Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES, February 4, 1939:

Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels today ended the professional careers of five “Aryan” actors and cabaret announcers by expelling them from the Reich’s Chamber of Culture on the grounds that “in their public appearances they displayed a lack of any positive attitude toward National Socialism and therewith caused grave annoyance in public and especially to party comrades.” […]

What amused the public most, however, and presumably roiled the National Socialist authorities most – although Dr. Goebbels does not mention it – is that they deftly, but unmistakably, caricatured some gestures, poses and physical characteristics of National Socialist leaders – sometimes with bon mots that made the rounds of the country.

Dr. Goebbels says that the National Socialists proved during their struggle for power that they had a keen sense of humor that could kill opponents with ridicule. But as National Socialism proposes to remain in power 2,000 years it has neither the time nor the patience to apply that method to the “miserable literati.”

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