Humour is a wonderful safety valve. When you're hurt, angry and helpless, telling a joke about the source of your misery makes you feel good. Some very unassuming people had incredible courage. They told 'Hitler, Goering and Goebbels jokes' in public, knowing that they could be picked up and never be seen again.
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"Did You Hear the One About Hitler?"
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A new book about humor under the Nazis gives some interesting insights into life in the Third Reich and breaks yet another taboo in Germany's treatment of its history. Jokes told during the era, says the author, provided the populace with a pressure release.
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Hitler visits a lunatic asylum. The patients give the Hitler salute. As he passes down the line he comes across a man who isn't saluting.
"Why aren't you saluting like the others?" Hitler barks.
"Mein Führer, I'm the nurse, I'm not crazy!" comes the answer.
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That joke may not be a screamer, but it was told quite openly along with many others about Hitler and his henchmen in the early years of the Third Reich, according to a new book on humor under the Nazis.
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http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,434399,00.html