Dead Funny

Dead Funny by Rudolph Herzog


ISBN
9781612191300
Published
Released
01 / 08 / 2012
Binding
Paperback
Pages
250
Dimensions
129 x 198mm

In Nazi Germany, telling jokes about Hitler could get you killed. Is it permissible to laugh at Hitler? This is a question that is often debated in Germany today, where, in light of the dimension of the horrors committed in the name of its citizens, many people have difficulty taking a satiric look at the Third Reich. And whenever some do, accusations arise that they are downplaying or trivializing the Holocaust. But there is a long history of jokes about the Nazis. In this groundbreaking volume, Rudolph Herzog shows that the image of the andldquo;ridiculous Fanduuml;hrerandrdquo; was by no means a post-war invention: In the early years of Nazi rule many Germans poked fun at Hitler and other high officials. Itandrsquo;s a fascinating and frightening history: from the suppression of the anti-Nazi cabaret scene of the 1930s, to jokes about Hitler and the Nazis told during WWII, to the collections of andldquo;whispered jokesandrdquo; that were published in the immediate aftermath of the war, to the horrific accounts of Germans who were imprisoned and executed for telling jokes about Hitler and other Nazis. Significantly, the jokes collected here also show that not all Germans were hypnotized by Nazi propagandaandmdash;or unaware of Hitlerandrsquo;s concentration camps, which were also the subject of jokes during the war. In collecting these quips, Herzog pushes back against the argument, advanced in aftermath of World War II, that people were unaware of Hitlerandrsquo;s demonic maneuvering. The truth, Herzog writes, is more troubling: Germans knew much about the actions of their government, joked about it occasionally . . . and failed to act.From the Hardcover edition.
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