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TIL that during WWII a German catholic priest was arrested and executed
for telling a joke about Hitler
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_M%C3%BCller_(priest)?wprov=sfti1...
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|u/johncoktosin - 22 hours
|
|The joke: Müller was arrested after repeating a political joke about a
|wounded soldier on his deathbed, who asked to see the people for whom he
|was laying down his life. The nurse laid a portrait of Hitler on his one
|side, and a portrait of Göring on the other. Then, he gasped: “Now I can
|die like Jesus Christ.”


  |u/Beautiful_Welcome_33 - 20 hours
  |
  |That's actually a pretty good bit


    |u/OnkelMickwald - 17 hours
    |
    |Which in Germany means a guaranteed death sentence.


      |u/Kettle_Whistle_ - 8 hours
      |
      |When everyone thinks of comedy, we universally think, “Yeah.
      |Germans: can’t be serious one damned moment, even in a world war.”
      |Pick your spots!


    |u/tistimenotmyrealname - 19 hours
    |
    |Imagine getting hanged for a bad joke


      |u/Beautiful_Welcome_33 - 19 hours
      |
      |Imagine being *hung* enough to make that dad joke anyway. In front
      |of *Nazis* no less.


        |u/Kettle_Whistle_ - 8 hours
        |
        |Being so *hung*, yet…in a show of Holy Chad-ness…vowing never to
        |use that…*hung*-ness.


          |u/MistbornInterrobang - 17 hours
          |
          |Imagine defending Nazis of the Third Reich and Hitler's SDE at
          |being compared to a common thief from Christian theology and
          |responding by having a Catholic priest murdered.


            |u/Necessary-Reading605 - 17 hours
            |
            |Yup.


            |u/tistimenotmyrealname - 16 hours
            |
            |Cant imagine that, who would do such thing?


          |u/redditmodsblowpole - 17 hours
          |
          |they’re talking about literal nazis from world war 2 bro


            |u/tistimenotmyrealname - 16 hours
            |
            |Really? The real ones from the Indiana Jones movie? The ones
            |you play every second round in battlefield? The alive kind
            |of cod nazi zombies? Bruhhhhh


              |u/ASavageWarlock - 9 hours
              |
              |No, the kind that those are mockeries of. The kind that
              |tortured and killed millions of Jews, Christian’s, blacks,
              |and gays. (Mostly Jews tho)   Do you think the nazis
              |aren’t real?


          |u/Cbfalbo - 17 hours
          |
          |Do you guys know how to speak outside of dog whistles?


            |u/tistimenotmyrealname - 17 hours
            |
            |Dont know what the dogwhistle is supposed to be in here.
            |Right wing comedians trying to be funny, bomb, playing
            |Victim. That was a good joke by a good man, Dont know why
            |bad jokes should be hailed.


              |u/solagrowa - 15 hours
              |
              |Nobody knows what you are talking about. Lol


                |u/tistimenotmyrealname - 13 hours
                |
                |Yeah. Me neither anymore. Too much lost. Ill take the l


              |u/ASavageWarlock - 9 hours
              |
              |I’m sure a German priest telling a dad joke was a right
              |wing comedian, and by bombed you mean he was literally
              |murdered?   Are you pro nazi or anti Christian?  I can’t
              |tell


          |u/ASavageWarlock - 9 hours
          |
          |So you’re denying that the man was executed by the nazis for
          |telling the joke that got him executed by the nazis    Bot,
          |return for reprogramming, you’ve got several bugs and a syntax
          |error


            |u/GopnikOli - 4 hours
            |
            |Why do people always resort to calling people bots I
            |genuinely don’t understand it, I’m pretty sure it was an
            |example of poor understanding of English given the person
            |you’ve been responding to is German.


              |u/ASavageWarlock - 4 hours
              |
              |For starters, it can mean someone with npc energy. In this
              |sense it’s an insult more than a realism  For seconds,
              |when either a fresh very low karma no flair no post
              |account exists or someone is clearly not interfacing with
              |other users coherently more often than not it’s a bot. In
              |this sense it’s a realism not an insult.  And considering
              |the dead internet we live in now, bots are all too common.


      |u/Waste_Crab_3926 - 17 hours
      |
      |He was beheaded.


        |u/tistimenotmyrealname - 16 hours
        |
        |And they send the fucking bill for it to his family.


      |u/Pristine_Speech4719 - 14 hours
      |
      |You should read The Joke, by Milan Kundera, or the movie (which I
      |didn't realise existed until
      |now): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Joke_(film)


  |u/StandUpForYourWights - 21 hours
  |
  |Roland Freisler really was a complete piece of shit.


    |u/helican - 21 hours
    |
    |Yes and he sadly couldn't even be tried for all his crimes.


      |u/StandUpForYourWights - 21 hours
      |
      |Mind you it’s fitting that a bomb dropped on his head


        |u/helican - 21 hours
        |
        |Yeah, it's a silver lining. But it would have truly been fitting
        |for him to end up at Nürnberg with the others.


          |u/StandUpForYourWights - 20 hours
          |
          |I damn him for his judicial murder of Hans and Sophie Scholl


            |u/MistbornInterrobang - 17 hours
            |
            |Two of the absolute bravest kids in all of history. I wish
            |more people knew of them


            |u/GarysCrispLettuce - 20 hours
            |
            |I must have missed that episode of Peep Show


              |u/dazed_and_bamboozled - 15 hours
              |
              |r/unexpectedpeepshow


        |u/looktowindward - 17 hours
        |
        |A bomb was dropped on his head from a raid led by a Jewish
        |American Air Force Colonel, Robert Rosenthal


        |u/kunymonster4 - 19 hours
        |
        |A bomb dropped by a bomber wing led by a Jewish guy too.


          |u/StandUpForYourWights - 16 hours
          |
          |There is a Yahweh!


        |u/benjam3n - 11 hours
        |
        |Fucker almost survived the war too. Almost hahaha


        |u/TheGreatCornolio682 - 4 hours
        |
        |And its fitting that even the Nazis disowned him.   No official
        |showed to his own burial, and even his wife's family refused to
        |have his name added to the grave marker.  If it werent for the
        |war, Freisler would have been purged sooner or later. Hitler
        |never forgot that when he was a WW1 POW in Russia he
        |collaborated with the Bolcheviks, and his raving performance was
        |a PR disgrace even for the Nazis.


    |u/FocalorLucifuge - 20 hours
    |
    |My only regret is that he died instantly when that stonework fell on
    |his Nazi head. I'd much rather have seen him hanged after a trial
    |and conviction at Nuremberg.


      |u/GodzillaDrinks - 19 hours
      |
      |In fairness the only ranking Nazis who got the deaths they really
      |deserved were Oskar Dirlewanger (beaten to death in prison by
      |Polish Partisans) and Reinhard Heydrich. Heydrich was the target
      |of an ~~failed~~ assassination by ~~Hungarian~~ Czech Partisans.
      |Their gun jammed, but Heydrich insisted on staying and attacking
      |them, this allowed them to lob a bomb at his car. The horsehair
      |stitching in his seat got into his wounds. He did after a week in
      |horrible agony when his wounds became septic).


        |u/LSDTigers - 15 hours
        |
        |A bunch of Nazi war criminals and collaborators wound up getting
        |theirs trying to flee Yugoslavia, where they'd been inflicting
        |unimaginable horrors on the populace - look up "Serb cutters" if
        |you feel like ruining your day. They fled west to surrender to
        |the British because they figured they'd have a higher chance of
        |survival and escaping justice.   The British told them that
        |their surrender was accepted, and that they needed to board
        |these trains to go west to British and American POW camps. After
        |the doors were locked the British then sent the trains east to
        |be met by the Yugoslavian partisans that had been hunted and
        |slaughtered for years by these nazis, Ustaše members and other
        |collaborators.   The partisans ended up executing so many in
        |abandoned mine shafts that they ran out of bullets and started
        |using mining equipment, then just throwing groups of nazis into
        |mine shafts and dropping grenades on top of them. They then
        |sealed the mines with concrete, and a fair number were still
        |alive afterwards judging from the positioning of bodies found by
        |later excavations.


          |u/GodzillaDrinks - 15 hours
          |
          |THAT! Another commenter asked what I would do with the Nazis
          |that needed to be executed. And the only note I have on top of
          |"buried alive in a disused mine shaft" is making them work a
          |12+ hour shift at an Applebees first.


            |u/x31b - 11 hours
            |
            |Something something Geneva Convention.


          |u/ahdareuu - 6 hours
          |
          |That’s AWESOME. 


        |u/RollinThundaga - 17 hours
        |
        |>the only ranking nazis who got the death they deserved were....
        |The hangman at Nuremburg for the highest ranking Nazis was a GI
        |who had helped with a hanging once back  in Texas and
        |exaggerated his experience to get the gig.   In a proper
        |hanging, the drop causes the neck to be snapped by the rope,
        |resulting in instant death. There was even a set of tables made
        |by a judge who frequently ordered hangings, which described the
        |appropriate weights of rope and length of drop to be used in
        |relation to the weight of the convict to ensure this.  The
        |hangman at Nuremburg apparently hadn't done his reading, because
        |he botched every hanging. The convicted were hanged back-to-
        |back, so the next man, sitting nearby, could hear the
        |stangulation of the man before him.  ...IMO, and this is a
        |subject very affected by opinion, the closeness, horror, and
        |surety thereof as regarded their demise was an even crueler fate
        |than the confusion and panic of their victims at the camps. I'd
        |call that an appropriate death.


          |u/DefenestrationPraha - 17 hours
          |
          |Joseph Malta's inexperience stands in contrast with Albert
          |Pierrepoint, who hanged war criminals sentenced by British
          |courts. Pierrepoint, one of the most prolific hangmen of the
          |20th century, was very professional and his "clients" had
          |usually instant, clean death.


          |u/Greene_Mr - 15 hours
          |
          |One of them was Amon Goeth, who had to be hanged *three
          |separate times* to ensure his death.


            |u/C-ZP0 - 9 hours
            |
            |Ralph Fiennes Did an amazing job portraying him in
            |Schindler’s List.


          |u/Throw-away-rando - 12 hours
          |
          |Leading to one of the most amazing band names: Spandau ballet.
          |The name, of course, referring to the movement of the feet of
          |the hanged nazis.


            |u/FocalorLucifuge - 12 hours
            |
            |Wow. TIL.  Vies with Joy Division for being a IYKYK cool
            |band name.


              |u/Throw-away-rando - 12 hours
              |
              |True


          |u/GodzillaDrinks - 17 hours
          |
          |Oh, I'm aware. But its still quite pleasant compared to what
          |they deserved.


            |u/RollinThundaga - 16 hours
            |
            |I can't think of a worse death besides some sort of slow
            |drowning...  How would you have killed them?


              |u/GodzillaDrinks - 16 hours
              |
              |I'd make them work a 12 hour shift at Applebees. Then,
              |light them on fire.


          |u/releasethedogs - 14 hours
          |
          |Singapore had a similar table for hangings. I found it once
          |when I was suicidal. I was all ready to go and nearly used it
          |but then something happened at the last minute that made me
          |reconsider.


        |u/DefenestrationPraha - 17 hours
        |
        |"Heydrich was the target of an ~~failed~~ assassination by
        |~~Hungarian Partisans~~."  Czech soldiers trained in the UK and
        |parachuted into occupied Czechia by special flights.


          |u/dolphone - 16 hours
          |
          |Operation Anthropoid!


      |u/Eddiethegoldenmaiden - 20 hours
      |
      |Meh, they were all sociopath, sociopath dont feel things like
      |humiliations by trials or pain of hanging, they dont have feelings
      |or emotions like that of a human. Theyre no different than the
      |criminals of today


        |u/FocalorLucifuge - 20 hours
        |
        |Sociopaths have blunted versions of the normal human feelings
        |and responses. They do feel fear though. Not as often or as
        |deeply as neurotypicals. But when it's hopeless and they know
        |they're about to be extinguished, they will feel something and
        |it would've been well-earned.


          |u/Dockhead - 20 hours
          |
          |Contrasting “sociopath” and “neurotypical” seems dubious to me
          |as sociopath is no longer a medically recognized category—now
          |the “psychopath spectrum” has eclipsed sociopathy. I still
          |think sociopath is a useful term, but etymologically all it
          |really refers to is pathological behavior arising from
          |socialization and life experience rather than innate brain
          |structure. That’s kind of vague, as social pathology can have
          |all sorts of different sources and manifestations.   I *do*
          |think a lot of the Nazis were sociopaths rather than
          |psychopaths, especially the early ones that had served in WWI.
          |Through insane, unimaginable trauma and indoctrination they
          |were turned into monsters. I don’t indulge fantasies of
          |torturing them or anything, though. I tend to think they
          |should simply be thoroughly shot


            |u/FocalorLucifuge - 19 hours
            |
            |I appreciate the nuance, but frankly, I don't want to get
            |into a debate on this tangential topic. Neither sociopathy
            |nor psychopathy are "medically recognised". It's all just
            |ASPD.  In any case, this is about wishing for a worse fate
            |to have befallen a truly scummy human being.


        |u/Amaskingrey - 16 hours
        |
        |Inability to feel pain is a conditiok called analgesia, and
        |doesnt have anything to do with the psychopathy spectrum


    |u/MistbornInterrobang - 17 hours
    |
    |It's really infuriating that he was killed instantly by the masonry
    |that collapsed and crushed him. If anyone ever deserved to have
    |their body partially crushed and to die from slowly, painfully
    |bleeding out, it's Roland Freisler.


  |u/Sunberries84 - 20 hours
  |
  |A little unfair to St. Dismas, but still *very* funny.


    |u/No-Age-1044 - 20 hours
    |
    | Makes you wonder which was the good one.


      |u/Predator_Hicks - 19 hours
      |
      |The other Göring, Albert Göring, who used the influence of his
      |brother to hide Jews


        |u/Im_the_Moon44 - 13 hours
        |
        |That’s kind of like what a relative of mine did. Her brother-in-
        |law was Reichenau, so no one suspected her of being a part of
        |the resistance smuggling Jews out of Germany. And she used that
        |and the family’s historical ties to the Swedish Church to save
        |hundreds of people.


        |u/No-Age-1044 - 12 hours
        |
        |I know.  I mean which one was the “good one” of both criminals,
        |aka Sant Dimas.


  |u/n1gr3d0 - 21 hours
  |
  |I don't get it.


    |u/MrZebrowskisPenis - 21 hours
    |
    |Jesus was crucified between two thieves.


      |u/GnomeNot - 18 hours
      |
      |One of which mocked him and the other asked him to remember him
      |when he entered his father’s kingdom.


        |u/sourkroutamen - 14 hours
        |
        |To which Jesus replied, "I'll see you later today."
        |(approximately)


          |u/CryptidGrimnoir - 10 hours
          |
          |Luke 23:43  **Jesus answered him, “Truly I tell you, today you
          |will be with me in paradise.”**


        |u/Go_To_Bethel_And_Sin - 9 hours
        |
        |According to Luke, yes. But according to Matthew and Mark, both
        |mocked him.


    |u/Ok-Seaworthiness4488 - 21 hours
    |
    |Jesus was crucified between two convicted criminals


    |u/johncoktosin - 21 hours
    |
    |Christian tradition holds that Jesus was crucified between two
    |criminals.


      |u/A_random_redditor21 - 14 hours
      |
      |Thought that it was about him dying for their sins, like Jesus.


        |u/potatobutt5 - 1 hour
        |
        |Same. I think the joke can be interpreted both ways.


      |u/frostape - 21 hours
      |
      |(not everyone is Christian)


        |u/Humans_will_be_gone - 20 hours
        |
        |What does that have to do with anything?


          |u/frostape - 20 hours
          |
          |Comment has been edited. It originally implied the "I don't
          |get it" comment was trolling, so I was simply saying that not
          |everyone is Christian and not knowing all the traditions
          |doesn't equate to trolling.


        |u/nameyname12345 - 20 hours
        |
        |Not even the budists?/s


        |u/blubblu - 20 hours
        |
        |Back when this joke was relevant however most people would have
        |understood.  Who cares if everyone isn’t Christian.  “I am a
        |very smort redditor” comment right here 


    |u/nuclearswan - 21 hours
    |
    |Something to do with stretching out his arms towards the pictures?


  |u/nameyname12345 - 20 hours
  |
  |Seems like the kind of thing that should be immortalized on say his
  |executioners tombstone right over the name.


  |u/CarobSignal - 9 hours
  |
  |I assumed it would be stupid, but that's actually a fantastic joke.
  |Surprising coming from a German and a Priest, two groups known for
  |their humor.


  |u/The-Lord-Moccasin - 3 hours
  |
  |Praise be to this mad-lad priest, and may the bitchy little
  |manchildren Hitler and Göring burn forever.


  |u/PhiStudios_ - 12 hours
  |
  |Oh lol, i get it now.


  |u/rollotar300 - 18 hours
  |
  |I don't know if you'll downvote me and I know you guys'll say yes it
  |is because it's a joke about Hitler and everything but speaking
  |honestly I didn't find it funny and definitely not worth dying for.


    |u/9yr0ld - 14 hours
    |
    |I mean no joke is ever worth dying for, but jokes live in the times
    |they are born. A large part of humor comes from the offensiveness in
    |it. So, today, a joke about Hitler is not offensive in the
    |slightest. But a joke about Hitler in Nazi Germany would be VERY
    |offensive. That is to say, you really can’t comment on how hard the
    |joke hits because it wasn’t made for you. Saying you don’t find it
    |funny is as useful as saying you don’t speak German.


  |u/MoistHope9454 - 20 hours
  |
  |ha ha 🤷🏼‍♀️ universe got limmits 🙄


|u/OvationBreadwinner - 21 hours
|
|This shit was happening before Freisler.  My mother’s uncle was a
|village priest in Thüringen.  The government cancelled a Catholic
|festival there in the late 30s.  A few weeks later he was asked to
|arrange lodging for the children of some Party officials who were
|looking for a country-experience (show them where their food came from—
|hang with some salt-of-the-earth Germans kind of thing).  He told the
|officials he couldn’t guarantee their safety since a lot of villagers
|were still sore over the cancellation of their festival.  He was packed
|off to house arrest in Fulda, where he died of Tuberculosis.  According
|to my grandfather you couldn’t see the walls of the church cemetery
|because of all the brownshirts (they prevented anyone but close family
|from attending the funeral).  That said, the rank-and-file of the Church
|were much more effective in resisting Naziism (what little resistance
|there was) than the leadership.


  |u/Galac_to_sidase - 18 hours
  |
  |> That said, the rank-and-file of the Church were much more effective
  |in resisting Naziism (what little resistance there was) than the
  |leadership.  That is sad, because the leadership was powerful enough
  |[to resist Naziism and get away with
  |it](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clemens_August_Graf_von_Galen).


    |u/OvationBreadwinner - 14 hours
    |
    |Yep.


    |u/XAlphaWarriorX - 14 hours
    |
    |[Not everyone, sadly.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Roma
    |n_Catholic_priests_executed_by_Nazi_Germany)


    |u/TwoCreamOneSweetener - 12 hours
    |
    |It’s so bizarre. This Bishop was entirely primed, predisposed to
    |National Socialism. Conservative, reactionary, and held to very
    |similar values that many Nazis would have.   And yet had a burning
    |hatred for it.


      |u/Ameisen - 11 hours
      |
      |Fascism, and variants like National Socialism, are revolutionary
      |ideologies that fundamentally reject religion. They only worked
      |*with* it when they *had* to, such as in Italy.  The Church is
      |incompatible with fascist ideals, and acts as a competitor to the
      |state.


        |u/Calvinball05 - 10 hours
        |
        |Well they also worked together quite fabulously in Spain. Nazi
        |Germany and the Catholic Church provided Franco a lot of support
        |in overthrowing the democratically elected communist government
        |there.


          |u/Ameisen - 10 hours
          |
          |That's because Franco wasn't a fascist, he was just a
          |reactionary/traditionalist totalitarian and monarchist. He was
          |the opposite of a revolutionary.  Falange did have a fascist
          |wing, but they weren't fond of Franco.  The Church welcomed
          |Franco as he was a huge supporter of the Church, and he
          |opposed socialists.  The Nazis supported Franco because he was
          |right-wing and opposed socialists.


        |u/TwoCreamOneSweetener - 11 hours
        |
        |Well I suppose Jesus lead an example that the state didn’t
        |particularly like.


          |u/Ameisen - 11 hours
          |
          |All organized religion is opposed by fascism. Fascism espouses
          |complete loyalty to the state and a unified people. Religion
          |is competition.


        |u/TwoCreamOneSweetener - 11 hours
        |
        |Intriguing. Would you mind expanding on this or referencing
        |something I can read?


  |u/Drafo7 - 14 hours
  |
  |>the rank-and-file of the Church were much more effective in resisting
  |Nazism  Yup. One of the most famous anti-Nazi poems was written by a
  |Catholic priest: First They Came for the Socialists.


    |u/Virtual-Ambition-414 - 2 hours
    |
    |Actually it was written by a Lutheran pastor. Looking at the
    |different reactions of the Catholic church and the protestant
    |organisations to the rise of the Nazis is actually quite
    |interesting. If people are interested, the Wikipedia article on
    |[Kirchenkampf](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirchenkampf) is a
    |decent starting point.


    |u/OvationBreadwinner - 14 hours
    |
    |I always found it interesting that a grand total of one Nazi leader
    |was excommunicated after Hitler’s seizure of power (to be clear— he
    |was elected but essentially foreclosed the ability to remove himself
    |after the Reichstag fire).  Goebbels, by his own account for
    |marrying outside the Church.  Priorities, right?  Marry a non-
    |Catholic and you’re an apostate.  Commit genocide…


      |u/Drafo7 - 14 hours
      |
      |Yeah. Pius XII saved thousands of Jews and discretely provided
      |info to the Allies but on the public front he really wasn't
      |outspoken enough against the Nazis. He seemed more worried about
      |communism than fascism, and while both were valid concerns at the
      |time, I can't help but feel he was prioritizing Catholic lives
      |over Jewish lives, and could have done much more to stop the Nazis
      |if he really tried. It was like he really didn't want them to win,
      |but also wanted to cover his ass in case they did, which imo is a
      |coward's move.


        |u/OvationBreadwinner - 13 hours
        |
        |The behavior of the church in Spain was disgraceful.  A measure
        |of what they were really all about back then— Pius knew he would
        |never overcome Hitler’s lack of trust/need for it, but was
        |perfectly willing to accommodate Franco for a seat at the table.


          |u/x31b - 10 hours
          |
          |Read up on what Franco’s opponents, the Communists, did to
          |priests and nuns and it makes sense.


            |u/OvationBreadwinner - 5 hours
            |
            |Payback was a b*tch though, wasn’t it?  I’m no communist
            |sympathizer, but outlawing divorce, strictly regulating
            |family planning, abducting children from unwed or otherwise
            |those deemed unfit parents, and winding the clock back was
            |what the Catholic Church was OK with under Franco.  Nowadays
            |after Vatican II and Francis the church presents itself as a
            |benevolent organization looking out for the poor and
            |downtrodden.  But we have no right to forget the way it
            |behaves when handed real, temporal power.  I’ll take my
            |Godless American Constitution, thank you very much, and as
            |long as Mr. Jefferson’s wall remains standing one can have
            |as much church as one likes.  Just don’t bother me with it!
            |😉


          |u/Yamasushifan - 12 hours
          |
          |That was because Franco was not like the Nazis, who used
          |religion when practical, but was a practicing catholic who had
          |got rid of a regime which the Church in Spain had loathed and
          |under which It had suffered under. In Spain the Church
          |remained a very important force in society, and when the
          |monarchy fell in 1931, It was associated with conservative and
          |monarchical positions, which garnered It several enemies. It
          |didn't help that as soon as the Republic was established It
          |separated the Church from the state definitely and made
          |religious education optional, to which the Spanish clergy
          |obviously objected. Add a few riots here and there because of
          |ideology, and you get the anti-clerical violence of 1931.   In
          |the end, the Church supported who was likely not to set fire
          |to their property, and Who was also very likely to roll back
          |most republican policies on religion.


            |u/Ameisen - 11 hours
            |
            |That's because Franco wasn't a fascist, just just a
            |reactionary totalitarian. *Falange* did have a fascist wing
            |but Franco often butted heads with them. He was more similar
            |to Horthy.  Mussoloni hated the Church but wasn't in a
            |position to destroy it - he had to work with it.


              |u/Yamasushifan - 10 hours
              |
              |I am very aware; Franco falls under his own ideological
              |umbrella because he was not preaching a cohesive ideology
              |as he did not really have one you can fit into any
              |established line. You can only fit him as an ultra-
              |conservative catholic authoritarian.   The Horthy
              |comparison kind of fits; save for the religious thing. I
              |am not knowledgeable enough to say how things were in
              |Hungary in those terms.


  |u/MoistHope9454 - 20 hours
  |
  |difference??


|u/LNhart - 20 hours
|
|My great-grandfather was a law professor who defended his priest (and my
|grandmother's religion teacher in school) in court from the Nazis in the
|last year of the war. Not entirely surprisingly, the priest and my
|great-grandfather did not prevail in court and the priest was executed.
|His crime: Listening to the BBC.


|u/lobroblaw - 18 hours
|
|Tough crowd


  |u/AnInsultToFire - 13 hours
  |
  |You know, with Hitler, the more I learn about that guy, the more I
  |don't care for him.


|u/cocoagiant - 17 hours
|
|> After his death, Freisler would send Müller's family a bill for his
|execution.  Man, these Nazis seem like they were really bad news.


  |u/x31b - 10 hours
  |
  |The Soviets did that as well. They would send a bill for the bullet to
  |the family.


  |u/DoNotPetTheSnake - 10 hours
  |
  |Coming to America


  |u/harperofthefreenorth - 4 hours
  |
  |They sound like real jerks.


  |u/The-Lord-Moccasin - 3 hours
  |
  |They did something similar to the author of *All Quiet on the Western
  |Front*.  He'd fled the country so the Nazis arrested his sister, and
  |literally told her "Your brother is beyond our reach, but you are
  |not". Then they cut her head off and sent the bill of imprisonment and
  |execution to her brother.  For all the trouble they caused, in the end
  |Nazis were just a bunch of immature edgelord filth.


|u/Canalloni - 20 hours
|
|"Nazi Germany perverted every democratic institution that was supposed
|to uphold the rule of law and ensure the people of Europe’s most
|powerful nation were governed fairly. And in relation to the law, Roland
|Freisler played a huge part in this warped ideology."  Judge Aileen
|Cannon, part of the fascist appointments.


|u/Bman1465 - 13 hours
|
|Reminds me of the guy (I think a high-ranking military guy) in Nazi
|Germany who, after being asked to get rid of a fly during a meeting by
|Hitler, promptly responded it should instead be the chief of the
|Luftwaffe's responsibility to deal with it since it was "an airborne
|pest"   Hitler responded by staring at him in silence, firing him on the
|spot and sending him to the Eastern Front to die.


  |u/Late_Argument_470 - 4 hours
  |
  |Yes. It didnt go do down exactly like that, but it happened.


|u/OperationSuch5054 - 14 hours
|
|Bet they were fuhrerious with him.


|u/Blutarg - 20 hours
|
|The more I learn about Hitler, the less I care for him.


  |u/Bheegabhoot - 18 hours
  |
  |He did kill Hitler.


  |u/TheOtherJohnson - 20 hours
  |
  |Taking the controversial stands the rest of us are too afraid to. I
  |like it.


  |u/spaceporter - 17 hours
  |
  |I think the worst part was his hypocrisy.


    |u/OrangeDit - 17 hours
    |
    |Oh, how low has Cosby sunken. He seems like a real dick.


  |u/gwaydms - 16 hours
  |
  |I'm starting to think he wasn't a very nice guy.


  |u/Berkuts_Lance_Plus - 13 hours
  |
  |Thank you for having the courage for saying what everyone's been
  |saying.


|u/whostypingthis - 21 hours
|
|Yup. Facists have the smallest dicks and no sense of humor.


  |u/nameyname12345 - 20 hours
  |
  |Oh thank god im safe. I got a sense of humor!


    |u/apersonwithdreams - 17 hours
    |
    |I’m also safe. Btw are you making some sort of joke with your
    |comment? I don’t get it.


      |u/nameyname12345 - 16 hours
      |
      |Well if it takes both those things to make me a fascist... My best
      |defense being my sense of humor... Bad joke my bad lol.


        |u/apersonwithdreams - 16 hours
        |
        |Lmao no I’m saying “I’m safe + but I don’t have a sense of humor
        |= big dong”


          |u/nameyname12345 - 16 hours
          |
          |Ah damn I thought whooshed someone when I'm the whooshee!


      |u/bstabens - 16 hours
      |
      |He's making a joke on a logical fallacy.  If fascists have small
      |dicks and no sense of humour, having both a small dick and no
      |sense of humor would make you a fascist.  Now with him saying he's
      |being safe because he has a sense of humor means that from two
      |requirements to be a fascist he has fulfilled only one...


        |u/apersonwithdreams - 16 hours
        |
        |Right.  And I’m saying I’m safe, but my inability to understand
        |the joke you just explained means that I have no sense of humor,
        |yet I’m still safe so …


          |u/bstabens - 16 hours
          |
          |You know why women are bad at parking? Because men keep
          |telling them \*this\* is a foot long.


            |u/apersonwithdreams - 16 hours
            |
            |I can’t tell if you explaining that joke to me was because
            |you actually didn’t get my joke or if you were taking the
            |joke further by pretending not to get my joke.


  |u/Berkuts_Lance_Plus - 13 hours
  |
  |Goddamn facists, discriminating against people based on their faces.


  |u/sword_of_darkness - 12 hours
  |
  |This means if you have no dick you can't be a fascist! Maybe bottom
  |surgery is a cure to fascism (snip snip)


|u/wojtekpolska - 13 hours
|
|My great grandfather was put in jail without charges for laughing at a
|joke about Stalin, he only got out because the warden took pity on him,
|and he apparently remembered his name for the rest of his life


|u/negative_xer0 - 15 hours
|
|That joke made him **_Fuhrer-ous._**   _...I'll see myself out._


|u/Wish_I_WasInRome - 17 hours
|
|Catholics weren't trusted in Nazi Germany. They vehemently disapproved
|of the regime and even German soldiers knew to keep their faith a secret
|otherwise they might be interrogated by the SS.


  |u/ldawg213 - 16 hours
  |
  |So vehemently disapproved that they collaborated with the nazis to
  |pass the enabling act, Ludwig Kaas, for example.  Edit: also, the
  |Reichskonkordat  Edit 2: Lol @ people down voting this. I wasn't
  |challenging the fact that  Catholic lay people weren't opposed to the
  |Nazis, although there were many Catholic Nazis. I was challenging the
  |word "vehemently" in the comment. There wasnt much "vehement" about
  |the Catholic Churches/Holy See's opposition to Nazism and Hitler (tho
  |Hitler was born and raised a Catholic). And that the Catholic Church
  |heiarchy in Germany indeed cooperated with the Nazis, if not for any
  |other reason than survival or other self-interests, like many did
  |under those circumstances. Again, the word vehement is the problem..
  |Edit 3: Franz Von Papen, Hitlers vice - chancellor, played a very
  |large role in Hitlers rise to power.


    |u/ldawg213 - 14 hours
    |
    |Lol @ people down voting this. I wasn't challenging the fact that
    |Catholic lay people weren't opposed to the Nazis. I was challenging
    |the word "vehemently" in the comment. There wasnt much "vehement"
    |about the Catholic Churches/Holy See's opposition to Nazism and
    |Hitler (tho Hitler was born and raised a Catholic). And that the
    |Catholic Church heiarchy in Germany indeed cooperated with the
    |Nazis, if not for any other reason than survival or other self-
    |interests, like many did under those circumstances. Again, the word
    |vehement is the problem..


|u/GarysCrispLettuce - 20 hours
|
|80 years later, Trump is threatening to yank the broadcasting licenses
|of media outlets that were mean to him.


  |u/GuelphEastEndGhetto - 19 hours
  |
  |This reminds me of a YouTube video I once saw  that talked about 80
  |year cycles in human history.


    |u/KetogenicKraig - 14 hours
    |
    |Please tell me that the youtuber didn’t try to pass the idea off as
    |their own. Because that comes from the book The Fourth Turning by
    |Bill Strauss. Which is an amazing book and one that I think about
    |several times per week


      |u/GuelphEastEndGhetto - 13 hours
      |
      |Yes, the Fourth Turning rings a bell.


  |u/TheRollingPeepstones - 16 hours
  |
  |That is, media outlets who told the truth about him and/or tried to
  |counter the lies vomited up by his propaganda machine.  Every Nazi
  |wants to penalize people who speak the truth about them, always. No
  |exceptions.


|u/Fullmz2143 - 18 hours
|
|A priest, a rabbi and a Nazi walk into a beer hall...


|u/Turbulent-Parsnip512 - 17 hours
|
|He must have been "an enemy within"


|u/hje1967 - 13 hours
|
|Priest: Fuhrer's dog's got no nose  Congregation: How does he smell?
|Priest: Awful!


|u/Ok_Two_8589 - 20 hours
|
|I am glad that nazis no longer rules


  |u/seXJ69 - 20 hours
  |
  |/s


|u/lardoni - 19 hours
|
|Maybe having only one ball, makes you have no sense of humour!


|u/TaintFraidOfNoGhost - 20 hours
|
|How long until we can’t tell Trump jokes? 


  |u/seXJ69 - 20 hours
  |
  |1-2 years.


    |u/the_Tide_Rolleth - 16 hours
    |
    |More like months.


  |u/MoistHope9454 - 20 hours
  |
  |😊


    |u/SmellyBallSack95 - 15 hours
    |
    |Get fucked


|u/goddamnitmf - 20 hours
|
|Oh sure when someone else makes a joke it's forbidden but when he does
|it kills


|u/AdministrativeBank86 - 10 hours
|
|Don't give Trump any ideas, his brain-dead cult is already calling for
|imprisonment and worse for anyone who criticizes Stinky. Real Quote:
|"They are a danger to democracy"


|u/Stevey1001 - 10 hours
|
|He did Nazi that coming


|u/RacerM53 - 7 hours
|
|"Fuhrer? I barely know her!"


|u/Dannysmartful - 6 hours
|
|It was a killer joke.


|u/BrokenDroid - 19 hours
|
|"Those aren't buoys!"


|u/pickledeggmanwalrus - 18 hours
|
|Catholic priests were the original stand up comedians?


|u/LondonDude123 - 20 hours
|
|Wasnt there someone *just the other day* who was arrested in Germany for
|*literally* saying "\[Politician\] is crap" or something like that...


  |u/Predator_Hicks - 19 hours
  |
  |That was the headline, yes, but apart from insulting a public servant
  |(which isn’t that serious), he’s supposedly also guilty of
  |Volksverhetzung (inciting racial hatred), which is much more serious


    |u/Great_Guidance_8448 - 17 hours
    |
    |Nope. You just lied. They made it anti-Semitic to deny Israel's
    |right to exist, not to criticize its government.


      |u/ThatThereMan - 15 hours
      |
      |“The IHRA Working Definition has been adopted or endorsed by 43
      |countries, including Germany, and supported by some international
      |bodies. However, it has been widely criticized for conflating
      |criticism of the Israeli government with antisemitism.” Deutsche
      |Welle


        |u/Great_Guidance_8448 - 15 hours
        |
        |From the article that you didn't bother to provide a link for...
        |""The Bundestag reaffirms its decision to ensure that no
        |organizations or projects that spread antisemitism, question
        |Israel's right to exist, call for a boycott of Israel or
        |actively support the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS)
        |movement receive financial support.""


|u/thx1138a - 17 hours
|
|“What’s the deal with Aryan fools?”


|u/SaberToothForever - 16 hours
|
|They had no humor :/


|u/spletharg - 14 hours
|
|Shhhhh, you're giving them ideas.


|u/No-Alternative-2881 - 13 hours
|
|“Ok, so me, a Jew, and Hitler walk into a bar”


|u/StrategicTension - 11 hours
|
|Harsh, but fair


|u/CarobSignal - 9 hours
|
|The more I hear about these Nazi folk, the less I like them.


|u/Snarky_McSnarkleton - 9 hours
|
|Coming soon to U-Know-Where.


|u/A_Mirabeau_702 - 20 hours
|
|By guillotine? The tool of the Allied proletariat?


|u/shama_lama_twinkie - 18 hours
|
|Or so the Germans would have us believe...


|u/comradequiche - 20 hours
|
|Wait till you hear about what Stalin and Mao did


|u/Gmoneydelight - 20 hours
|
|That will learn em


|u/Firm_Organization382 - 15 hours
|
|When Hitler fucks you moan.  I do moan General  His penis is tiny.   I
|hope Jews laugh at this I did.


|u/ComprehensivePin6097 - 18 hours
|
|Now I understand why the Christians have a hard on for Trump.


|u/raytracer38 - 19 hours
|
|Phew, it's a good thing catholic priests haven't done anything wrong
|since then!