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onsdag den 20. maj 2015

’Der Wahre Heino’


”It is unironically disturbing, however, that he (Heino) chose in 1973 to record a version of ‘Schwarzbraun ist die Hazelnuss’, a nineteenthe-century German folk song which was revived in the twentieth century and became a very popular Hitler Youth anthem. As well as the hazelnut, black and brown were the colours of the National Socialist Party, the colours which the song’s protagonist hint that his Mâdchen should sport if she wishes to be his girl. His version of the song was a great favourite witk neo-Nazis and, in South Africa, pro-apartheid Afrikaaners.”

- et af de mere bemærkelsesværdige og grimme kulturfænomener, som krautrockerne var oppe i mod. Citatet stammer fra den aldeles fremragende bog, ’Future Day. Krautrock And The Building Of Modern Germany’, af David Stubbs


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