Jewish Community Center of San Francisco (Venue Partner)
3200 California St
415.292.1200
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Dead Funny
- When
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Wednesday Feb 1 (7pm)
- Where
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Directions: California at Presidio
- Price
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$10-25
- Links
Is it okay to laugh at Hitler? What about the Holocaust? While Charlie Chaplin and Mel Brooks famously satirized the image of the “ridiculous Führer”, Hitler jokes are by no means a post-war invention. In Dead Funny filmmaker and author Rudolph Herzog (son of Werner) shows that Germans, both oppressed and oppressors, used comedy to deal with the reality of living – and dying – under The Third Reich. Herzog pushes back against the argument that people were unaware of Hitler’s demonic maneuvering. The truth is more troubling: Germans knew much about the actions of their government, joked about it occasionally and failed to act.
