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[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Anybody using google to translate "Lustige Blätter" would get "funny leaves," but the better translation is "Funny Pages."

The German word for leaf can also mean a page of paper, just like the english expression "loose leaf paper."

[–] [email protected] 3 points 18 hours ago

We also use the words “leaflet” and “flyer” for single-page publishing.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I tried to find the original source - unfortunately, the paper went Nazi under the regime.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Not gonna lie, I love how it increasingly gets more desperate, going from showing off how well they're doing, to how "horrible the things the allies are doing", to end on just a lazy caricature of "the enemy". Also how it shifts from "we're waging a war of justice!" to "the jews organized WW2"

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

I’m really curious about why the paper turned so far right - if Nazis replaced the staff or something. Wikipedia suggests it was liberal before the Nazis; looking through the artists they employed at least one was Jewish or creators of “degenerate art.”

Maybe there’s an academic article in German or such, my Deutsch is limited to “Das Kind spielt der Ball” so my research skills are limited here.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

May I introduce you to the concept of Gleichschaltung

Basically, the Nazis went through great lengths to install loyal followers in all aspects of life, including the publishing sector.

They did also change the organisational structure of pretty much everything they could lay their hands on according to the Führerprinzip

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

Just reading between the lines, mozkowski, one of the founders, was a member of a Jewish community organization and worked at the magazine until 1927. I’m guessing he was a moderating influence and things changed when he left.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 day ago (2 children)

That's just straight with extra steps!

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Alt-Straight

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

FTM and MTF people in relationships

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Girls will be boys and boys will be girls
It's a mixed up, muddled up, shook up world

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago

Except for Lola

Lo-Lo-Lo-Lo-Lola

[–] [email protected] 4 points 21 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

"explain your type(s)"