Favorite taboo now laughable
Hey, tasteless humor is better than having no humor at all. The natives have not only overcome their Berührungsangst (fear to touch or address) concerning Hitler, they have learned to laugh at him now, too. Walter Moers’ third comic book depicting a ridiculous Adolf Hitler, “Der Bonker”, is proving to be a great success with “the kids” – and practically everybody else here, for that matter. Psychiatrists and other eggheads will probably tell us that irony and satire were helpful ways for the Germans to deal with their past in the past. But the distance to a subject that irony creates is shrinking from year to year when it comes to this subject. It’s a much more bizarre, up-in-your-face kind of humor now. You know, kind of like ole’ A. H. himself. The de-demonization of Hitler is in full swing, in other words, and nobody cares. And this is a good thing. I think.
Ich hock’ in meinem Bonker…
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pardon fuer diese auf absolut nicht inhaltliche form des kommentars, aber die wege des netzes sind zufaellig. i'll come back and read more
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