Word: simple
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Under Nazi suppression, Simpl's best minds fled the country. The magazine was rudely resurrected under Nazi auspices, but it disappeared near the end of the war. In 1954, a new group took the famous old name and had another go at it. They flailed away at militarism and German pomposity, but somehow things were no longer the same. The targets were indistinct, the barbs not finely honed. Occasionally, as in its current issue, it found the mark. Piqued by what it considered excessive panoply surrounding the Adenauer funeral, the magazine noted that his body had been borne...
Simplicissimus, often shortened familiarly to Simpl, is the honored name of Germany's world-famous satirical magazine. Before World War I, it dabbed acid fun at Kaiser Wilhelm II, and for its lese majesty was frequently banned. It took on new teeth in the 1920s just in time to start potshotting at the rise of Nazism. One Simpl view of Hitler showed the top of his head lifted up to reveal a void within. "Isn't it strange," remarked the magazine, "that you can make such a lot of trouble with so little stuff?" It was not strange...
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