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Franz Josef Popp (14 January 1886 in Vienna – 29 July 1954 in Stuttgart) was one of three men responsible for the founding of BMW AG and the First General Director of BMW AG from 1922 to 1942. A number of different candidates have been put forward as the “founders” of BMW AG. In the absence of Karl Rapp, Gustav Otto, Max Friz or Camillo ...
Sep 1, 2006 · A new book and film on humour under the Third Reich, Heil Hitler, The Pig is Dead!, reveal the subversive jokes average Germans dared to whisper while the Nazis had the country in a stranglehold.
Nov 7, 2019 · A sprightly, attractively composed coming-of-age comedy set in World War II Germany, “Jojo Rabbit” is an audacious high-wire act: a satire in which a buffoonish Adolf Hitler delivers some of ...
Mar 10, 2017 · As a gondolier serenades them in Italian, Renee Firestone and her friend Elly Gross argue about the possibility of finding humor in the Holocaust. Firestone insists that humor is an important tool ...
Feb 15, 2008 · It argues that humor is a legitimate coping mechanism and a means of dealing with the incomprehensible tragedies of the Shoah, particularly for second generation survivors. Say Rabbi Moshe Waldocks, co-editor of The Big Book Of Jewish Humor: In every joke is the hint of the hidden horror. This is not laughter through tears, it is laughter ...
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Oct 26, 2020 · Popp was the daughter of Franz Josef Popp, the general director of BMW. Eighteen years old to Seaman’s 25, she connected immediately with Seaman. Nine days after the two met, on June 24, 1938, Seaman was back behind the wheel of the new V-12–powered Mercedes W154 at the Nürburgring.
Sep 9, 2001 · Germans cannot share Americans' ability to laugh at Hitler jokes, as Broadway audiences do at The Producers, but some Germans are believed to have found safety valve in America's mockery; two ...
