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Book sheds light on Nazi-era humour
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| Last Edited | Penguin Sep 03, 2006 12:40am |
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| News Date | Sunday, September 3, 2006 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | A new book and film on humour under the Third Reich, Heil Hitler, The Pig is Dead!, reveal the subversive jokes average Germans dared to whisper while the Nazis had the country in a stranglehold.
The project by German director Rudolph Herzog, son of the veteran filmmaker Werner, explodes the myth that the Germans were so hypnotised by Adolf Hitler that they were blind to the brutality, and at times absurdity, of his rule.
"They saw through the propaganda," Herzog told AFP. "They saw the ridiculous and ludicrous aspects of the regime."
The book, released on Friday, accompanies a film that was first broadcast on German television this week. |
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