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Music to Invade Poland to	comment	Art produced in Germany has had a startling tendency to be viewed by non-Germans through the prism of is this Nazism or not? This especially applies to German music. And, indeed, to any music that "sounds German" regardless of whether or not it was made in Germany. Music To Invade Poland To refers to any music that gets accused of being Nazi because it sounds "Germanic," "Teutonic," "Wagnerian," or the like. For the most part, this stuff does not advocate National Socialism. Unfortunately, the use of bombastic, dramatic, "Germanic-sounding" Orchestral Bombing as soundtracks in World War II films has cemented the association between grandiose, orchestral marching music set to relatively steady tempos with authoritarian and warmongering political movements. This is not yet a Discredited Trope. The Trope Namer is a particularly infamous review of Rammstein's album Mutter; the review described the album as "Music To Invade Poland To" (although Rammstein, who are a bunch of lefties from the former East Germany, have nothing to do with neo-Nazism, unlike real neo-Nazi bands like the infamous, supposedly reformed "BÃ¶hse Onkelz" do). This trope is actually very common in Germany to this day, where it isn't even limited to music. Pretty much everything that could invoke similar associations creates the same feeling of unease with most Germans. Not to be confused with Loud of War. May be associated with Germanic Depressives. Actual military music from the Third Reich tends to be banal and uninspiring (e.g. Der Panzerlied, a chirpy little ditty featured in Battle of the Bulge), and was more often than not intended to be sung while... you know, actually invading Poland... Incidentally, German music earlier came under attack during the anti-German hysteria of World War I. A generation before it became "Music to Invade Poland To", German music was denounced as "Music to Invade Belgium To". The hymn tune "Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken" very suddenly needed to be set to a new tune, as it used "Deutschland Ãœber Alles" — a stirring theme, but not one held appropriate for British churches after August 1914. Examples
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Music to Invade Poland to / int_2126592a	comment	Girls und Panzer: In the series, the Kuromorimine team, being based off German tanks and tactics, uses instumental versions of both Erika and Panzerlied as their Leitmotif. Bonus points goes to Panzerlied for playing when they reveal the PzKw VII Maus. In Der Film, an instrumental version of When Johnny Comes Marching Home is played in a minor key to invoke this effect when The T28 Superheavy is revealed.
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Music to Invade Poland to / int_2149bc5	comment	The scene in Apocalypse Now was taken, nearly frame by frame, from an old Wochenschau Report (starting at three minutes) about the German conquest of Kreta in 1941.
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Music to Invade Poland to / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons Mr. Burns has a taped version of 'Ride of the Valkyries' ready for when he was going to get Homer's mother arrested for being among the protesters who destroyed his biological weapon lab. Unfortunately, the music immediately switches to 'Waterloo' by ABBA.
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Music to Invade Poland to / int_2b6bf5aa	comment	In Cabaret, a bright young Aryan stands up in a cafe and begins singing "Tomorrow Belongs To Me" as a portent of the age to come. This is intended to show an alternative to the decadence & perversion of the cabaret lifestyle, but can come across as this instead.
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Music to Invade Poland to / int_4b40ff6e	comment	In Metal Gear Solid V, you can upgrade your attack helicopter with a set of loudspeakers. You can then play this trope straight by going on the battlefield while listening to Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries... or sit back and enjoy the show of your trusty chopper mowing down helpless enemy troops with its dual miniguns while cheerfully playing the 80's synth-pop hit Take On Me. Your choice.
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Music to Invade Poland to / int_4f1098ae	comment	Invoked in Hellsing Ultimate Abridged as a prelude to the attack on London.
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Music to Invade Poland to / int_55f41ce9	comment	In Curb Your Enthusiasm, lead character Larry David expresses his appreciation of the music of Wagner. He is a Jew but is not a particularly devout one, however, other Jewish people around him are shocked when they find out he likes Wagner. He claims that he likes the music and does not care what it's associated with.
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Music to Invade Poland to / int_654ebc56	comment	Jojos Bizarre Adventure: Battle Tendency has Propaganda, which is theme of an actual Nazi, who is also a cyborg.
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Music to Invade Poland to / int_65fc3782	comment	Invoked with the Luftwaffe-Marsch from Battle of Britain. It's the Luftwaffe's Leitmotiv throughout the film, and was meant to symbolise its pride prior to the Battle. This tune apparently represented the Luftwaffe so well that many people now think it's an actual German march from World War II.
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Music to Invade Poland to / int_687cf984	comment	For bonus points, the text of "Ode to Joy" is adapted from a poem by Schiller, the poet-playwright who celebrated the striving for liberty, equality, and fraternity in play after play. The best part? In Schiller's version, the quoted line went "Beggars become princes' brothers." If anything, Beethoven was more liberal than Schiller. For extra super-duper special bonus points, "Ode to Joy" is the anthem of the European Union, which — whatever you think of it as it is now — grew out of a desire to get everyone to stop invading things, please, can't we all just get along? The anthem doesn't include Schiller's words — not because the sentiment was disapproved of, but because it would be a bit weird having an anthem for all of Europe that had lyrics in German, or indeed any other language.
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Music to Invade Poland to / int_6a5cadf7	comment	In Foyle's War, Foyle enters a church to find the sneaky sort-of spy Hilda Pierce at the organ, playing Beethoven; he remarks on her choice of music seeming somewhat inappropriate under the circumstances, which she counters by pointing out that it's ridiculous to discredit and discard everything Germany has produced in the past just because they're fighting a war with them right now.
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Music to Invade Poland to / int_6c1d09b3	comment	In Fallout 3 the Enclave, a fascist remnant of the pre-war US Government uses various patriotic American ditties such as â€œYankee Doodleâ€�, â€œBattle Hymn of the Republicâ€�, â€œStars and Stripes Foreverâ€�, â€œAmerica (the beautiful)â€�, Dixieâ€�, the Marine Corps Hymn and modified, sped up versions of â€œThe Washington Postâ€� and â€œHail Columbiaâ€� as music to invade the Capital Wasteland to.
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Music to Invade Poland to / int_70104960	comment	Ditto for "Again We Rise" by Lamb of God, which mocks neo-Confederates as Lower-Class Louts buying into a set of prepackaged lies sold to them by opportunistic politicians, saying that they'd be among the first to die in a real "second Civil War".
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Music to Invade Poland to / int_7698a40b	comment	Lampshaded in Edmund Crispin's mystery novel Swan Song. We have the sophomoric anti-Wagner comments of Oxford students met by a girl who tries to point out how illogical they are, and complaints by a German refugee (who, ironically, has delayed his return because Wagner is now taboo in Germany and he can only attend the operas in England.)
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Music to Invade Poland to / int_7ccc77f0	comment	Alluded to in the Patlabor: The New Files OVA. After having his cover blown by the Griffon's pilot revealing his voice, Utsumi states that it was stupid to even install external speakers on the thing, Kurosaki is quick to reply that it was his own idea, so he could play Wagner as it moved. Utsumi then complains that they haven't got to do that yet.
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Music to Invade Poland to / int_7f20564b	comment	Swedish band Sabaton get this a lot. They make bombastic power metal, their vocalist rolls his Rs in a very particular way, and most of their songs are about WW I and II, quite a few of them from the perspective of German forces. Disregard that they have several songs from the perspective of the nations fighting against Nazi Germany as well as definite anti-war anthems, and that their eight minute epic about the Nazis' rise to power is called Rise of Evil. One of their songs, "Counterstrike", is about the Israeli victory in the Six-Day War. They also have three songs ("40:1", "Uprising", and "Inmate 4859") celebrating the Polish soldiers who fought off the Nazis, making their music a case of "Music To Defend Poland To". Particularly funny would be "Panzerkampf", which is often flagged on YouTube as "inapproppriate", despite its lyrics in clear and unambiguous English describing the Soviet counterattack at Kursk, which finally broke the invasion. The album Coat of Arms also has a song titled "The Final Solution" which portrays the Holocaust as a horrible and condemnable thing, albeit with some lyrics that sound very unfortunate out of context. note "Start the Holocaust, the Reich will rise!" and "Enter the gates, Auschwitz awaits!" It is also said that for a while, the band stopped playing this song live due to being uncomfortable with fans headbanging to a song about the Holocaust. Notably, they also closed their 2020 Wembley show with the screens showing an image of the band overlaid with "Make love, not war" (after "Drinking to the UK" and waving a British flag around), making their position rather clear.
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Music to Invade Poland to / int_85dfff38	comment	Ludwig van Beethoven also gets, at times, used as the background music for scenes of German fascism. Beethoven would be rolling in his grave if he knew, since he was a liberal democratnote small-l, small-d if there ever was one. He was in full support of The French Revolution; dedicated his Third Symphony (Eroica) to Napoleon when he was a good general of the Revolution; promptly un-dedicated it when Napoleon betrayed the Revolution to become Emperor; and his Ode to Joy is a setting of a poem calling for "all men to be brothers" and various other classically liberal lines. For bonus points, the text of "Ode to Joy" is adapted from a poem by Schiller, the poet-playwright who celebrated the striving for liberty, equality, and fraternity in play after play. The best part? In Schiller's version, the quoted line went "Beggars become princes' brothers." If anything, Beethoven was more liberal than Schiller. For extra super-duper special bonus points, "Ode to Joy" is the anthem of the European Union, which — whatever you think of it as it is now — grew out of a desire to get everyone to stop invading things, please, can't we all just get along? The anthem doesn't include Schiller's words — not because the sentiment was disapproved of, but because it would be a bit weird having an anthem for all of Europe that had lyrics in German, or indeed any other language. Beethoven's Fifth Symphony was used by the Allies as a motif in propaganda films ('V' for 'Victory' and fate knocking at Nazi Germany's door). Helpfully illustrated by Donald Duck here (starting at about 2:30, and proceeding throughout the rest of the clip ). The first four notes of the Fifth Symphony (which spell "V" in Morse code) are still widely-known in France for being the opening leitmotif to the French-language BBC broadcast during World War II.
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Music to Invade Poland to / int_8b7b9cd5	comment	The awards ceremony at the end of A New Hope has much more triumphant music... and looks eerily like this scene from Triumph of the Will. Innocent influencing or darker subtext? You decide.note Film students still study the propaganda films of Riefenstahl and Eisenstein because, despite the horrific nature of the regimes they propagandized, their techniques were innovative for their time and have since become the basis of much of modern cinematic language.
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Music to Invade Poland to / int_8bbb4ee8	comment	Done deliberately in Killer Klowns from Outer Space; the composer has referred to the music played when the Klowns march the collection machine through the town as "tanks rolling into Poland", done so that the scene wouldn't be considered as funny as the rest of the movie.
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Music to Invade Poland to / int_8e7e0721	comment	Madness, quite strangely, have been accused of being (depending on the source) Nazis, members of the right-wing National Front, or just fascists in general, in no small part because they ended up having quite a skinhead (as in National Front / BNP) following during the 1980s. This is in spite of the fact that they wrote anti-racist songs like "Embarrassment", which is explicitly about the sax player Lee Thompson's anger over negative reactions by some of his older relatives to his sister being pregnant by a black man, and "Waiting for the Ghost Train", which was a massive Take That! against apartheid. The extreme-right-wing element probably latched onto them as they were the only major 2 Tone group to have an all-white line-up.
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Music to Invade Poland to / int_9340ca12	comment	Manhattan Murder Mystery invokes and lampshades this trope when Larry, played by Woody Allen, says, "I can't listen to that much Wagner, ya know? I start to get the urge to conquer Poland."
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Music to Invade Poland to / int_9959e0f9	comment	Slayer's "Angel of Death" made the band face accusations of being Nazi sympathizers for writing a song about Josef Mengele, a doctor who performed heinous experiments on Jewish concentration camp prisoners. While the band denies condoning his actions and claims they wrote merely the song because they thought it was an interesting subject, they're still sometimes labeled as neo-Nazis. Seeing as the song is performed from the perspective of Mengele (or, at least, one of his lackeys), and sounds downright gleeful, it's no wonder some people are unconvinced. Adding to this, on one of their previous albums, they have a song called "The Final Command" which includes the lyrics "Machine gun tactics of the German command, born with the power of God in his hand." which is referring to Adolf Hitler Slayer is notorious in general for attracting fans with neo-Nazi/white supremacist sympathies, which is ironic because not only is half the band (at least their classic lineup) Latino, but neither of said Latino members were even born in the US. Of the two remaining members, one is Jewish.
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Music to Invade Poland to / int_9fa025d	comment	Invoked in Mother 3, wherein the Pigmask Army uses themes that are half-colonial American, half-Wagnerian. This is best heard in the orchestrated soundtrack.
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Music to Invade Poland to / int_a4a6b86a	comment	The Britannian Anthem in Code Geass sounds aggressive and Germanic. It's in English.note Which is, in fact, a Germanic language. This trope is what made most Japanese viewers mistake it for German (given the story, it's the music to invade Japan to).
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Music to Invade Poland to / int_ae369c06	comment	Brought about in A Clockwork Orange when Alex's aversion treatment added his favorite music, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, to a combination of Nazi films and nausea drugs, causing them all to become fused together in his mind and rendering him unable to hear Beethoven without freaking out.
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Music to Invade Poland to / int_b0fc9724	comment	Parodied on Saturday Night Live (season eight, episode 16, hosted by Robert Guillaumenote who was originally supposed to host a season six episode, but the season was cut short due to Seasonal Rot and a writers' strike; original airdate: March 19, 1983) on a fake commercial for an album collection called Heil Hits.
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Music to Invade Poland to / int_b2e5d161	comment	This march was also used in a number of Allied propaganda films from World War Two as something of a leitmotif for German and Axis militarism, most notably in the first Why We Fight installment (the march is played over increasingly belligerent footage of marching German, Japanese and Italian soldiers, picking up more bass and booming drums with every repetition) and a post VE-Day training film for US occupation troops called Here is Germany.
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Music to Invade Poland to / int_b4967d43	comment	In the soundtracks composed by Masato Nakamura for the first two Sonic the Hedgehog games, all of Dr. Eggman's boss themes and the Wing Fortress theme fit this trope, as to be expected from a world-conquering Mad Scientist who even made his own Death Star.
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Music to Invade Poland to / int_b5a087d7	comment	In Robot Chicken sketch, a radio DJ enthusiastically introduces Rammstein knock-off/parody song, as "Get 'em, They're Different by The Nazis".ï»¿
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Music to Invade Poland to / int_b834beb1	comment	The film Fury (2014) does this in the conventional sense, as near the end of the film there's a scene with an SS battalion singing the actual SS marching song Marschiert in Feindesland. The trope usage is ironic because the film is set in April 1945 when Nazi Germany is on its last legs, Adolf Hitler is only a few weeks away from killing himself, and the Allies have much of the western part of the country occupied while the Soviets are racing towards Berlin. As much as Marschiert in Feindesland might talk about the SS reveling in their Villain Cred and bragging about the places they're going to invade and conquer, the best they can actually do is scrape together a few hundred men not to invade anywhere but in a completely hopeless and doomed attempt to resist their own country's invasion, which they do only because they're terrified of the prospect of facing judgement for their crimes after the war.
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Music to Invade Poland to / int_bd54ba07	comment	In a cut scene from Blazing Saddles, Lili von Shtupp refers to "I'm Tired" as "the song that closed Poland."
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Music to Invade Poland to / int_bf7fe67f	comment	Sausage Party has a brief example during the open musical number. A snippet of â€œRide Of The Valkyriesâ€� plays after an anthropomorphic jar of sauerkraut, who is dressed like Hitler, sings about wanting to â€œexterminate the juiceâ€�.
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Music to Invade Poland to / int_c407bd0b	comment	Triumph of the Will. Justified because the film actually is Nazi propaganda, and deliberately appeals to the audience's passions with dramatic, soaring music.
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Music to Invade Poland to / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who Lampshaded in "The Green Death" when the megalomaniacal computer BOSS is about to Take Over the World. Inverted in "The God Complex". One of the alien characters mentions that their planetary anthem is entitled "Glory to (Insert Name Here)" - Music to be invaded to. It's their hat — surrender immediately in the face of military oppressors, because then the oppression won't be too bad, and they can slyly end up running things their way in the aftermath, thus surviving to be conquered by somebody else.
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Music to Invade Poland to / int_c720f71e	comment	Prior to the invasion of the Ukraine, this could be seen and heard a lot on YouTube as backing music dubbed on to triumphal marches by the modern Russian Army, or to stock footage of Russian Army field exercises. For some reason these vids are hard to locate today. (October 2022)
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Music to Invade Poland to / int_c72c2d06	comment	Star Wars Rebels officially establishes the march as the national anthem of the Empire In-Universe. Going further, "Empire Day" introduces a more upbeat version of the march during a parade on the titular holiday, making it more similar to a real world military march. In fact, in the behind the scenes features for "Empire Day", the producers explicitly point out how difficult it was to make a variant of the Imperial March that sounded like uplifting parade music, specifically pointing out that the official Imperial March is actually kind of dark for what would be realistically expected of a national anthem.
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Music to Invade Poland to / int_cffa1bda	comment	Richard Wagner is the biggest victim of this, mainly because he was a notorious anti-semite and also because his biggest fan was the guy who started the greatest war in all of human history. He was also friends with Friedrich Nietzsche, another German content creator falsely appropriated by Hitler and the Nazis' vision of what ideal German heroics should be. Hitler himself had been quoted to say: "In order to understand National Socialism, you must first understand Wagner." However, unbeknownst to him, Wagner was also a left-leaning socialist for much of his life. He befriended Russian anarchist Mikhail Bakhunin and participated in the Dresden May Uprising, which caused him to be exiled by the Saxon government. Wagner died in 1883 and unfortunately, Hitler got addicted to his operas during his years in Vienna where he suffered from poverty and depression, with only them as his only meaning in life. Thus he and the Nazis appropriated his music and theatrics fifty years after his death. Hitler deliberately patterened his theatrics after Wagner (e.g. in scenes of Triumph of the Will where he would be depicted as a larger-than-life Germanic hero). In his private talks, he constantly shilled Wagner to his inner circle of friends, like an otaku does about anime, much to their annoyance that they of course could not express lest they offend their FÃ¼hrer. Wagnerian music would be played whenever the Nazi tanks charged in their Blitzkrieg, and Romantic classical music and opera (including, you know, Wagner) would be constantly played on the Reich's radio when it wasn't broadcasting propaganda. Even in his downfall and eventual suicide Hitler envisioned himself as a tragic hero ala GÃ¶tterdÃ¤mmerung come to life, but instead of allowing his enemies to relish the victory of ruling over Germany, he intended on bringing all of Germany down with him in dramatic flames. This permanently smeared his character for people unfamiliar with his actual music. Thus, today any of his music or other dramatic sounding music will be unfairly associated with fascistic political views that Wagner never held. However, people who have actually understood his music dramas realize, in the spirit of what Romanticism actually stood for, they advocate something close to liberalism: power and authority corrupts, but love is good. David Goldman, writing as Spengler in the Asia Times, wrote an article on why Wagner was popular and why the Nazis felt such affinity. There was hardly a political movement promising a new man for a new dawn that did not traffic in similar ideas. Lampshaded in Edmund Crispin's mystery novel Swan Song. We have the sophomoric anti-Wagner comments of Oxford students met by a girl who tries to point out how illogical they are, and complaints by a German refugee (who, ironically, has delayed his return because Wagner is now taboo in Germany and he can only attend the operas in England.) As if being appropriated by German fascists wasnâ€™t bad enough, there is now also a Russian paramilitary organization called the Wagner Group, which effectively functions as Vladimir Putinâ€™s private army. Anyone care to listen to some music to invade Crimea to? The State of Israel has long had something of an unofficial ban on the performance of Wagner's music. There's been some movement on that front in recent years, but it is understandably a rather contentious issue.
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Music to Invade Poland to / int_d3634dbb	comment	Casablanca had a well-known scene in which German officers singing a German song are eventually drowned out when the rest of the bar begins singing the La Marseillaise. The song was originally intended to be the Horst-Wessel-Lied, the official anthem of the Nazi party, however the actual song used is Die Wacht Am Rhein (the tune of which is [to different words] the Yale Glee Club's 'Bright College Days') — a German military song, for sure, but unaffiliated with the Nazi party. Warners was unable to use the Horst-Wessel-Lied due to copyright complications in neutral countries. This scene is also a pretty nice aversion of the trope. Casablanca's cast featured a lot of European actors who had fled the onslaught of the Nazis; the emotion on display in this performance of La Marseillaise is not acted.
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Music to Invade Poland to / int_ea4f62db	comment	In one Family Guy special, Alex Borstein objected to Seth McFarlane singing "Edelweiss" on account of her being Jewish. Nevermind that the song was written for the extremely anti-Nazi The Sound of Music.
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Music to Invade Poland to / int_ed954c64	comment	As a character in Gravity's Rainbow has it: "A person feels good listening to Rossini. All you feel like listening to Beethoven is going out and invading Poland."
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Music to Invade Poland to / int_fdd5c1d6	comment	In Margin for Error, the Consul buys a record of Richard Wagner's "Liebestod," but puts on the wrong record first:
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Music to Invade Poland to / int_fe724d7f	comment	Rammstein, for obvious reasons. The cover of the band's debut album◊ Herzeleid featured a shirtless photo of the members; leading to some critics and audiences accusing them of depicting themselves as 'Herrenmenschen' (the master race), and in turn, promoting racist/Nazi/Aryan values. The band wrote "Links 2-3-4" as a response to accusations of Nazism, but since the song's based on a German drill instructor's chant, and you're not going to pick up on the "We're left-wing, dammit!" message in the lyrics if you don't actually speak German, the message didn't exactly get through. To wit, the Trope Naming review was of Mutter, the album containing "Links 2-3-4". The fact that the marching cadence is actually the one used by the pre-Nazi German Communist Party is also missed by most people. Perhaps the band thought their listeners were geniuses. "Amerika", a song poking fun at America, contains a Gratuitous English part to avoid another backfire. But some listeners still didn't catch on. "Deutschland" is a harsh criticism of the band towards their parent country and its history, however this is evident only to German-speakers. As for the rest, the song, and especially the video accompanying it, may border on Misplaced Nationalism.
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