Beate Zschäpe hört U2
Beate Zschäpe listens to U2
- 1. Eva Hermann was the host of the ARD daily news, mentioned here because she made a comment about the Third Reich saying that "it wasn't all that bad".
- 2. Günter Grass is a German writer. Mentioned here because of a poem he wrote where he criticised Israel's military policies.
- 3. Beate Zschäpe is a right-wing extremist and memeber of the National Socialist Underground (NSU).
- 4. MaKss Damage is a German right-wing rapper.
- 5. Jürgen Möllemann is a politician of the FDP party who made quite a few antisemitic comments. He died in 2003 in a parachuting accident.
- 6. Ex-federal chairman of the NPD party. His last name- Apfel- literally means "apple," which makes for a nice pun.
- 7. Name for the "run-of-the-mill German citizen," equivalent to John Smith or Jane Doe.
- 8. Jürgen Elsässer is a journalist and editor of Monatsmagazin Compact, where he publishes conspiracy theories.
- 9. KenFM was a radio show by Ken Jebsen, where he expressed antisemitic views.
Grazie! ❤ | ||
thanked 7 times |
1. | #Wir sind mehr |
1. | Pizza |
2. | Fick die Uni |
3. | Verliebt |
1. | Der Apfel fällt nicht weit vom Stamm. |
2. | Have it bad |
3. | John Doe/Jane doe |
4. | Run of the mill |
>"I know the feeling when your peers constantly stand in front of your door, trying to terrorize you"
Meant by "Kameraden" (-> here translated as "peers") are the fascists, because that's what they would call themselves
>"das Klirren der Scheiben" =
the clangor of breaking windowpanes
>"kicked the Greeks" = kicked the Greek (singular)
Thank you so much for the corrections!! I'll update my translation.
As for Günter Grass, I thought of just writing that he criticised Israel, but that wouldn't explain why he was included in the song. The writers must've interpreted his poem as antisemitic- otherwise they wouldn't have put him with people like Holger Apfel and Jürgen Möllemann. I'll change the wording of my explanation to remain more neutral.
The matter is, that he was critizised being antisemitic, by the German Jewish Council.
They scold everybody being "antisemitic", who critizises Israel's policy, as an automatic reflex in these politically critical times.
I studied his "poem" thoroughly and could not detect any antisemitism.
Rather more the opposite. He says he basically likes Israel und the Israeli people.
But if you are a friend, you should be allowed to critizise a friend, as long as it is in a factual manner.
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Günter Grasses poem did not show any "antisemitic tendencies". It was just critical with german arms shipments to Israel and Israel's military policies (precisely: their uncontrolled handling of nuclear arms)