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Kladderadatsch, founded in Berlin in 1848, was liberal politically but generally mild in its social satire. It remained for Simplicissimus , founded in Munich in 1896, to launch a more radical...
The reign of Kaiser Wilhelm II was a transitional period in German history when the traditions of the nineteenth century were coming into conflict with the emer...
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May 22, 2014 · Long before the Nazi regime committed its singular crimes, it had become remarkably popular in Germany (Evans 2006). Voting records from 1933 and 1934 reveal the effect of one factor that, according to many historians, boosted support for the regime – the building of the Autobahn. Using detailed information on the geography of road-building ...
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Section 130 of the German criminal code criminalizes certain types of hate speech. The law bans incitement to hatred and insults that assault human dignity against people based on their racial, national, religious or ethnic background. In post-World War II Germany, it has been used to prosecute racist and antisemitic threats and slurs, and it carri...
German law also prohibits a range of personal insults, from malicious gossip against private citizens to defamation against politicians. Like Section 130, it dates back to the 19th century. One element of the law — a ban on defiling the memory of the dead — has been used to try Holocaust deniers. Prosecutors can seek fines or up to two years impris...
These provisions ban the distribution of online and offline propaganda and the public display or distribution of “flags, insignia, uniforms, slogans and forms of greeting” belonging to political parties and organizations that have been deemed unconstitutional by the Federal Constitutional Court, such as Nazis and neo-Nazis. In one prominent case, t...
The most recent addition to Germany’s federal speech laws authorizes heavy fines against internet platforms found to not promptly report and remove hate speech, terror threats and child exploitation. The original Network Enforcement Act, passed in 2017, required social media companies to take down such posts — in most cases, within 24 hours after r...
- Dan Glaun
satire, allegedly the official and dominant form of humour, was not well-received by the National Socialistic public. This article will reconstruct the rise of a third form, the "German humour", and discuss the reasons for its success by looking at why satire failed. Whenever historical research analyses the meaning of laughter, it construes
Aug 30, 2019 · 30 August 2019. By Kristina Moorehead,Features correspondent. Getty. Hitler (Credit: Getty) The BBC’s German Service used satire to reach ordinary Germans in World War Two. Its aim was to break...
Goebbels used a combination of modern media, such as films and radio, and traditional campaigning tools such as posters and newspapers to reach as many people as possible. It was through this technique that he began to build an image of Hitler as a strong, stable leader that Germany needed to become a great power again.
