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Third Reich
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Finally, my watchers had to fess up. In embarrassed and genuinely polite tones, they said they had no other choice but to arrest me. Then they accompanied me to the prison across the way. As I entered, an extremely tall SS man leapt in front of me and asked: “Do you have any weapons?” “Why?” I responded. “Do I need any?
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― Dead Funny: Humor in Hitler's Germany
― Dead Funny: Humor in Hitler's Germany
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The historian Meike Wöhlert has analyzed and compared the judgments rendered by courts responsible for malicious acts of treason in five cities. Although her research only deals with registered cases and not unofficial ones, the results suggest that the telling of political jokes was a mass phenomenon beyond state control. In 61 percent of official cases, joke-tellers were let off with a warning, alcohol consumption often being cited as an extenuating circumstance. (People who had had one too ma
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― Dead Funny: Humor in Hitler's Germany
― Dead Funny: Humor in Hitler's Germany
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September 1, 1939, the unimaginable happened. WAR! …more
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