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From: "Robin Hamilton" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, July 24, 2005 10:32 PM
Subject: Re: help! tidal piano
>> "Whenever I hear the word Culture I reach for my
>
> I think in the original (and was this was uttered by either Goebels or the
> leader of the then Hitler Youth Movement) the term in was "luger".
>
> But it may have lost something in translation.
>
No. The remark is erroneously attributed to Goering; sometimes to Goebbels.
But its real source was a play, Schlageter, by the Nazi playwright Hans
Johst. It was performed in late 1933 or early '34, and was based on the
life of Albert Leo Schlageter, a Stalhelm or early Nazi fighter shot by
French soldiers in the occupied Rhineland after WWI. The character based on
him speaks the line in the play. Johst (and his audiences) approved.
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