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CeUciee -su that you can see the One kmcurs underneath. — Pad. because his activities and appaan.: lend themselves to it, Gochbe!, more than any other Nazi Oficial, 45 acquired a long list of hikeames -enough almost to fill a - Small telephone directory. Most com- mea ef them all is “Mahatma Propa- sed,” with “Wotan's Mickey Mouse” 8 dese -e.ond. His continual har- r , AMgues anid the Joe E. Brown manner Of Aelivery Gave rise to the legend that once, at a speech in the Sports- Palast, he opened his mouth so wide that he bit his ear! No prop of the Nazi system escapes | the spiked wit of the concocters of Fliisterwitze, The “Heil Hitler” greet. ing, winter relief, high taxes, low wages, the neuter gender of certain officials, Corruption of government employees, the rearmament Program, the Strength Through Joy movement . —all get their share of the barrage, Perhaps the chief—and only—satis- faction left to opponents of Hitler to. . day is derived from this pecking away at the institutions established by the Third Reich. One of the most ridi- _Culed of these is the S. A—tbe Storm Troope. A popular yarn concerns Miiller who, with Many others, had joined the S. A. Merely for protection, A ; friend, Meeting him on the street, is #stonishtd at seeing ‘him in uniform: "hat. you an old communist—in the S.A?" - tion camp: Another quip: “The German people are now divided into two séclions—~ those who march and those who sit.” And another, concerning 4 citizen of Berlin recently sent to a concentra- “What!” says a neighbor. “Such an honest young man?” “Pre. cisely,” is the answer, “that’s why he . WAS arrested.” There's pathos in the the Third Reich”: “Dear Lord, make me dumb, So that I may not §9 to a concen- tration camp.. , Dear Lord, make me blind, So that I may find everything Marvelous. Dear Lord, make me deaf, So that I may believe in the Huge Fraud. Make me blind, deaf and dumb So that I may fit into the Third Reich.” Volumes could be filled with the jokes about that cornerstone of Nag. ism, Aryanism. One might think that the Jews in Germany would be the last to tell them, but they seem to “Prayer of oviginate from among the Jews them- selves, There's the one about the incred- uvlous American visitor who asks jf the rabbis in Germany are still per. . mitted to be Jews. And about the _ Englishman who wonders if pon-Ary- ans, deprived of all rights, are still: - allowed to pay tazes. Countless Stories come under the category referred to as “The Jews are Blamed for Every-