A comedy about the Nazis debuted Wednesday on German television. “Goebbels and Geduldig,” a farce about the Nazi propaganda minister and a good-humored Jewish lookalike who swap places in 1944, shattered a half-century taboo on poking fun at the country’s Nazi past.
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