Whisper jokes spread in Nazi Germany under Adolf Hitler,[1] and served different purposes.
[2] The following is an example of a whisper joke in Nazi Germany, parodied from the children's prayer: "Dear God, make me good / so I can go to heaven" (Lieber Gott, mach mich fromm / Daß ich in den Himmel komm), rephrased as "Dear God, make me dumb[3] / so I don't come to Dachau" (Lieber Gott, mach mich stumm / Daß ich nicht nach Dachau kumm).
"[5] In 1944, a person was executed for telling this joke: Hitler and Göring are standing on the Berlin Radio Tower.
[6] Joseph Goebbels' Sportpalast speech led to the spread of a late-war whisper joke, popular in the western part of Germany, especially the Ruhr:
Fliege weiter nach Berlin, da ham’ se alle Ja geschrien.