{"product_id":"9781935554936","title":"Dead Funny: Telling Jokes in Hitler's Germany","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn Nazi Germany, telling jokes about Hitler could get you killed\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eHitler  and Göring are standing on top of the Berlin radio tower. Hitler says  he wants to do something to put a smile on the Berliners’ faces. Göring  says, “Why don’t you jump?”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eWhen a woman told this joke in  Germany in 1943, she was arrested by the Nazis and sentenced to death by  guillotine—it didn’t matter that her husband was a good German soldier  who died in battle.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIn this groundbreaking work of history,  Rudolph Herzog takes up such stories to show how widespread humor was  during the Third Reich. It’s a fascinating and frightening history: from  the suppression of the anti-Nazi cabaret scene of the 1930s, to jokes  made at the expense of the Nazis during WWII, to the collections of  “whispered jokes” that were published in the immediate aftermath of the  war.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eHerzog argues that jokes provide a hitherto missing chapter  of WWII history. The jokes show that not all Germans were hypnotized by  Nazi propaganda, and, in taking on subjects like Nazi concentration  camps, they record a public acutely aware of the horrors of the regime.  Thus \u003ci\u003eDead Funny\u003c\/i\u003e is a tale of terrible silence and cowardice, but also of occasional and inspiring bravery.","brand":"Melville House Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47166813536496,"sku":"9781935554936","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781935554936_p0.jpg?v=1763656995","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781935554936","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}