• janNatan@lemmy.ml
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    6 days ago

    Anybody using google to translate “Lustige Blätter” would get “funny leaves,” but the better translation is “Funny Pages.”

    The German word for leaf can also mean a page of paper, just like the english expression “loose leaf paper.”

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        5 days ago

        Not gonna lie, I love how it increasingly gets more desperate, going from showing off how well they’re doing, to how “horrible the things the allies are doing”, to end on just a lazy caricature of “the enemy”. Also how it shifts from “we’re waging a war of justice!” to “the jews organized WW2”

          • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de
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            12 hours ago

            Probably survival instinct. My grandma’s first husband worked for this right wing paper that was struggling to keep alive. After the Nazis took over it became the premier paper of the region and my grandparent’s life improved significantly.

            I guess other papers had the choice of following the party line or closing down.

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            5 days ago

            May I introduce you to the concept of Gleichschaltung

            Basically, the Nazis went through great lengths to install loyal followers in all aspects of life, including the publishing sector.

            They did also change the organisational structure of pretty much everything they could lay their hands on according to the Führerprinzip

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            5 days ago

            Just reading between the lines, mozkowski, one of the founders, was a member of a Jewish community organization and worked at the magazine until 1927. I’m guessing he was a moderating influence and things changed when he left.