The irony is, most of the deception at the time was to prevent victims from realizing what was about to happen to them. From a description of the arrival site at Treblinka:

Actually, the most depressing part about the book where I found that quote (Deadly Funny: Humor in Hitler’s Germany), is that the author concludes that, in the end, political humor isn’t really as transgressive as we want to believe it is. He was interviewed in “Vanity Fair” back in 2011:

While some camps made a weak effort to conceal their murderous operations, Sobibor was clearly a death camp: prisoners were often taken straight from the trains to the gas chambers. After an uprising in October 1943, Nazis destroyed the camp and attempted to eradicate all evidence of the killings. But researchers have…

“The making of political jokes is a useless remnant of liberalism.”

You don’t know what you’re talking about.

Oh no, he was a total brat back in the day. But I think the English media was also totally primed to dislike this flashy, swarthy kid from southern Europe who took England Great David Beckham’s number at United while refusing to play the Proper, Manly, English kind of football. And that characterization has dogged…

Glad to see the incoming administration is taking clear steps to cut the biggest overblown segments of the US budget:

Oh man. I totally understand how irrational sports hatreds work, but there’s a part of me that will always be sad by how much of a bad rap Cristiano Ronaldo gets. Especially because so much of the shallow anger about him seems pretty rooted in the game’s misogyny/homophobia.

What a difference a year makes.

They’re also breaking EU law.

Surprise! They’re actually doing worse:

Less talk about this human shitstain, please. Why give her any more attention?

Is there a reason you guys ran this particular photo of two actors from the Vampire Diaries at a basketball game... or is even admitting that I immediately recognized Paul Wesley and Phoebe Tomkin an unforgivably Millennial sin?

Victoria Beckham has always been much sharper and more self-aware than people give her credit. The reality TV show she filmed when she and Becks moved to LA in 2007 is a comedic treasure.

a good and right opinion—that Phish is a great band.

I hadn’t either! They’ve got some bangers, though. Also: “4-mr. brightside (spoiler: the biggest power move in live art is the fact that the killers open with this song)”

bruce springsteen’s son went on a twitter tear earlier this month and ranked every song by the killers, and it was maybe the purest thing of 2016.

Yeah, plus what you will find is misleading — for example, his father wasn’t the French ambassador to Sudan; he was just a consul (not a big difference, but still telling). Plus, from his wikipedia page:

Okay, answered my own questions - he’s legit a great-grandson of Ferdinand de Lesseps (though his official biography is rife with other half-truths and embellishments.)

Me too. Which is pretty shady, to be honest. Normally these guys broadcast their connections all over the place.