Humor a vtip jako „zázračná“ zbraň 2. Světové Války
Humor and Wit as a “Wonderful” Weapon of the Second World War

Summary/Abstract: The article, based on an extensive exemplification, considers the methods and the main objects of humor as a weapon of propaganda in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. For such measures of social communication reached both the German occupiers and the Czech society. Humor served in the Nazi propaganda as a mockery of the Western leaders and the Czech politicians in exile (Benes, Masaryk), who were derided often through the usage the anti-Semitic measures and the calculation of the older Czech wits. The anti-Nazi wits emerged in the Czech Republic already in the 30s. Their main object, until 1945, was Adolf Hitler and other leaders of the Third Reich. An interesting element of the anti-Nazi propaganda was an usage of pseudo-Polish language. The Germans, the authorities of the Protectorate, as well as the Poles themselves (mostly the aggressors from 1938), were derided through the quasi Polish terms.

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