to show how widespread humor was during the Third Reich. It's a fascinating and frightening history: from the suppression of the anti-Nazi cabaret scene of the 1930s, to jokes made at the expense of the Nazis during WWII, to the collections of "whispered jokes" that were published in the immediate aftermath of the war. Herzog argues that jokes provide a hitherto missing chapter of WWII history. The jokes show that not all Germans were hypnotized by Nazi propaganda, and, in taking on subjects like Nazi concentration camps, they record a public acutely aware of the horrors of the regime. Thus Dead Funny is a tale of terrible silence and cowardice, but also of occasional and inspiring bravery."

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  • "Electronic books"
  • "Criticism, interpretation, etc"
  • "Humor"

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  • "Dead funny : humor in Hitler's Germany"
  • "Dead funny humor in Hitler's Germany"

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