In the photo, a Hitler mustache is drawn on one student, who is wearing an armband with a swastika. The caption reads: “I’d rather be gassing Jews right now.”
Jewish comedians from Mel Brooks to Sarah Silverman have turned the Third Reich into a punchline. Humor is tragedy plus time, Mark Twain famously quipped. But the Internet meme “Hipster Hitler” seems to have pushed the boundaries of taste too far for some people. The web comic, now available as a book, portrays the genocidal […]
Hitler is alive and well, if not a bit wrinkled, and he’s living in the Amazon jungle thirty years after the end of the Holocaust. Who better than a group of Jewish Nazi hunters to bring him to justice? And thus you have the plot of George Steiner’s surreal and provocative 1981 novella The Portage […]