Humor im Dienst der Verleumdung. Antisemitische ‚politische Sketsche’ im Tschechischen Rundfunk 1941–1945
Humour as a Means of Defamation - Antisemitic "political sketches' in Czech Broadcasting 1941-1945

Summary/Abstract: This article focuses on political humor as a Nazi propaganda weapon against the Czech public. After charting the ever-increasing influence of Nazi ideology on Czech Radio in the period 1939-41 and BBC’s responses to it, the author examines the launch of the so-called “political sketches” by a group of Nazi collaborators installed at Czech Radio. The author describes the main goals, and motifs of the propaganda while illuminating the scandal-ridden milieu, in which the sketches were created. Analysis of original broadcast texts portrays the level of humor they provided through to liberation in May 1945. A post-war epilogue is included.

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