Thursday, February 3, 2011

Hitler song

I game across this bit of history while watching the movie "John Rabe" recently. Rabe was a German industrialist working in China in 1937; at the time the Japanese army attacked and destroyed much of that city. Rabe spearheaded an effort by foreign nationals there to save 200,000 Chinese civilians from certain death at the hands of the Japanese. He was able to do this-to some degree-because Germany and Japan were allies and Japanese military officials did not want to treat him too harshly. The obvious irony here is that Rabe-a German under Hitler-who may not have been a devoted Nazi, helped save innocent civilians from genicide.
On a lighter note the movie noted a anti-Hitler song written in 1939 who's basic lyrics were;
"Hitler has only one ball,
Goering has two but very small,
Himmler is somewhat sim'lar,
But poor Goebbels has no balls at all".
The lyrics are set to the "Colonel Bogie March".
If you google the song's first line you will find other verses to the song under Wikipedia.org. I am not sure how you might or should use this in a public school classroom, but I include it anyway.
(Source: John Rabe, a movie and Wikipedia.org under the song title. Researched on this date).

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