“They’re gonna play music!
“What!?
“They’re gonna play Wagner. Scares the hell out of the slopes!
“This is a Romeo Foxtrot, shall we dance?
(Cues Ride of the Valkyries)
I flew Hueys in Vietnam and I swear I am not making it up when I told the C.O. that the Valkyrie theme would be a heck of a backdrop as our helicopters were taking off every morning (like the bugle charge call in the movie later on). He reminded me that the 115V provided by the aircraft inverters was 400 cycle, not 60 cycle which would fry any tape deck. Sounded like a good idea, though.
Anyway, whoever said Leon Uris `peeled back the layers of naziism in the German pysche” was spot on. I sensed it when I was stationed in FRG in the 1980’s. Jokes about the Holocaust being told by GI’s German wives just as an example.
The Israelis have a right to their qualms about Wagner, IMO.
I had a blind date with a very good-looking German man back about 1980, oy, such a long time ago! Now, you can’t paint all Germans with a broad brush, but I swear I was with him not 10 minutes before he started talking against the Jews in a gross way. This was in NYC so I guess he noticed a few of them. My skin crawled and I was outta that date within the next 5 minutes(I’m not Jewish, by the way).
I imagine you look a lot like Robert Duvall, lol!