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East German jokes, jibes popular in the former German Democratic Republic (GDR, also known as East Germany), reflected the concerns of East German citizens and residents between 1949 and 1990. Jokes frequently targeted political figures, such as Socialist Party General Secretary Erich Honecker or State Security Minister Erich Mielke , who ...
AOL Time Warner refused to allow the broadcast of Herr Meets Hare, on the grounds that the cartoon was offensive (by today's standards) as it dealt with the Nazis in a joking manner. The cartoon saw limited broadcast on a special one-hour episode of ToonHeads about cartoons from World War II.
Krastava: small Eastern European country located between Poland and Czechoslovakia from the novel The Mourner by Richard Stark. Kravonia: Eastern European country from the novel Sophy of Kravonia by Anthony Hope and the subsequent film. Krayia: realm of Queen Nadya in Noël Coward's, The Queen Was in the Parlour (play, 1922).
Image credits: history.told.in.memes Dr. Samuel J. Redman seconded the idea that knowledge of history can help us understand today's happenings. “Students of history learn to build up an ...
Image credits: historymemeshq American history writer and author of Swastika Nation: Fritz Kuhn and the Rise and Fall of the German-American Bund, Arnie Bernstein, also agrees that comedy and ...
Germany is perceived to have an abundance of rules (for example, copyright trolls often come from Germany) and Germans are generalized as enjoying obeying them. [11] Jerome K. Jerome 's novel Three Men on the Bummel makes fun of the perceived German craving for rules and passion in obeying them; the regimented life of German people is discussed ...
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The IANA time zone database contains two zones for Germany, "Europe/Berlin" and "Europe/Busingen", although in 1945, the Trizone did not follow Berlin's switch to midsummer time. [ citation needed ] Germany had been politically divided into East Germany and West Germany at and after the start of the Unix epoch , which is the date from which the ...