Hillenbrand F. K. M. - Underground humour in Nazi Germany


Author : Hillenbrand F. K. M.
Title : Underground humour in Nazi Germany 1933-1945
Year : 1995

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In 1982 I was given some slender volumes of anti-Nazi jokes collected clandestinely between 1933 and 1945 but published in Germany and Austria only after the collapse of the Third Reich. At the same time I was encouraged to make available to a fairly wide English readership some of these anti-authoritarian responses of ordinary Germans to the régime under which they lived. It soon became clear to me that this would be a difficult undertaking, as it would be necessary to make German humour not just accessible but also acceptable to the English way of thinking. And by degrees the book came to be more than just an accumulation of political jokes. What counts is the motivation underlying them; for many people found in the telling of such jokes their only means of protest against the police state in which they lived—and only a few engaged in active resistance to Hitler. I wish to thank first of all my publisher, Andrew Wheatcroft, for accepting my book. I am also grateful to him for recommending the book Between the Wars 1919–1939, The Cartoonists’ Vision by Roy Douglas as a guide to the selection of the best contemporary cartoons which of course add extra punch to the jokes. I am most grateful to Professor John Hiden of Bradford University for his early interest in my work, for reading the synopsis and for his welcome criticisms. I also wish to thank Dr Jill Stephenson of Edinburgh University, who read part of the book early on, for her valuable comments. Dr Margaret Whidden deserves full praise for her work with the word-processor, despite many technical adversities, and for the meticulous attention she applied to every aspect of the text. A lucky find by my son, Dr Peter Hillenbrand, introduced me to the artist, Mrs Heinke Jenkins. Her linocut ‘The whispering’ most appropriately reveals the ‘German glance’, i.e. the way in which most anti-Nazi jokes were told during those years, and I therefore chose the print as the book’s cover illustration and frontispiece. I am most grateful for the artist’s kind permission to make use of her work in this way. My thanks are also due to the publishers of the books from which I selected the illustrations. All of these are contemporaneous with the jokes presented in the text. Last, but not least, my heartfelt thanks go to my son, Professor Robert Hillenbrand of Edinburgh University, without whom this book would never have been written. He suggested that I should write it, being well acquainted with my personal experiences during the Nazi years and my sharp memories of that time. His linguistic expertise, his command of literary style, his ever-ready help and his unflagging patience with my shortcomings were indispensable. His continuing interest in getting the book published was crowned by his most generous offer of editing it, for which I am most grateful. ...

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