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I don't think anyone on this nut house forum watches anything like this, maybe @rupol2000, but not much else. Today, I bring you ParaLight Worx's "Lili Marlene".
Lili Marlene was written in the First World War in 1915 by a drafted German teacher. He originally wrote it as a poem, using the name of his girlfriend "'Lili" and of another friend of his, a nurse, named "Marlene". The poem was put to music in 1937 and was a smash hit, until Goebbels, Reich Propaganda Minister, changed it up because it was discouraging soldiers from fighting. Never the less, the people wanted the song, so he finally relented.
The below videos are from German short film maker, ParaLight Worx. I watch the WWII short films they make, but they do other historical pieces as well. American Hollywood movies have as a rule, been bad at portraying German soldiers during WWII. The stereotype of heartless supermen is way overused, and is not as historically accurate as some would have you believe. ParaLight Worx fixes that stigma, and gives a rare look at the German side of the war, and how their soldiers felt.
The video below is a short film called Lili Marlene, where two soldiers, one American, and the Other German, find their paths crossed in Normandy after the D-Day landings. It is a very touching story. The Germans speak German, and the Americans, though portrayed by German actors, speak good English. The German scenes are subtitled in English.
If you watch nothing else , at least give this song a listen. The girl who sang it did it wonderfully, even better than the WWII Marlene Dietrich version if I say so myself.
If you liked the videos, I would highly recommend watching their short film series, "Dusty Faces", a fictional story of a young Machine Gunner named Otto, as he and his squad fight a retreat after the battle of Kursk, and towards Germany. It is in my opinion, better than any military movie Hollywood has bothered to put out.
Lili Marlene was written in the First World War in 1915 by a drafted German teacher. He originally wrote it as a poem, using the name of his girlfriend "'Lili" and of another friend of his, a nurse, named "Marlene". The poem was put to music in 1937 and was a smash hit, until Goebbels, Reich Propaganda Minister, changed it up because it was discouraging soldiers from fighting. Never the less, the people wanted the song, so he finally relented.
The below videos are from German short film maker, ParaLight Worx. I watch the WWII short films they make, but they do other historical pieces as well. American Hollywood movies have as a rule, been bad at portraying German soldiers during WWII. The stereotype of heartless supermen is way overused, and is not as historically accurate as some would have you believe. ParaLight Worx fixes that stigma, and gives a rare look at the German side of the war, and how their soldiers felt.
The video below is a short film called Lili Marlene, where two soldiers, one American, and the Other German, find their paths crossed in Normandy after the D-Day landings. It is a very touching story. The Germans speak German, and the Americans, though portrayed by German actors, speak good English. The German scenes are subtitled in English.
If you watch nothing else , at least give this song a listen. The girl who sang it did it wonderfully, even better than the WWII Marlene Dietrich version if I say so myself.
If you liked the videos, I would highly recommend watching their short film series, "Dusty Faces", a fictional story of a young Machine Gunner named Otto, as he and his squad fight a retreat after the battle of Kursk, and towards Germany. It is in my opinion, better than any military movie Hollywood has bothered to put out.
