Nazis @ MindSay

Last month a woman by the name of Eva Mozes Kor came and spoke at a school.
I attended out of curiosity because she was a Holocaust survivor.
Turns out she was one of the survivors of Doctor Josef Mengele's experiments on twins in World War Two. (For those of you who have absolutely NO concept of history, the Holocaust happened during World War Two (WWII). If you don't know what the holocaust was go read your history books and look for the 1940s. Wikipedia is not a resource. Go get off your chair and get an encyclopedia if you don't have a history book. Failing that go to the Online Encyclopedia Britannica.)
She forgave the Nazis even though they did all sorts of nasty things to her.
She is Jewish and has been rejected by some of her own people for forgiving the Nazis.
I think if this woman could bring herself to forgive her worst enemy, shouldn't the rest of us be able to at least forgive the most petty of things?

To get more of her story go to her museum website here. 

Dixie currently feels:

Unimpressed

 

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I AM SO SICK OF "DIXIE CHICKS" COMING UP AS A SUGGESTED TAG.

 

They're simply terrible.

I downloaded some of their songs a while ago out of curiosity.

And I didn't like them, so.

 

 

Urgh, I can smell chicken.

And it's really... Seasoned and strange.

I don't know where the scent's coming from either.

 

...And what on EARTH is this song...

 

...ROFL, IT'S SKILLET.

 

I went on a downloading fit the other day and got loads.

More of the Guitar Hero soundtracks, more Rammstein, more everything else.

 

It's that song I mentioned I liked.

Now, if I'd waited to hear him SING... Or... ATTEMPT TO sing... Then I'd have known what it was. :)

Tee hee.

 

His singing isn't AS bad on this song.

It's still bad, though.

 

 

Mein Herz Brennt - by Rammstein; sounds like the two bands having a fight.

It's like Christian Lorenz (Rammstein's keyboardist) is having a fight with the silly cow from Skillet who plays the violin - and Till Lindemann (Rammstein's singer) has tied up this twat and gagged him, before making up his own lyrics.

 

It's great actually - and fun to imagine.

 

I've got loads of songs waiting to be listened to in my downloads folder - but they're already in the library, and they keep coming on and I'm thinking: "WTF IS THIS..."

 

I've downloaded a Pink Floyd song that's like... 13 minutes long?

 

I downloaed Iowa by Slipknot before, and that's 15 minutes.

I kept putting off listening to it - but when I did, I liked it... So maybe I should give Shine On, You Crazy Diamond a chance.

 

 

...IT KNOWS I'M TALKING ABOUT MUSIC.

DIXIE CHICKS IS STILL A SUGGESTED TAG.

 

ARGGGGGGGGH.........................

 

 

Anyway.

I have nothing better to do.

So I'm going to list my favourite Rammstein songs. Yay.

 

I'll even put a translation to the song title for those who don't listen to Rammstein or speak fluent German, tee hee.

 

 

1. Rosenrot                 (Rose-red)
2. Teir                           (Animal)
3. Klavier                     (Piano)
4. Du Hast                    (You Have)
5. Reise Reise             (Arise, Arise)
6. Engel                        (Angel)
7. Ich Will                      (I Want)
8. Mein Teil                  (My Part)
9. Keine Lust               (No Desire)
10. Zwitter                      (Hermaphrodite)
11. Sonne                       (Sun)
12. Buck Dich                (Bend Over)
13. Ohne Dich                (Without You)
14. Seemann                  (Sailor)
15. Amerika                    (America)
16. Benzin                        (Petrol)
17. Links 2, 3, 4              (Left 2, 3 4)
18. Herzeleid                   (Heartache)
19. Dalai Lama
20. Du Riechst So Gut    (You Smell So Good)

 

I like Rammstein a lot.

The first song I listened to by them was Ich Will.

 

I was asked to make a CD for road trips - with songs that I liked, songs that dad liked, songs that mam liked, and songs that out friend David liked.

 

I asked what bands David liked - and mam suggested Rammstein.

I downloaded the first one on the list - which was Ich Will.

 

I put it on a CD randomly which I was taking on holiday with me to Zante.

I would skip the first 8 songs, and continuously listen to Ich Will.

 

When I came home, I downloaded Keine Lust, Ohne Dich, Du Hast, Sonne and Buck Dich.

 

(Yes, I know that the U in 'buck' should have those dots above it, but I don't know the keyboard shortcut for them.)

 

 

I did my pre-production part of my Media Studies coursework on Rammstein - researching their history, analysing their image, their lyrics - and designing new album covers for them.

 

I filled a whole A3 sketchpad in 20 hours - over the course of two days.

And I got full marks.

Not a single mark was dropped.

 

 

I've made a presentation about them for my Music coursework, which I'm yet to present.

I've put on music samples, videos with subtitles, images, lyric translations - all that stuff.

I don't know anybody in my school other than Stephen who likes Rammstein.

He's the one who suggested I download Mein Herz Brennt.

 

He randomly came up to me and asked what Zwitter meant.

He looked quite shocked when I told him - as he'd been wandering around the house singing it.

 

 

German is such a cool language.

It's easy to write - easy to say.

The only thing that annoys me are the spelling rules - as in English, we'd put the I before the E.

In German, it's the other way around.

 

See, I go out of my way to learn translations, analyse lyrics and find hidden meanings, look up band history, all that - for the bands I really like.

 

I only own one Rammstein CD - which is Reise Reise (and I listened to it for 20 hours on loop as I did my Media Studies coursework...) and I only own one T-shirt - but it's faded, as I wear it a lot.

 

It's a Sehnsucht shirt - with all six band members' faces on it, with metal objects implanted and embedded in their skin.

Very cool. :)

 

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Rammstein have had a huge impact on the style and subjects I write about in my novel, Experiment #1263: The Beginning.

There's a lot of references, as well as obvious influences.

 

Two of the scientists of the Topaz development team, and one of the Ruby development team are of German nationality.

Their names stem from the names of Rammstein's band members, and other German influences:

 

 

Hermann Lorenz --- "Lorenz" comes from "Christian Lorenz", Rammstein's keyboardist, and "Hermann" is a popular German first name.

 

Christian Gruttmann --- "Christian" comes from "Christian Lorenz", and "Grutmann" comes from "Joy Grutmann", the six-year-old girl who sang the "Schnappi, das kleine Krokodil" lyrics.

 

Rubin Schneider --- "Schneider" comes from "Christoph Schneider", Rammstein's drummer, and "Rubin" is German for "Ruby".

 

 

#1263 is later given a real name - "Rosenrot."

Obviously taken from my favourite Rammstein song.

 

The song itself is based on a story by The Brothers Grimm; which is also mentioned numerous times, as it is a story that #1263's father reads to her, and then names her after one of the characters.

 

The themes of some Rammstein songs are mentioned also.

 

Later in the story, #1263 learns to play the piano, and every time she is seen by the scientists; they proclaim "Dort am klavier, ist Rosenrot" ("There at the piano is [Rose-red]")

"Dort am klavier" is the first line of the chorus to Klavier.

 

#1263 herself never speaks a number in English - as she was taught to count by one of the German scientists, she only ever speaks numbers in that language. - This was slightly inspired by the chorus of Sonne, in which Till counts down to sunrise.

 

An act of colonic irrigation takes place at the start of the story to punish #1263 for a wrongdoing.

The phrase "Buck Dich, Zwolf-Dreiundsechzig" ("Bend over Twelve-Sixty-Three") - of course, is inspired by the lyrics and theme of Buck Dich.

 

The song Mutter is themed around a person who was not born via natural childbirth - does not have a navel, or a mother, and is constantly searching for one.

This is the same as #1263's situation, as she was created as an experimental hybrid, and also didn't have a true mother, wasn't given birth to and doesn't have a navel.

 

See?

Very influencial indeed. :)

 

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What annoys me, is how prejudiced and ignorant people are.

When they learn that Rammstein are German, they automatically assume they're Nazis and Hitler supporters.

 

The only cool thing about Hitler - is that he was German, had a cool moustache, and knew what he wanted. Other than that, he was a downright prick who caused far too many deaths which could have been avoided if he'd just been dealt with sooner.

 

But as I say - it's only because of their nationality that Rammstein are accused of that.

If they were Russian, they'd be accused of being communists.

Or would they?

 

How often do you hear people accusing t.A.T.u of being communists?

 

Hm, exactly.

 

Get your head out of your arses, you stereotyping idiots.

If you look deep into Rammstein's lyrics, they're highly spiritual, intelligent and whimsical. Most are very thought provoking too - dealing with matters that no English band would ever dare to sing about.

 

Rammstein must be applauded for their efforts.

 

Ich liebe Rammstein.

Heil Rammstein. :)

 

Today in the Czech Republic, a group of Neo-Nazis celebrated the anniversary of kristallnacht (Nov 10 1938) by holding a protest in the predominantly jewish area of the capital city - Prague.

 

The clash between the jewish residents and the nazis was buffered by large numbers of police but none-the-less, several brutal fights broke out. For the most part, the protesters were beaten and bloodied and took refuge behind police.

 

This tells us two things:

 

1- these neo-nazis are really stupid.

 

2- the participants seem to have forgotten that the nazis viewed the Czechs as a sub-human race whose only use was as slaves in the factories and fields of the new Reich. It was after all, the nazis who conquered and destroyed Czechoslovakia in W.W. II. 

 

Then again, what would you expect from nazis? They're never the shiniest apples on the tree.

Godwin's law states:

As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison to nazis or Hitler approaches one.

This is, I'm afraid to say, inevitable. I've seen it a dozen times myself. You probably have as well. You could be talking about Simpsons Vs Family Guy, Apply Juice vs. Orange Juice, abortion vs. adoption... it doesn't matter. Eventually, someone will bring in the Nazis.

Why is this? I think it is because Hitler and the Nazis are the closest things to pure human evil that recent history has to offer and the majority of people know who Hitler was and what he did. Therefore, if  you want something to be bad, you associate it with the worst things in your mind.  E.T. the Extraterrestrial  on Atari, Baby Geniuses 2,  Ed Wood, etc... but worse than all of those (except maybe E.T. on atari) is Hitler and the Nazis. And unlike our fictional bogeymen, Hitler was real, and is a constant reminder of the evils that mankind unchecked can bring upon itself.