Rudolph Herzog: "Heil Hitler, The Pig is Dead"

[tongodeon]

Yesterday on NPR they interviewed a German named Rudolph Herzog who wrote the book "Heil Hitler, The Pig is Dead", a collection of jokes that the German people told about Hitler while he was in power

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[qp4]

I looked over a copy at Border's. (I don't buy books from them because I think they're assholes. From them squashing out my local bookseller's with their mass marketed crap [although any book you order they'll be happy to get] to that crappy development plan they're in on Ponce in Atlanta, I just can't spend money there.)

Looked like Nazi apologist crap to me. "Oh the German people really hated Hitler! They were just afraid and so they made secret jokes while they ratted out their neighbors for not being patriotic/aryan enough!"

I hope that guy gets hit by a car.

[qp4]

Clarification: I was reading about it in a magazine. I didn't read the whole book, but it had large excerpts in it, enough that it was like leafing through the book itself (at least to me, of course, I only look at pictures anyhow). It had more than the article you linked to (which I also read in the Atlanta Journal Constitution), and that's why I read what I did.

[tongodeon]

In the interviews I've read he *attacks* apologists. His main point seems to be "the war generation says they didn't know about the camps but their jokes tell another story".