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A fact from Holocaust humor appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 13 March 2022 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that humor in Nazi camps was a survival and defense mechanism?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2022/March. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Holocaust humor.

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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
"Judy Gold talks Holocaust jokes, Louie C.K., and sexism".

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The result was: promoted by SL93 (talk) 01:23, 8 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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... that humor in Nazi camps was a survival and defense mechanism? Source: Humor as a Defense Mechanism during the Holocaust, Dr Chaya Ostrower; dr. Ostrower speaks about her book Chaya Ostrower, ההומור כמנגנון הגנה בשואה / ha-Humor ke-mangenon haganah ba-Shoʼah [Humor as a Defense Mechanism in the Holocaust], 2000, Ph.D., Faculty of Humanities, University of Tel Aviv; Chaya Ostrower [he], הומור כמנגנון הגנה בשואה ["Humor as a defense mechanism in the Holocaust"]

5x expanded by Loew Galitz (talk). Self-nominated at 22:56, 21 February 2022 (UTC).[reply]

Interesting aspects, on fine sources, foreign and offline sources accepted AGF, no copyvio obvious. I like the hook. Your first DYK, right? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:15, 4 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I don't recall any other. I did write a few articles I thought curious, such as "On Venus, Have We Got a Rabbi!", but this one I thought important as well, and I hope that DYK will attract more editors, because I merely scraped the surface. Loew Galitz (talk) 22:23, 4 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]