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To: Romulus
It is noteworthy that the NSDAP had no objection whatsoever to that horrid song (unlike the scene in Casablanca). I have heard a recording of volunteers of SS-Charlemagne singing it as they entrained for the east.

Perhaps the line about "impure blood" was particularly agreeable to them.

At the Mass, several French hymns are usually sung. I believe they are specifically "Royalist." If you wish, I will research further.

13 posted on 01/17/2002 9:15:09 AM PST by Goetz_von_Berlichingen
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To: Goetz_von_Berlichingen
that horrid song (unlike the scene in Casablanca)

Just one of the sleazy tricks of that dishonest propaganda-flick-disguised-as-love-story is the shameless theft of the Marseillaise scene, from Jean Renoir's La Grande Illusion.

17 posted on 01/17/2002 9:25:19 AM PST by Romulus
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