Just when I thought Pete Doherty was finally behaving himself

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British Rocker Dragged Off Stage After Singing Nazi Anthem at German Music Festival

Germany: Organisers at the on3 music festival have removed Peter Doherty from the stage mid-song after he used 'Deutschland, Deutschland ueber alles' in a set. He kept singing, ignoring the jeers of the crowd, until he was physically removed.

The opening verse from the Song of Germany isn't banned but is not generally used due to its association with Hitler and his Nazi regime. A public radio station was broadcasting live when Doherty's faux pas occurred.

Doherty is no stranger to controversy having used 'Arbeit macht frei' - a slogan taken from the gates of a concentration camps run by the Nazis - as a song title. He has a history of drug use and has been jailed in the past.

http://www.news.com.au/entertainmen...ging-nazi-anthem/story-e6frfn09-1225805551087

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Yeah I saw this a while back.

I thought it was amusing how they are prosecuting someone just for singing a song, because they are against fascism. ;)
 
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Yeah I was about to say, most people outside Germany are not aware that that verse is taboo. (I wasn't.)
 
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The article said:
Doherty is no stranger to controversy having used 'Arbeit macht frei' - a slogan taken from the gates of a concentration camps run by the Nazis - as a song title.
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yes not a misleading out of context point at-all :rolleyes:

edit: although to be fair the source and the text don't seem to match so maybe they updated that..
 
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dmpoole said:
Oh wow, it did but guess what, nobody linked it until I did.
Aren't I clever?
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Calm down, I wasn't having a go.

I was surprised that this was the first time it had made it to the forum and was genuinely curious as to whether he'd done it a second time... I certainly wouldn't have put it past him.

EDIT: See, now that shankii guy is the one being a tool about "old news".
 
Doherty is no stranger to controversy having used 'Arbeit macht frei' - a slogan taken from the gates of a concentration camps run by the Nazis - as a song title. He has a history of drug use and has been jailed in the past.

http://www.news.com.au/entertainmen...ging-nazi-anthem/story-e6frfn09-1225805551087

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Massive error here.........., he may have used the quote but it had nothing to do with Hitlers Nazi party origionally.

Maybe he found the origional meaning and used it because of that.

The slogan was around in the 1870s, so it could have been taken from then.
 
moremoney said:
dmpoole said:
Doherty is no stranger to controversy having used 'Arbeit macht frei' - a slogan taken from the gates of a concentration camps run by the Nazis - as a song title. He has a history of drug use and has been jailed in the past.

http://www.news.com.au/entertainmen...ging-nazi-anthem/story-e6frfn09-1225805551087

Video at source
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Massive error here.........., he may have used the quote but it had nothing to do with Hitlers Nazi party origionally.

Maybe he found the origional meaning and used it because of that.

The slogan was around in the 1870s, so it could have been taken from then.
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The Libertines said:
Roll a gasper
The kaiser says he can stay alive
If he shovels
and burns his friends to die - even if you die
And on the gate read:
Arbeit Macht Frei

In her rollers
With a gasper
She scrubs the steps on a mean street
Where no policeman walks the beat

Her old man
He don't like blacks or queers
Yet he's proud we beat the nazis?
(How queer...)
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Also, original does not have the second "o" that you've put in it twice. Though maybe you just have fat fingers, given it's adjacent to the i.
 
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