Ive <ive### [at] lilysoftorg> wrote:
> Am 22.09.2012 21:00, schrieb Stephen:
> >
> > Thank you for that. I have just spent about an hour listening to Marika
> > Rökk. I loved this clip on you tube:
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOc8zFCzxno
> >
> Wow. Marika Rökk, thats a surprise ;)


Well I did enjoy jazz and blues at one time and I can listen to it occasionally.

> Note that this video is part of a documentary and those NS "Kraft durch
> Freude" scenes are not part of the movie.

The last scene being in colour was a bit of a giveaway. :-)

> Personally I do not like this
> kind of editing as especially this movie cannot be considered as NS
> propaganda flick - after all it features American jazz and tap-dance!

I understand you not liking it as it does hark back to those days. But for me it

clothes on. Although Jazz was banned in Germany during the NS years. I believe
that Goebbels encouraged a home grown film industry which included  German


> But on the other hand she did participate in 3rd Reich propaganda movies
> and - like Leni Riefenstahl - always claimed that she was just and
> artist and did know nothing ...
>
I do sympathise in a way. It is not as if she were pitchforking babies into a
truck, just keeping up moral of the folk at home.
Anyway I cannot get that tune out of my head. I am sure that I have heard it in
English from about the same period.

Stephen

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