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Folklore Fights the Nazis details how Norwegians kept their sense of humor and their spirits high by poking fun at the Germans who occupied their land during World War II. The book centers on four "joke notebooks" kept by women ranging in age from eleven to thirty, who found sufficient meaning in this humor to risk recording and preserving it, notwithstanding an October 1942 ordinance threatening the death penalty for possessing any form of anti-Nazi propaganda.
In addition to narrative jokes, quips, and anecdotes, author Kathleen Stokker explores the Norwegians' use of symbolic clothing, Christmas cards, children's literature, and mock postage stamps to express anti-Nazi sentiment.
Supplemented by the wartime diaries of three additional women from East, West, and North Norway, respectively, and informed by Stokker's interviews of numerous other occupation survivors, the book contains a wealth of historical detail and personal perspective that belies the traditional historical accounts of Norway's occupation that assume the entire population's immediate and unanimous resistance to Nazism. Instead we find in these unassuming wartime documents far more complex attitudes toward the occupiers and the Norwegian Nazis, attitudes that both in frailty and humanity appear more psychologically valid.
Intended to serve both scholars and the general public, the book, based on eight years of research, includes thorough source annotations and footnotes, as well as a bibliography and index, but is written in a popular style and includes the historical and cultural background necessary to the nonspecialist.

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""Folklore Fights the Nazis concludes that Norwegians--traditionally regarded as serious-minded folks--employed a sly sense of humor at the expense of their invaders, even in the face of possible harsh retaliation."--Jack Hovelson, "Des Moines Register

""Folklore Fights the Nazis" concludes that Norwegians--traditionally regarded as serious-minded folks--employed a sly sense of humor at the expense of their invaders, even in the face of possible harsh retaliation."--Jack Hovelson, "Des Moines Register"

" An indispensable history of a nation' s resistance to occupation. . . . Stokker' s penetrating study shows folk humor as a form of psychological warfare." -- "Choice"

" "Folklore Fights the Nazis" concludes that Norwegians-- traditionally regarded as serious-minded folks-- employed a sly sense of humor at the expense of their invaders, even in the face of possible harsh retaliation." -- Jack Hovelson, "Des Moines Register"

0;An indispensable history of a nation7;s resistance to occupation. . . . Stokker7;s penetrating study shows folk humor as a form of psychological warfare.1;2; "Choice"

0; "Folklore Fights the Nazis" concludes that Norwegians2;traditionally regarded as serious-minded folks2;employed a sly sense of humor at the expense of their invaders, even in the face of possible harsh retaliation.1;2;Jack Hovelson, "Des Moines Register"

"Folklore Fights the Nazis" concludes that Norwegians traditionally regarded as serious-minded folks employed a sly sense of humor at the expense of their invaders, even in the face of possible harsh retaliation. Jack Hovelson, "Des Moines Register""

An indispensable history of a nation s resistance to occupation. . . . Stokker s penetrating study shows folk humor as a form of psychological warfare. Choice"

Folklore Fights the Nazis concludes that Norwegians traditionally regarded as serious-minded folks employed a sly sense of humor at the expense of their invaders, even in the face of possible harsh retaliation. Jack Hovelson, Des Moines Register"

"An indispensable history of a nation's resistance to occupation. . . . Stokker's penetrating study shows folk humor as a form of psychological warfare."--Choice
From the Author:
What was everyday life like during the occupation?
For Norway -- as for America -- World War II was a defining experience. "Folklore Fights the Nazis" shows how the unprecedented challenges of the occupation united Norway as it had never been before. The courage, loyalty, and common sense of everyday people -- as reflected in their still funny, quick-witted humor -- show why those who endured the Second World War deserve the title recently confirmed by Tom Brokaw as "the greatest generation." Who else would have thought of getting back at the Nazi order that he supply more eggs than this farmer from West Norway who wrote back, "I recieved your letter of three weeks ago and immediately placed it in the hen house so the chickens could see for themselves what they were supposed to do. In as much as they, after three weeks, did not start laying more eggs, I lined them up before a firing squad and had them executed for sabborage against the German war effort."

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