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Dead Funny: Humor in Hitler’s Germany
Darcy Rhyno reviews Dead Funny, a new book about joke-telling in Nazi Germany.
Nazi Germany’s two most hated figures – Hermann Göring and Adolf Hitler – are standing on top of a building in Berlin.
Hitler turns to his Luftwaffe Commander-in-Chief and confesses how he’d like to do something to put a smile on the faces of Berliners. Göring answers his boss, “Then why don’t you jump?”
To poke fun at Adolf Hitler and his followers was to risk death in Nazi Germany.
That’s a sample of World War II humour in life under the Nazi regime documented in Rudolph Herzog’s book Dead funny: Humor in Hitler’s Germany.
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The joke is a little weak, perhaps, but surprising by its very existence. And dangerous. Particularly for a war widow identified as Marianne K. She’s the war widow who told that joke to a co-worker in the armaments factory where they both worked.
The Nazi’s People’s Court had her executed by guillotine for so-called “defeatist” utt