WHICH CONFUSED THEM

Probably the best thing to do while drinking your morning coffee, when both social media and the news sites tell you the world is utterly vile, is to listen to military music. My choice this morning was the Königgrätzer Marsch. No, it is not a Nazi tune, though most people remember it from that scene in Indiana Jones where books are being tossed onto a bonfire in Berlin.

Like that part in Blackhawk Down which used The Minstrel Boy, a famous pairing of a song with laden visuals, it contributed to a narrative.
That was tale-telling. Fiction.

The Königgrätzer was written two generations before the National Socialists came to power.



I should mention that it is indeed one of the limited number of musical pieces that middle America's basement dwelling buttock hats know, the others frequently being Dixie and The Yellow Rose of Texas.
Sometimes there are a few more airs.
Often considerably less.


After the election, the Horst Wessel Lied had a brief resurgence in popularity, until those people realized that it was all in German, and therefore too complicated and foreign for them to memorize.





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