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To: beebuster2000
what was the original punk reference? was it also to the holocaust?

Absolutely. It was a song about the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp apparently written from the viewpoint of an SS guard who was happy to be assigned there because it was a plum assignment safe behind enemy lines and a guard could steal as much loot as he could carry from the victims.

The British were very proud of their role in liberating the death camp, and a punk singer singing from the viewpoint of one of England's most despised enemies was designed to shock and offend the proper English establishment that the punks hated.

Basically it paints a tableaux of a fat, greedy Nazi REMF killing Jews for fun and profit.

I believe that the original Sex Pistols vocalist Johnny Rotten admits the song was indefensible.

13 posted on 09/14/2007 5:45:34 AM PDT by wideawake (Why is it that so many self-proclaimed "Constitutionalists" know so little about the Constitution?)
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To: wideawake

I wonder if Bell Canada is now offering it as a ring tune. /sarc


14 posted on 09/14/2007 5:49:21 AM PDT by timsbella (Mark Steyn for Prime Minister of Canada! (Steve's won my vote in the meantime))
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