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Book looks at humor in Hitler's Germany [audio 9min]

A new book, Heil Hitler: The Pig Is Dead, looks at the jokes people told in Adolph Hitler's Germany, where, by the end of World War II, jokes could mean a death sentence. Guest: Rudolf Herzog, filmmaker and author of Heil Hitler, das Schwein ist tot! Lachen unter Hitler: Komik und Humor im Dritten Reich.
Read entire article at NPR "Talk of the Nation"