Heil Hitler, Das Schwein ist tot! - Humor unterm Hakenkreuz (2006)

Original title

Heil Hitler, das Schwein ist tot! - Humor unterm Hakenkreuz

Directed by

Rudolph Herzog

Genre

documentary television film

Country

Germany

Runtime

45 min

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary looks at jokes and humor under Nazi rule in Germany. It shows how people used political jokes to express dissent and how the regime punished those caught telling them. Some comedians were sent to concentration camps while others faced execution.

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