Humor and satire can be effective ways of expressing criticism and relieving tension. During the years of the Nazi regime, many people used humor as a means of resistance and survival.
humor & satire
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American College Students and the Nazi Threat
Americans and the Holocaust"What War? it's Homecoming at Illinois!"
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Artistic Responses to Persecution
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustBodo Morgenstern, "Hitler's Dream"
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Jewish Displaced Persons in Postwar Europe
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustHerbert Friedman, Purim Play Photograph
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Artistic Responses to Persecution
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustHorst Rotholz, "Purim Song"
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Artists and Visual Culture in Wartime Europe
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustPage from the Wartime Album of George Byfield
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Post-Holocaust Testimony
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustSamson Först, "Der Grager"
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Exclusion of Jews in Nazi Germany
Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi RuleShoah Outtake with Inge Deutschkron
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Artists and Visual Culture in Wartime Europe
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustZine from German-Occupied Greece