• HardlightCereal@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    A fool once told me that Sabaton is a Nazi band because of their song “The Final Solution”

    Ever since it started
    On Kristallnacht '38
    When liberty died
    And truth was denied

    They said only Nazis call it Kristallnacht, because it sounds too poetic

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      They said only Nazis call it Kristallnacht, because it sounds too poetic

      In Germany this is true. Most people call it Reichsprogromnacht because Reichskristallnacht is a term coined by the Nazis and it really sounds kinda poetic.

      But I wouldn’t blame non native speakers for not knowing all the nuances and I don’t know how old the song is and the context makes everything clear.

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        The song is also a poem. It’s not a high energy exciting song like Sabaton’s usual fare, it’s just a poem with drums and guitar. You can hear every single word clearly. Is it considered appropriate to use such poetic language in poems?

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          Maybe poetic is the wrong word. Kristal means cristal (if not obvious) which is a shiny and very positive conotated word. The message is that destroying all the synagogues with all the violence included is a good thing because it makes Germany look better.

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      It’s a fallacy called cherry picking, picking something specific and ignoring context. One could easily cherry pick parts of other Sabaton songs as “defense” for nazis (Ghost Division) or even the soviets (Attero Dominatus)

      Now that I think about it, the history book I had during my high school called it Crystal Night, I guess because it sounds more memorable than “Pogrom Night”