Jokes about Hitler
"It was a serious criminal offense in Nazi Germany to make an anti-Hitler joke, and it was not uncommon for people to be thrown into concentration camps or executed outright for doing so.
"Nevertheless, people around Hitler sometimes make jokes to his face that would have been insulting to an honest man. One aide to Foreign Minister Ribbentrop told Hitler that Ribbentrop's staff had wanted to honor him with a jewel-encrusted chest filled with the treaties he had negotiated. They had to give up the plan, said the aide, when they realized Germany had broken all the treaties. Hitler roared with laughter."
"A Concise Biography of Adolf Hitler", p. 103
by Thomas Fuchs, Berkeley Books, New York