A song about Germany

[Barklessdog]

A song about Germany and a strange alliance is formed

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYMRYSWa0EE&feature=related

[Denis]

"Springtime for Hitler?"

[uwe]

It's been removed, what was it about?

[Dave W]

[chromium]

[uwe]

We had a Vergeltungswaffe for this too, of course:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_and_his_Orchestra


Charlie and his Orchestra

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsPOKoNKii4&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mE3K9dl5iTs&feature=related





http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G04mr3Kdbmo&feature=related

Charlie and his Orchestra were a staple in the German propaganda radio show "Germany Calling"


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufsQSDdEo8A&feature=related


aired to England twice a week during the war (but not available with German radios within Germany!). The group went through various lineups and later on included musicians from Nazi-occupied European nations too, not all of them always "Aryan".

Among all the anti-semitic crap prevalent in the lyrics (and which made me think twice about posting this, if anybody feels offended, send me an email and I'll delete this posting) there is one irony I find appealing: The drummer, Fritz "Freddy" Brocksieper, was in Nazi-terms "half-jewish", but that was conveniently forgotten. And shortly after the war he was found by US soldiers who were so pleased with their find that they asked him to play in US officers' clubs three days after the war with the Stars & Stripes heralding: "We've got Goebbels' Band!" Charlie and his Orchestra had earned a cult following among Allied soldiers who simply ignored the inane lyrics (Churchill was supposed to be a fan too).

[Barklessdog]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcjgiQJQyHE&ytsession=T_rNlHztYCcfAcFMJ78caffZaXY9RD2bJlcylox35EqFz76EjzWw9SIFnZU3O7yRrJpoLEgDmKuo2Ss-ustWC_z08iuuci6YAeN0X_jhrQJ0NNbM3y6zkbg6onjqDLJhQ4d530rCkO_CJahQo2mEoJ9TNTH8p9Ca0Fycyj6OFdiktZAFw7KFOjZxTgqhsO1MeaMgvtgDp_c7wYhAenKdxQpX5AH43EmfTutJljMyJ4EGfMMlFkC0IJm_Z9ful0mnp_t42NGTarw85u4XATO_049Ug1NKPj-CI7UkOjPIsxH6KpLvg234G_-NUTvQJ7ZPoIWuZPrxCp0

It will be pulled again but...

Funny how the Japan glaze right over the bad stuff...

[uwe]

This stuff is - for lack of a better word - strange in an unsettling way.

[Denis]

That photo has always cracked me up!

[Barklessdog]

This stuff is - for lack of a better word - strange in an unsettling way.

I think Japan has always been an openly racist, closed country. Funny how this show parallels history but glazes over the atrocities of war.

[Highlander]

I get very disturbed about how they blank WW2, teaching the invasion of Manchuria in '37 and Hiroshima/Nagasaki, but damn all inbetween...

[Barklessdog]

I agree totally. I love modern Japanese culture but there lack of acknowleging or avoiding what they did to China is not right. But every country has its share of shame, including genicide, torture & invasion at some point. It does not make it right though.


Thats what I find so shocking about the cartoon. Of coarse the same can be said of South Park, but at least everyone is attacked.

They do stereo type Japan as well in it. The American does not know where the other countries are located on the map (so true), wants to be the hero & eat hamburgers, talking with his mouth full all time.


Whats funny about it is Germany one of the main characters and is only somewhat normal. The cartoon centers around the WWII Axis somewhat like a Marx brothers or a Three Stooges comedy. Only in Japan.....