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Silencing satire: Goebbels' 1939 political comedy purge in Nazi Germany
The New York Times reported in 1939 that Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels terminated the careers of five prominent ...
Online users reposted the newspaper article from Feb. 4, 1939, following ABC's initial September 2025 announcement of ...
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The terrifying Nazi precedent for Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension — and the reasons to stay hopeful
Joseph Goebbels ended the careers of five actors in 1939 for making fun of Nazis, in an alarming foreshadowing of Jimmy ...
Clockwise from lower L: Raven Whitley, Elizabeth Laidlaw, Guy Van Swearingen, and Tim Decker in Berlin at Court Theatre Credit: Michael Brosilow An ascendant fascist right, a lame-duck “opposition ...
One night in 1933, after Hitler had taken power, a Jewish journalist in Berlin awoke from uneasy dreams, drenched in sweat. “The thought occurred to me,” she later wrote, “that I might not be the only ...
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