22-year-old anti-Nazi song tops German charts again — to welcome refugees
@stine1online (835)
Germany
September 5, 2015 6:26am CST
Yes, we did it. Took us only a few days with massive buying on iTunes, Google Store, wishing for the song to be played on the radio and (legally!) streaming it. 
"We wish all Nazis and their sympathizers bad entertainment," the band wrote.
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@TiarasOceanView (70035)
• United States
5 Sep 15
@stine1online Your discussion. I do not understand what is happening regarding singing songs.
@stine1online (835)
• Germany
6 Sep 15
@TiarasOceanView Did you read the article given as reference?
Have you seen news about the huge crowds of mainly Syrian refugees seeking entrance to the EU and especially Germany?
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@scheng1 (24650)
• Singapore
18 Oct 15
I hope that the sentiment will not change to hatred after three years.
It is easy to pity them now, but when they start to create trouble or they are so successful that they steal the jobs away, the sentiment may change.
I wonder how many will return to their country when peace is restored.
@stine1online (835)
• Germany
18 Oct 15
It is not possible for them to steel "our" jobs. They need to have a permanent residency permit and you only get that with German lessons. After that you also have to turn in all papers about your former job and studies and most of them will not get accredittet in Germany so every German with papers from a training or studies will get preferred for any job. We do not have many jobs for people without any training.
@owlwings (43915)
• Cambridge, England
5 Sep 15
While I in no way condone or like fascist sentiments or endorse Nazism, I found the song's lyrics offensive because they appear to address an individual rather than an idea or ethos and the reasons given in the lyrics for being a fascist are suspect, to say the least. The song is a song which screams 'hate' and while I can understand feelings of hate for fascism as embodied in Nazism, the idea of hating a person because of his or her actions or beliefs is uncomfortable to me and the whole song appears to me very far from being a "Cry for Love"!
I'm not sure, either, that it's a very appropriate way of "welcoming" refugees, most of whom may only understand the shouted 'keyword', "Arschloch!".
@stine1online (835)
• Germany
5 Sep 15
Well, it is a punk song to begin with.
And the "cry for love" is not the song. They say that the Nazi behaviour is a cry for attention and therefore for love.
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@topffer (42156)
• France
5 Sep 15
It is a popular mobilization of a new kind
. And it is weird somewhere. Even a Nazi should understand that giving a safe haven to a Syrian or an Iraqi running away from his country occupied by ISIS, is one of the best methods to fight against fundamentalists threatening our civilization. I am happy that Europe realized it and that you put this song at the top again : a good song is never aging
. And it is weird somewhere. Even a Nazi should understand that giving a safe haven to a Syrian or an Iraqi running away from his country occupied by ISIS, is one of the best methods to fight against fundamentalists threatening our civilization. I am happy that Europe realized it and that you put this song at the top again : a good song is never aging