93 books
—
18 voters
Third Reich
“
When Hitler addressed the Reichstag in January 1934, he could look back on a year of achievement without parallel in German history. Within twelve months he had overthrown the Weimar Republic, substituted his personal dictatorship for its democracy, destroyed all political parties but his own, smashed the state governments and their parliaments and unified and defederalized the Reich, wiped out the labor unions, stamped out democratic associations of any kind, driven the Jews out of public and p
...more
”
― Rise and Fall of the Third Reich Part 2 of 4
― Rise and Fall of the Third Reich Part 2 of 4
“
The historical record contradicts the assumption that the Nazis sentenced large numbers of people to death during World War II for telling jokes. In the final phase of the Third Reich, some cases did receive capital sentences, but they were extreme exceptions to the rule. (We will return to them later.) The compilations of jokes that circulated in Germany after the war bore titles like Deadly Laughter and When Laughter Was Dangerous, but there is not much evidence that the jokes they contained w
...more
”
― Dead Funny: Humor in Hitler's Germany
― Dead Funny: Humor in Hitler's Germany
The following blurb is from the back cover.
September 1, 1939, the unimaginable happened. WAR! …more
2 members,
last active 14 years ago
