D for the Win

Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com
Thu Aug 21 01:37:30 PDT 2014


On 8/20/2014 6:57 PM, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> Am 21.08.2014 00:02, schrieb anonymous:
>>
>> No, no, "Dlang Dlang Über Alles" is a take on "Deutschland
>> Deutschland über alles" (Germany Germany over everything), the
>> first verse of the national anthem as sung in Nazi times.
>>
>> I was actually worried if the author is German. He's not,
>> thankfully. He's from Israel. From a German author that would be
>> an embracement of fascism. Coming from an Israeli, I don't really
>> know where to put it, probably completely benign.
>
> As a Portuguese living in Germany, I would say not everyone knows that
> outside Germany.
>
> Specially the younger generations, they just use it because it sounds cool.
>

"Über Alles" always just makes me think of Hanzel und Gretyl: 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9Cber_Alles_%28album%29

Gotta love tongue-in-cheek psuedo-German metal ;)



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