Folklore Fights the Nazis: Humor in Occupied Norway,

Folklore Fights the Nazis: Humor in Occupied Norway, 1940–1945

Â Â Â Â Armed with jokes, puns, and cartoons, Norwegians tried to keep their spirits high and foster the Resistance by poking fun at the occupying Germans during World War II. Despite a 1942 ordinance mandating death for the ridicule of Nazi soldiers, Norwegians attacked the occupying Nazis and their Norwegian collaborators by means of anecdotes, quips, insinuating personal ads, childrenâ€™s stories, Christmas cards, mock postage stamps, and symbolic clothing.
Â Â Â Â In relating this dramatic story, Kathleen Stokker draws upon her many interviews with survivors of the Occupation and upon the archives of the Norwegian Resistance Museum and the University of Oslo. Central to the book are four â€œjoke notebooksâ€ kept by women ranging in age from eleven to thirty, who found sufficient meaning in this humor to risk recording and preserving it. Stokker also cites details from wartime diaries of three other women from East, West, and North Norway. Placing the joking in historical, cultural, and psychological context, Stokker demonstrates how this seemingly frivolous humor in fact contributed to the development of a resistance mentality among an initially confused, paralyzed, and dispirited population, stunned by the German invasion of their neutral country.
Â Â Â Â For this paperback edition, Stokker has added a new preface offering a comparative view of resistance through humor in neighboring Denmark.
Country USA
Brand University of Wisconsin Press
Manufacturer University of Wisconsin Press
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 22 illustrations
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780299154448
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	University of Wisconsin Press
Manufacturer	University of Wisconsin Press
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	22 illustrations
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780299154448
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Folklore Fights the Nazis: Humor in Occupied Norway, 1940–1945

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