ocr: Laughing and Dancing in Their World of Pretence Two days after Kristallnacht', Benno Cohn, deputy chairman of the Kulturbund der Juden in Deutschland -the cultural association of the Jews in Germany- was summoned for an urgent talk with Hans Hinkel, the Nazi official in charge of culture at the Ministry of Propaganda Hinkel informed him that Jews must under no circumstances attend plays, concerts, and movies. Concurrently and surprisingly, however, he ordered Cohn to reactivate the Kulturbund on November 20.
