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Where its placement seems as bizarre as in the anecdote about Reagan playing it for an Austrian official mentioned in the article. Unless the makers are implyin
by jhbadger 10y ago
Where its placement seems as bizarre as in the anecdote about Reagan playing it for an Austrian official mentioned in the article. Unless the makers are implying that Edelweiss is a genuine folksong in the "High Castle" universe.
- cpr 10y agoSee iak8god's comment above debunking that cheap shot.
- clock_tower 10y agoEmbarrassingly enough, I always thought "Eidelweiss" was a show-tune arrangement of a real folksong... It sounds like I'm in good company. :P
- shoover 10y agoAll the more credit to Rodgers and Hammerstein.
- coldtea 10y agoActually it makes perfect sense. It has the nazi connotations (Edelweiss being a Germanic name for flower that grows in the German speaking countries --including Germany--, and being modeled after Austrian/German folksongs, the lyric "Bless my homeland forever", the impassionate delivery, etc) and the anti-nazi connotations (from its function in The Sound of Music). Here's an article examining it in this context: http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/11/edelweiss-an-american-song-for-an-american-dystopia/417285/ http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/11/ede...
- clock_tower 10y agoAlso, the eidelweiss flower is the traditional insignia of German and Austrian mountain infantry -- so it does have a symbolic role in the Germanies.