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October 18, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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The Nazis did not tolerate ridicule
Article clipped from The Montreal Star * Herr Goebbels Angered By Anti-Nazi Wit Comedians Banned For Humorous Remarks on Leaders: * BERLIN, Feb. 4 - (U.P.) When Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels yesterday blasted Germany's cafe society, he called it "society rabble and intellectual snobs," for laughing at comedians who make Nazi leaders the butts of their jokes. Goebbels turned his anger upon the "society rabble" after announcing that live German actors had been banned from the stage for publicly rediculing Nazi party and state functionaries. He بماسمفمسمنمطاللمطا party and state functionaries. He denied that there was any lack of humor in Nazi Germany, but said that it must be kept "good- natured, decent and clean." "There is plenty of humor in Germany, more than enough," he said in three and one-half column editorial in the Nazi party's newspape Voelkischer Beobachter. "But we do not per- mit ourselves to be ridiculed.” The five actors were W Or- ner Finck, actor-author: Pete Sachse, vaudeville comedian, and Helmut Buth, Wilhelm Meissner and Manfred Dlugi, the latter three members of a vaudeville combination known as. "The Three Rulands." The five were said to have been warned re- peatedly to stop making jokes about the Nazis.
September 18, 2025 at 12:10 PM