Rudolph Herzog

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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Society & Culture

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2011

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Writer and filmmaker Rudolph Herzog explores the jokes employed by the oppressed and the oppressors of Germany's Third Reich in his new book, Dead Funny: Humor in Hitler's Germany.

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0:29.0	It's the Sound of Young America.
0:31.0	I'm Jesse Thorne.
0:32.0	My guest on the program is the filmmaker and author Rudolf Herzog.
0:36.0	His new book is called Dead Funny,
0:38.0	Humor in Hitler's Germany.
0:40.0	It's an exploration of humor in Germany
0:44.0	before, during and immediately after the Nazi years,
0:48.0	including both the humor of the Nazis
0:52.0	of their subjects and of their targets.
0:56.0	Rudolf, welcome to the Sound of Young America.
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