"Edelweiss" was being played as we walked into the @WhiteHouse

[demmiblue]

“Edelweiss” was being played as we walked into the @WhiteHouse

Now they’re playing “When You Wish Upon a Star” (You get an AG like William Barr.)

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[MissB]

1. Oh if only this was an alternative reality.

If only.

[NewJeffCT]

3. The alternate reality show "The Man in the High Castle"

based on the book by Phillip K Dick starts each episode with Edelweiss

It's supposes a world where the Nazis and Japanese won World War 2 and have divided up a conquered America and world.

[Ilsa]

4. That's on my "to view" list. nt

[MissB]

7. Yep. That's exactly what I was referring to

Love that show.

[NewJeffCT]

11. I still have not watched Season 3

Season 1 already went beyond the book in places (NY was not a setting in the book, and the excellent Rufus Sewell character John Smith was not in the book, either)

[gldstwmn]

17. Great show!

[Sanity Claws]

2. Edelweiss?

I know it is a flower but it literally translates as Noble White. How appropriate for these guys!

I also know that it was the song in the Sound of Music that the Trapp Family sang at the concert before fleeing through the mountains to safety in Switzerland. Are the Trumps thinking of fleeing?

[Wounded Bear]

5. It was played in NAZI propaganda films...

showing Hitler at the alpine resort he lived in Berchtesgaden playing around with guests including fellow NAZIs, but also with children, dogs, etc in attempts to show his "human" side.

[Sanity Claws]

8. Are you sure?

I heard that the song was written for the Sound of Music.
I looked it up and learned that the flower itself was used as a symbol for the Nazis.

[Wounded Bear]

12. It shows up on a documentary I have...

World at War Episode 1 "A New Germany"

Perhaps they patched that over, but they looked a lot like period filmology.

Here:

I guess the children and dogs shots were from other clips.

[cbdo2007]

9. was this after The Sound of Music?

It was written for the play, with a different meaning than what they are using it for, so that is odd.

[MissB]

6. Yeah but it's also the theme song for Man In The High Castle

Which is an awesome show.

[woodsprite]

10. If Trump didn't know, you can bet your bottom dollar that Miller knew the significance. nt

[Wounded Bear]

13. Clarification...I've actually never seen Sound of Music...

I just know the Hitler references I posted above.

[Lionel Mandrake]

14. There are two songs about that flower.

The earlier song is "Adolf Hitlers Lieblingsblume ist die schlichte Edelweiss". In English, the title is: "Adolf Hitler's favorite flower is the simple edelweiss". The original (German) Nazis loved this song for a while, but later banned it as "degenerate".

The later song is "Edelweiss" from the sappy musical "The Sound of Music", which some call "The Sound of Mucus". IMHO there's only one good song from that musical, and this ain't it. (Hint: Coltrane made the good song his own.)

[MurrayDelph]

16. Agreed: "Eidelweiss" is a crappy song

It's bad enough when they rhyme "greet me" with "meet me,"

but unforgivable to rhyme "forever" with "forever."

[theophilus]

15. When is Stephen Miller's acapella performance of

"Tomorrow Belongs to Me". That will be good to ol' Trumpy, I'll bet.