I was reading a story on the HuffPost about a White Supremacist* march and came across this sentence:
“a lone Nazi Bagpiper”???
What does a Nazi Bagpiper play? A drone-enhanced version of the Horst Wessel song? a Scottish-sounding version of Wacht Am Rhein? A weird version of Tomorrow Belongs to Me?**
Just another element of weirdness.
For the record, there were German versions of the bagpipe – the Dudelsack and the Huemmelchen and the *Schäferpfeife * and others, but they were used centuries ago. I’ll bet there was no Dudelsack music in the Third Reich.
*A description I’m sure they’d disagree with
** Yes, I know it;'s not a real Nazi song, and is from Cabaret.
Some years ago up in a mountain pass in the Scottish Highlands, I heard a bagpiper playing what sounded very much like “Deutschland, Deutschland über Alles” and wondered if there were a traditional Scots folk song with a similar melody.
Nope–that was what he was playing. A German tourist had tipped him and made a special request.
I think it’s a description we’d all disagree with. Every time I’ve seen a White Supremacist, it’s been real obvious they were the scrapings off the bottom of the barrel. White Supremacy is all about taking personal credit for other people’s accomplishments and blaming other people for your personal failures.
As someone I know once put it, “These would be among the first ones sent to the camps. Chins and foreheads were a MUST for the Master Race back in the day, as was having EXACTLY ten fingers and toes!”