Those jokes were told by Germans during the Nazi dictatorship. They became darker as the war prolonged. The interesting part is how ordinary Germans judged their leadership and how much they knew what was going on. We shouldn’t forget that it was very risky to tell these jokes and that punishment was randomly. One could get away with a warning while the next could be sent to the scaffold. I find it important to preserve these jokes for they tell us a lot about the attitude of this time. This is my second attempt to post this video. I had to remove my first one due to copy right claims. The song I used is “Veronika, der Lenz ist da!” by the Comedian Harmonists.
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DrGull1888 says:
January 21, 2012 at 12:31 pm (UTC 0)
@CytotoxicTrev Indeed. They also used “My dog jumps that high” or “The Mountains are this high.” Today it’s used by Neonazis to disguise their not? too noble attitude.
CytotoxicTrev says:
January 21, 2012 at 12:43 pm (UTC 0)
One I read was that people would greet each other (presumably in private) with the Nazi salute but instead of “Heil? Hitler” they would say “The snow stood this high”
DrGull1888 says:
January 21, 2012 at 12:47 pm (UTC 0)
@KniffoKnollo Das? stimmt.
KniffoKnollo says:
January 21, 2012 at 12:54 pm (UTC 0)
similar jokes the people told each other in? east-germany (cold war) about the communistic regime…
DrGull1888 says:
January 21, 2012 at 1:09 pm (UTC 0)
@rlohmann1 Possible. It would? fit.
rlohmann1 says:
January 21, 2012 at 1:47 pm (UTC 0)
(to DrGull1888)
Probably Werner Finck.?
DrGull1888 says:
January 21, 2012 at 1:52 pm (UTC 0)
@sailor61177 Oh yeah. They also mocked Göring with his daughter’s name, Edda. They said Edda is the short form of “Ewiger Dank dem Adjutanten”? which means “Eternal gratitude to the adjutant”.
sailor61177 says:
January 21, 2012 at 1:54 pm (UTC 0)
I do not recall the man’s name,but a German comedian got into trouble when he was talking about Goering’s new baby. He said something about “Sein oder? nicht sein”, which mean either “To be or not to be”, or “His or not his”.
DrGull1888 says:
January 21, 2012 at 2:45 pm (UTC 0)
Possible. I heard it the first time from my grandpa and later from a school? teacher. Both claimed that this was an original Franconian joke. Later, I read this joke was originally brought up by “Kleines Theater” in Berlin. But nevertheless Beldemer Lippert is possible as origin.
Steffenelis says:
January 21, 2012 at 2:51 pm (UTC 0)
The “joke” at 2:47 origins from “Lippats Josef”, an Original of Hunsrück, told us father, who has been raised there. A poor old monger of little things, wandering from village to village. He carried the stuff at the left and right hanging from a wooden “Joch” placed over his shoulders. I was born 2 years after the war and in? holydays in the village of grandmother I saw him, getting angry because the boys teased and chaffed him. He took stones and threw them in their direction.
nunctecognovi says:
January 21, 2012 at 3:23 pm (UTC 0)
yes, they were lucky. But probably their mother couldn’t make it.?
DrGull1888 says:
January 21, 2012 at 4:17 pm (UTC 0)
What a shame. At least they? didn’t end on the cinder pile.
nunctecognovi says:
January 21, 2012 at 5:17 pm (UTC 0)
the Trio Lescano too had serious problems with the race laws because they were? jewish. They went to South America and continued to sing over there.
brooktagging says:
January 21, 2012 at 5:44 pm (UTC 0)
quite funny really.? thanks for another interesting and thought provoking video.
DrGull1888 says:
January 21, 2012 at 6:34 pm (UTC 0)
Interesting, Germany also had some non German stars in those days. E.g. Zara Leander was Swedish, Lillian Harvey? was English, Marik Rökk was Hungarian, Johannes Heesters was Dutch.
The Comedian Harmonists were 6 buddies from Berlin. The band dispanded due to Nazi Germany’s race laws.
nunctecognovi says:
January 21, 2012 at 7:15 pm (UTC 0)
The Trio Lescano were three Dutch sisters that? used to sing in Italian in the thirties and forties. The lyrics of their songs are silly too but I like their voices. Probably every country has its own Commedian Harmonists
DrGull1888 says:
January 21, 2012 at 7:59 pm (UTC 0)
Possible. This Easy Listening-Music didn’t change much between the 30ies and 50ies. I presume Ma Le Gambe and Maramao are from the 50ies, aren’t they? The two I mentioned? were from the 30ies. I find their silly lyrics proper to the subject and the pictures of my video.
nunctecognovi says:
January 21, 2012 at 8:43 pm (UTC 0)
I think both of them are beautiful, they remember to me other old songs like: MA LE GAMBE and Maramao by trio lescano and Enzo Aita.?
DrGull1888 says:
January 21, 2012 at 9:37 pm (UTC 0)
I used first “Ich wollt, ich wär ein Huhn” performed? by Lillian Harvey. But this song is owned by WMG and youtube blocks every soundtrack which is owned by WMG. My videos don’t work without soundtrack and therefore I removed it. A pity, it had almost 400 views.
In the actual version I used “Veronika, der Lenz ist da”, performed by the Commedian Harmonists.
nunctecognovi says:
January 21, 2012 at 10:28 pm (UTC 0)
why did you have to remove it? Anyway the music is beautiful as well? in this video. What is the title of the song?
DrGull1888 says:
January 21, 2012 at 10:35 pm (UTC 0)
Thanks a lot. A pity? I had to remove the first one for the music was better.
nunctecognovi says:
January 21, 2012 at 11:04 pm (UTC 0)
very funny?