Hitler Jokes

[BurtWorm]

Highly adaptable as Bush jokes:

http://3quarksdaily.blogs.com/3quarksdaily/2006/09/hitler_jokes.html

Hitler Jokes

David Crossland in Spiegel:

A new book about humor under the Nazis gives some interesting insights into life in the Third Reich and breaks yet another taboo in Germany's treatment of its history. Jokes told during the era, says the author, provided the populace with a pressure release.

Hitler visits a lunatic asylum. The patients give the Hitler salute. As he passes down the line he comes across a man who isn't saluting.
"Why aren't you saluting like the others?" Hitler barks.
"Mein Führer, I'm the nurse," comes the answer. "I'm not crazy!"

That joke may not be a screamer, but it was told quite openly along with many others about Hitler and his henchmen in the early years of the Third Reich, according to a new book on humor under the Nazis.

But by the end of the war, a joke could get you killed. A Berlin munitions worker, identified only as Marianne Elise K., was convicted of undermining the war effort "through spiteful remarks" and executed in 1944 for telling this one:

Hitler and Göring are standing on top of Berlin's radio tower. Hitler says he wants to do something to cheer up the people of Berlin. "Why don't you just jump?" suggests Göring.

A fellow worker overheard her telling the joke and reported her to the authorities.

[dooner]

1. gives me an uncomfortable feeling

because I can easily imagine Bush humor being labeled "unpatriotic"...

[derby378]

2. That's the Nazis for you - no sense of humor

[MrPrax]

3. Did they tell light bulb jokes?

"...How many members of the Bush administration does it take to change a light bulb?

1. One to deny that a light bulb needs to be changed;

2. One to attack the patriotism of anyone who says the light bulb needs to be changed;

3. One to blame Clinton for burning out the light bulb;

4. One to arrange the invasion of a country rumored to have a secret stockpile of light bulbs;

5. One to give a billion dollar no-bid contract to Halliburton for the new light bulb;

6. One to arrange a photograph of Bush, dressed as a janitor, standing on a step ladder under the banner: Light Bulb Change Accomplished;

7. One administration insider to resign and write a book documenting in detail how Bush was literally in the dark;

8. One to viciously smear #7;

9. One surrogate to campaign on TV and at rallies on how George Bush has had a strong light-bulb-changing policy all along;

10. And finally one to confuse Americans about the difference between screwing a light bulb and screwing the country.

About -- collection of 'for/against' Bush jokes...
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Oh I can't resist this set either:

How Many Forum Members Does it Take to Change a Light Bulb?

* 1 to change the light bulb then post about it
* 14 to share similar experiences of changing light bulbs and how the light bulb could've been changed differently
* 1 to move it to the Lighting folder
* 2 to argue and then move it to the Electrical folder
* 7 to point out grammar/spelling errors in post about changing light bulbs
* 5 to flame the spell checkers
* 3 to correct spelling/grammar flames
* 6 to argue whether it's a light bulb or lightbulb
* 2 industry professionals to inform the group that the proper tern is Lamp
* 15 know it all who claim they were in the industry, and that "light bulb is perfectly correct
* 19 to post that this forum is not about light bulbs and to please take the discussion to the lightbulb forum
* 11 to defend the posting to this forum saying that we all use light bulbs and therefore the posts are relevant to this forum
* 36 to discuss the dangers of changing light bulbs without a professional opinion
* 5 to post a disclaimer that they are not light bulb experts, nor do they play one on TV and that anyone planning on changing their own light bulb should consult a professional
* 7 to post URLs where one can see examples of different light bulbs
* 4 to post that the URLs were posted incorrectly and then to post the correct URLs
* 3 to post about links they found from the URLs that are relevant to this group which makes light bulbs relevant to this group
* 13 to link all posts to date, quote them in their entirety including all headers and signatures, and add, "Me too."
* 5 to post to the group that they will no longer post because they cannot handle the light bulb controversy
* 4 to say, "Didn't we go through this already a short time ago?"
* 13 to say, "Do a Google search on light bulbs before posting questions about light bulbs."
* 1 forum lurker to respond to the original post 6 months from now and start it all over again

http://bipolar.about.com/cs/humor/a/lightbulbjoke.htm">About -- posted in a section about bipolar disorders?

[Kali]

5. ha ha that second is good!

[Cleita]

6. Classic. The first set needs to be printed out in a flyer and

distributed. This could be something for the freeway bloggers I believe. Can we steal it?

I love it.

[Generic Other]

4. "executed for spiteful remarks"

Speaking out is an act of bravery in such times. Ridicule appears to be a powerful weapon.

[Cleita]

7. Yes, and that is one person who was executed as a warning

to the rest of the Germans. I wonder how long before they get around to starting crap like this domestically to keep us in line?

I think if we keep posting our displeasure on venues like DU, just the shear numbers of us thinking alike will make them think twice about doing something like that.

I do believe that the "executions" of journalists who speak out, like Dan Rather, Bill Moyers and others who have been removed from MSM for speaking up is similar in intent if not in actually executing them physically.

It has the same effect as killing them, by killing their careers.