ABSTRACT
It is the absurdity of Hitler’s anti-Semitism which characterizes many of the jokes given below. They date from the period subsequent to the enactment of the Aryan laws 1 which affected millions of Germans of all social and intellectual backgrounds. As they tried to comply with the new laws some people showed that they had misunderstood the meaning of the word ‘Aryan’ as defined by the Government. Others produced a wide range of stylistic solecisms, non-sequiturs and other oddities in their letters to church and Government authorities, as shown in the first section.
