Laughing With Hitler

Laughing With Hitler

6.5/100h 59m2006
Laughing With Hitler

Overview

"Laughing with Hitler" is a journey into a supposedly humorless time. In the Third Reich, however, the Führer and his Nazi bigwigs were laughed at. The political jokes of the Hitler years were a barometer of true public opinion. But those who dared to make jokes critical of the regime lived dangerously. In the early Nazi era, Hitler jokes were punished as "insidious", during the war even as "undermining of military strength" and the penalty was the death penalty! The conflict with the Nazi authorities ended more mildly for other pranksters: the cheeky cabaret artist Werner Finck was deported to a concentration camp, but was released again.

Genres

DocumentaryComedy

Production Companies

Brümmer & Herzog Filmproduktion
BBC Four
NDR
Ilona Grundmann Filmproduction

Additional Information

Original Title:Heil Hitler, das Schwein ist tot! - Humor unterm Hakenkreuz
Original Language:German
Status:Released

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