In the years of Nazi Germany there was one singing superstar who was very popular. She was Swedish and had Jewish grandparents. Many of her songs were written by a Jew and a homosexual. She was tall and very beautiful and the Nazis needed her; Marlene Dietrich and Greta Garbo had left Germany. Even Hitler liked her.
One of her songs makes fun of the Germanic idol and praises instead a Jewish kind of man. The song became a huge hit and the Nazis could not stop it.
She made many schlocky musicals, they were meant to make the population happy. One of these massive musical scenes needed many tall and stunning women to match Zarah Leander.
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It was impossible to find these beauties. The Nazis stepped in to help. They supplied dozens of tall SS-men, dressed them in women's costumes and made them up to dance with the star. When I found out about that, I laughed for a long time.
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The song can be downloaded and played, it is not bad and slightly funny.
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That Er heißt Waldemar was a major commercial success is not surprising .. until you listen closely to the lyrics and consider: the date, late 30s under the Nazi dictatorship; singer, the foreign Swede, Leander; the composer, Michael Jary, a Christian categorized under Nazi law as a Jew; and the lyricist, Bruno Balz, an open homosexual. Note Waldemar's Slavic name; "wrong" hair and eye coloring and lack of Nordic qualities and virtues; and particularly consider the song's last line - unfortunately not contained in this excerpt. [And also note the numerous doubles entendres .... click for the song's full text.]
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Here is the complete song as an mp3, 4MB large and only practical for listening over a broadband connection, not a dial up connection; even with broadband, there may be a 3 - 4 minute download time. The unusually wide octave range of Leander's voice can be glimpsed in this snippet of Jede Nacht ein neues Glück.
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http://www.hudsoncity.net/culture/german/music.htm#the%20foreign%20Swede,
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http://www.history.ucsb.edu/faculty/marcuse/classes/33d/projects/naziwomen/zarah.htm