During the nazi era, comedians had a field day mocking Hitler and his cronies. The immortal joke ‘the true Aryan is as blonde as Hitler, slim as Goering, and as tall/beautiful as Goebbels’. It was funny then and still funny now. Because none of them even remotely resembled the ideal they spoke about. This is even funnier when you include goblins like Himmler who was the head of the SS when he would never have qualified to even be an enlisted SS man when he was younger.
One variation of the ‘blonde as hitler’ joke did include Röhm, with ‘and as chaste as Röhm’ being the statement.
It was and still is a homophobic joke. But given that the Nazis hated gays more than anyone else at the time, I think mocking him is still acceptable. Especially since Röhm was a power broker who was critical in Hitler’s rise to power.
During the nazi era, comedians had a field day mocking Hitler and his cronies. The immortal joke ‘the true Aryan is as blonde as Hitler, slim as Goering, and as tall/beautiful as Goebbels’. It was funny then and still funny now. Because none of them even remotely resembled the ideal they spoke about. This is even funnier when you include goblins like Himmler who was the head of the SS when he would never have qualified to even be an enlisted SS man when he was younger.
And SA founder Ernst Röhm was openly gay.
One variation of the ‘blonde as hitler’ joke did include Röhm, with ‘and as chaste as Röhm’ being the statement.
It was and still is a homophobic joke. But given that the Nazis hated gays more than anyone else at the time, I think mocking him is still acceptable. Especially since Röhm was a power broker who was critical in Hitler’s rise to power.