Talk:Holocaust humor

Sources for further sources

 * "Taboo humor and The Holocaust"
 * Viano, Maurizio (1999) ‘Life is Beautiful: reception, allegory and Holocaust laughter’ Annali d’Italianistica, no. 17, pp 155-173
 * Chaya Ostrower, Humor as a Defense Mechanism in the Holocaust

Page moving
Please do not move the article without discussion. This subject is not "Humor based on Holocaust". Loew Galitz (talk) 18:57, 4 July 2022 (UTC)

Incorrect summary of the legal situation in Germany
Section "Modern times" simply states: "Telling Holocaust jokes in public is illegal in Germany." The story that is provided as a source for that statement is based on hearsay. Factual correct is that two laws of the German criminal law, the Strafgesetzbuch, penalize the "denigration of the memory of the deceased" (§189) and "incitement to hatred" (§130). It is the spirit of these laws that telling jokes with the intention to denigrate victims of the Holocaust or to trivialize the Holocaust is illegal. Simply retelling such a joke to discuss it in the course of a debate of the Holocaust doesn't automatically qualify as a violation of these laws. MiBerG (talk) 20:35, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
 * I changed "is illegal" to "may be illegal". As I see, it is easy to find refs to (§189) and (§130. Can yyou rpovide a reference how their combination applies to Holocaust jokes? - Altenmann >talk 21:30, 5 May 2024 (UTC)