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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">From: <span class="gd"><span style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Kevin & Cheryl Caldwell</span></span><span class="gi"> </span><span class="go"><<a href="mailto:kevin.caldwell1963@verizon.net">kevin.caldwell1963@verizon.net</a>></span><br>
Subject: <span class="gi">LL-L "History" 2009.10.02 (02) [EN]</span><br>
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<span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">“AO” means “Auslands-Organisation” or “Foreign
Organization.”</span></p>
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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Kevin Caldwell</span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Laurel</span><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">, MD</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: navy;">From: Roger Thijs, Euro-Support, Inc. <<a href="mailto:roger.thijs@euro-support.be" target="_blank"><span style="color: navy;">roger.thijs@euro-support.be</span></a>><br>
Subject: LL-L Cultural Interactions<br style="">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: navy;">I found a little book with songs (with score) in an antiquarian
bookshop, and I'm wundering which ones of the songs are still acceptable and
sung in Germany</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: navy;">The title:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: navy;">Liedersammlung der Reichsdeutschen Gemeinschaft in Belgium, no
date, Eigentum der Ortsgruppe der AO der NSDAP.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: navy;">(What is the AO?)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: navy;">Herausgegeben von der Landesgruppenleitung der AO der NSDAP in
Belgien von G. Höhne, Landesgruppenschulungsleiter.</span></p>
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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">From: <span class="gd"><span style="color: rgb(91, 16, 148);">Jacqueline Bungenberg de Jong</span></span><span class="gi"> </span><span class="go"><<a href="mailto:Dutchmatters@comcast.net">Dutchmatters@comcast.net</a>></span><br>
Subject: <span class="gi">LL-L "History" 2009.10.02 (02) [EN]</span><br>
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<span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Re: die Fahnen Hoch and other incendiary materials”</span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Roger: I
recognize that filth from the second world war. Therefore it is not an antique.
So burn it.</span></p>
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If you tell me when, I’ll come and dance in the flames. </span></p>
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If on the other hand it dates from WW!, you may burn it because it is outdated.</span></p>
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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Jacqueline BdJ</span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Seattle</span><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> USA</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From:
<span class="gd"><span style="color: rgb(200, 137, 0);">M.-L. Lessing</span></span><span class="gi"> </span><span class="go"><<a href="mailto:marless@gmx.de">marless@gmx.de</a>></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject:
<span class="gi">LL-L "History" 2009.10.02 (02) [EN]</span></p>
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<p style="font-family: times new roman,serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Dear Roger, I think the AO
was the Auslandsorganisation. As to the songs, of course they are history and
as such must not be forgotten, not even for being dangerous anymore. This
powder is wet I hope. I am confident we can trust these days' generations, these
songs can be no handle for demagogues anymore. </span></p>
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<p style="font-family: times new roman,serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Having old parents, aunts and
uncles, in fact I know about half of the songs, and I am good at remembering
songs :-) Many are Kitsch, and the text of most would never bring anyone to
their feet; but the melodies are most of them catchy, which was what the Nazis
were after. Nobody would mind texts. My mother tells me of an appalling scene.
She was born in 1923 and was only 9 when the Nazis came to power, but having
been infected by the sports-and-coolness-propaganda she wished very much to
join the BDM (Bund deutscher Mädel), which she could have done regularly only
at 10 years old, but she insisted to enter the organisation even at 9. Her
parents, being of a christian stamp, were reluctant, but she prevailed. 1933
there was a magnificent Fackelzug of SS, SA or whatever there was through Hamburg, performed at
night, and the little girls were allowed to line the streets in their smart new
mocca-brown gear. All Hamburg
seemed awake and on their feet in that night to little Ruth Jungclaus. She
remembers streets full of life and, at the same time, solemnity; an endless
train of men, high as towers, marching in step through the night, their torches
mounting even higher, and singing ---. They sang:</span></p>
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<p style="font-family: times new roman,serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">"...und wenn das
Judenblut vom Messer spritzt,</span></p>
<p style="font-family: times new roman,serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">dann geht's nochmal so
gut..."</span></p>
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<p style="font-family: times new roman,serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Mama remembers only these
lines, but she can even sing the tune to these lines today. As a child, she
stood aghast, wondering whether the men knew what they sang or whether she
misunderstood it... Thousands stood by, applauding... 12 years later everybody
said they had never known Jews were being killed... So you see nobody heeds
texts of songs. But still, I think, they can be used to open doors inside
people -- to remove restraints, familiarize people to certain notions. It
seems to me the Nazis did most manipulations with the unconscious of people.
They never let themselves in for argument or texts. Melodies, coolness, such
were their level.</span></p>
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<p style="font-family: times new roman,serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">As to your Nr.6, it is a song
of many faces. The Nazi text is here </span><a href="http://ingeb.org/Lieder/bruderin.html" target="_blank">http://ingeb.org/Lieder/bruderin.html</a><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">. But my mother taught me the song was an old battle
song of the Sozialdemokraten. That text is to be found here </span><a href="http://www.volksliederarchiv.de/text4691.html" target="_blank">http://www.volksliederarchiv.de/text4691.html</a><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">. The melody being extremely catchy, the Nazis may
simply have adapted it. They seem to have done so often.</span></p>
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<p style="font-family: times new roman,serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Oh, these Nazis. They are
anything but dead and forgotten. You see their imprint in our
lives everywhere.</span></p>
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<p style="font-family: times new roman,serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Hartlich!</span></p>
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<p style="font-family: times new roman,serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Marlou</span></p>
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