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All these coincidences are, you know, just a coincidence.
“Propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels ended the professional careers of five ‘Aryan’ actors and cabaret announcers by expelling them from the Reich’s Chamber of Culture,” reported The New York Times on Feb. 4, 1939, “on the grounds that ‘in their public appearances they displayed a lack of any positive attitude about National Socialism.’”
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A screenshot of the article, headlined “Goebbels ends career of five ‘Aryan’ actors who made witticisms about the Nazi regime,” went viral on social media.
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The comparison is chillingly obvious: A professional comedian mocks the ruling party, and gets fired. But one detail within the 1939 article particularly caught my attention. “What amused the public most,” the unnamed writer wrote, and “presumably roiled the Nationalist Socialist authorities most — although Dr. Goebbels does not mention it — is that they deftly, but unmistakably, caricatured some gestures, poses, and physical characteristics of National Socialist leaders.”
“Propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels ended the professional careers of five ‘Aryan’ actors and cabaret announcers by expelling them from the Reich’s Chamber of Culture,” reported The New York Times on Feb. 4, 1939, “on the grounds that ‘in their public appearances they displayed a lack of any positive attitude about National Socialism.’”
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A screenshot of the article, headlined “Goebbels ends career of five ‘Aryan’ actors who made witticisms about the Nazi regime,” went viral on social media.
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The comparison is chillingly obvious: A professional comedian mocks the ruling party, and gets fired. But one detail within the 1939 article particularly caught my attention. “What amused the public most,” the unnamed writer wrote, and “presumably roiled the Nationalist Socialist authorities most — although Dr. Goebbels does not mention it — is that they deftly, but unmistakably, caricatured some gestures, poses, and physical characteristics of National Socialist leaders.”
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 Kimmel's suspension.
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