Springtime, for Hitler and Germany

Classic, obviously, especially if done by Jewish people:

CEO: Y'know, my father died at Auschwitz.
Other guy: Oh.
CEO: Yes, he fell off one of the guard towers.

However, since this is the only joke anyone has ever heard him tell, it's possible that it's literal truth.

("censored" sketch from the last Kids in the Hall ep I believe)

they're not as funny.

Do make female castration jokes? No chance. Stoning jokes? Not this side of the Life of Brian. Maybe a Chelmsford 123 type scenario with a poor US envoy trying to administrate over there and some plucky locals who come up with hilarious and hair-brained schemes. Throw in gentle Last of the Summer Wine material wherein people end episodes rolling down mountains in abandoned tanks and you're probably laughing.

Or a Brush Strokes-style young lothario heroin grower who is constantly close to getting the girl, but she always ends up washing down so much of his yen pox she becomes a tired, inhuman ghost of her former self.

Nah, sorry, can't see it.

Sadly, the web address is misleading, as Coldcut did not put this together.

There. Can't think of any reasons though. I'll go ask my grandparents.

no.

I don't like George Bush either, and he is also very funny.

I think it would be great if some actual Nazis starting posting to this thread and complaining about how we are belittling their wonderful philosophy.

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If someone makes a joke we perceive as offensive, fine, now we know what that person thinks and can debate it with him. It's better than just supressing everything we think and feel. That's probably the worst resultof the political correctness movement, the idea that not saying something, or tempering what we do say, is better than actually saying what we feel.

Friedelinde Wagner provides us with an example of [Hitler]'s teasing. Goering and Goebbels were both present at the time that he said to the Wagner family:

"You all know what a volt is and an ampere, don't you? Right. But do you know what a goebbels, a goering are? A goebbels is the amount of nonsense one man can speak in one hour. And a goering is the amount of metal that can be pinned on one breast."

I read he was a gifted mimic in the Larvell Jones of Police Academy mold, and when he was boring his captive audiences with old war tales he would add his repertoire of artillery/drum rolls/horse clopping sound fx and probably could have done a mean human beatbox.

did a good chamberlain apparently. if mimickry's aided by having someone's number, presumably a good goebbels and goering too

After all these years we finally know who he thought he was kidding

I read a book on humour inside the third reich in the summer that my undergrad in university was ending. About what everyday people were able to say within a totalitarian state in order to get by and keep living.
NOt sure which it was may have been Underground Humour in Nazi Germany, 1933-1945 by F. K. M. Hillenbrand

BUt things seemed to be chaotic and people needed to have some outlet to keep them going.

Strasser threatened to split the Party if a definite program could not be agreed upon. Hitler avoided the situation as long as he possibly could in the hope that something might happen, that the situation would somehow solve itself. When it did not he agreed to Strasser's demand for a meeting in Leipzig at which their differences could be thrashed out. Strasser was in the restaurant at the appointed hour. Hitler came late. Hardly had he sat down to the table when he excused himself in order to go to the toilet. Strasser waited for some time and when Hitler did not return he began making inquiries. To his amazement he discovered that instead of going to the toilet Hitler had slipped out the back door and driven back to Munich.

classic pwnage and that's how you nip factionalism in the bud!

Volker Ullrich's completely humourless second volume on Hitler was completed last year but is still unpublished in Germany, so perhaps it might be next year before there is an English edition.

that's how you nip factionalism in the bud!

night of the bog skives

a+!

think we talked about the ullrich book a few years ago and i was like oh i'm def reading that soon. today i can report i almost bought it

today i can report i almost bought it

Which was Hitler said after the von Stauffenberg plot.

hah!

strong showing for "classic" here

feel like a broken clock on this topic tbh

In gratitude for the services he had provided to German-Japanese friendship, Hitler presented Oshima with the highest German medal, the Large Golden Cross of the Order of the German Eagle. Afterwards the Führer amused his entourage by telling them he had temporarily forgotten what the medal was called when he was presenting it to the ambassador.

why am i picturing Johnson doing that shtick?

Hitler clearly had a terrible Tight Five.