This clever book, published in 1934, uses a humorous take on the contradictions of National socialism as the spoonful of sugar that sweetens its true message: that the policies of Hitler and the Nazis were dangerous and needed to be called to the attention of a sometimes gullible public.
"In periods of revolution and turmoil, it is essential that as many people as possible should retain the capacity to think as well as to talk and shoot. It may be said of the Nazis that they have made this necessity obvious," says the introduction. |