February 21, 2003

• The latest thing to come down the alt.binaries.sounds.78rpm-era pipeline is a collection of WWII swing band music produced by German forces and broadcast to England from France.
  
  The music swings, obviously, and then there’s a singer with a somewhat stilted American accent, and mid-song he’ll start talking about how England is doomed.
  
  Quite amusing, from my position in history at the beginning of the twenty-first century. I mean.. Nazi swing bands? Too bad Mel Brooks hadn’t written ‘Springtime for Hitler’ at that point…
  
  I can’t imagine how these songs played on the offensive vs. laughable spectrum in blitz-era England, though.

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