21.2.08

10 marka Göringi-nalja eest


There were jokes about Hitler--his background, his appearance, his path to power, his personal life, his personal traits like being superstitious and vindictive, his success, and ultimately, his decline. Jokes about other personalities--Hermann Göring, Joseph Goebbels, Rudolf Hess, Ernst Röhm, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Robert Ley--were also popular. Indeed, jokes about Göring were the first to circulate throughout the Third Reich, and Göring, in contrast to Hitler, had a good sense of humor. There were rumors that he collected jokes about himself, paying ten marks for any new joke.

Lynn Rapaport. Humor in Holocaust Tragedy,
In: Gray Zones: Ambiguity and Compromise in the Holocaust and Its Aftermath,
ed. by Jonathan Petropoulos and John K. Roth
Berhahn Books, 2005, p 255

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