Hairs on your neck standing up

I guess if you grow up listening to it all the time, in the background on radio and TV etc...you may have an adverse reaction. But then millions of Americans just love it... don't they.
 
Maybe it works the other way round. I hate German "Volksmusik". Maybe you guys like it?

Get some of this crazy rockin' music right here:

 
Lili Marleen?
Die Lorelei
Trink, Trink, Bruderlein Trink

Nette Lieder. Oktoberfest ist viel Spass.

Ich glaube "Das Panzerlied" verboten ist, aber es ist auch eine nette lied. IMO
 
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Lili Marleen?
Die Lorelei
Trink, Trink, Bruderlein Trink

Nette Lieder. Oktoberfest ist viel Spass.

Ich glaube "Das Panzerlied" verboten ist, aber es ist auch eine nette lied. IMO<center><hr width="100%"/></center></blockquote></span>

Not bad, you even know some traditional German songs.

"Das Panzerlied"? Sounds like Nazi - stuff. If it is: FORBIDDEN! Especially here in Germany. Although I've downloaded some WWII - songs for my grandpa couple of years ago.

"Deutsche Panzer im Afrikakorps"

"Wir sind die braunen Soldaten"

Holy cow, they even have it on youtube:


This is the ultimate propaganda. They're singing that they're proudly marching into war for Adolf Hitler fighting for freedom and justice and so on.
 
The Panzerlied is the equivalent of "Anchors Away" or "Off We Go into the Wild Blue Yonder" - the service songs of the US Navy and Air Force, respectively. It does not extol any Nazi virtues, it is merely a song about pride in the branch of the service in which these guys serve. If banned, it probably should not be. It is not truly a Nazi song like Die Fahne Hoch - merely a song about serving with your comrades and being proud of your service under trying circumstance. If it would get you in trouble, do not look it up - it is of the era.

I assume your grandfather served in WW2. Is so, where and with what unit did he serve? I would say this to anyone who had a family member who served in the war, I don't care which side. If he will, have him tell you about his experiences and write it down. This is history that is rapidly disappearing.
 
OK, I just read that the German Panzerlied is still sung today in the German Bundeswehr (=army) although it was quite popular during WWII. They had to skip some strophes which were too National Socialist. Like we do with our German national anthem. We only sing the third strophe and never the first two strophes since they contain stuff like "Germany, Germany above everything in the world" and so on. The complete text would be like this:

    Das Lied der Deutschen

    Deutschland, Deutschland über alles,
    Über alles in der Welt,
    Wenn es stets zu Schutz und Trutze
    Brüderlich zusammenhält,
    Von der Maas bis an die Memel,
    Von der Etsch bis an den Belt –
    |: Deutschland, Deutschland über alles,
    Über alles in der Welt!

    Deutsche Frauen, deutsche Treue,
    Deutscher Wein und deutscher Sang
    Sollen in der Welt behalten
    Ihren alten schönen Klang,
    Uns zu edler Tat begeistern
    Unser ganzes Leben lang –
    |: Deutsche Frauen, deutsche Treue,
    Deutscher Wein und deutscher Sang!

    Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit
    Für das deutsche Vaterland!
    Danach lasst uns alle streben
    Brüderlich mit Herz und Hand!
    Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit
    Sind des Glückes Unterpfand –
    |: Blüh im Glanze dieses Glückes,
    Blühe, deutsches Vaterland!

Don't worry, if there is one thing that German grandpas like to tell their grandchildren, it's their experiences in WWII. We've talked a lot about that.

My mother's dad served in the German air force as a reconnaissance pilot, my father's dad was in the Germany marine corps stationed for a long time in Norway where the U.S. troops destroyed his ship and arrested him and his crew.

I'll see if I can find some pics.
 
Here we go. Only found my mother's dad.

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Those are indeed cool. Family treasures. As a WW2 airplane junkie (love the old prop jobs), what was he flying?
 
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