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The German Nazi and rocket scientist Wernher von Braun became very popular with the US authorities after WW II and all his former Nazi sins disappeared under the American carpet. When von Braun was alive and working the Americans spent billions of dollars on things like sending humans into space, as if the problems on the planet we've already got wasn't enough.
The first eight bars is Lehrer playing the intro to "Deutschland Deutschland über alles". This was also the first Lehrer song published on this channel and the opening credits even spelled this von Braun guy's first name wrong. I'm sorry for that. The punishment should be that I won't ever be allowed into the US. The song itself is musical, it is satire and it is good fun.
Mr. Tom Lehrer did react to "The Tom Lehrer wisdom channel" on YouTube. He said that he is fine with the postings, as long as the performance is not altered and as long as it's free in the YouTube flash video format. Please do NOT ask for any video originals, ever again.
LINKS:
Buy the music here:
http://www.amazon.com/Tom-Lehrer/e/B000AQ1ECM
A Swedish Youtube user published an introduction to Lehrer, partly in Swedish and partly in English. It requires Adobe Acrobat Reader on your machine. Click here for the pdf document:
http://www2.sofi.su.se/~joj/docs/Lehrer_introduktion.pdf
The Tom Lehrer song index:
http://www.casualhacker.net/tom.lehrer/song_index.html
Graeme Cree's Tom Lehrer index:
http://members.aol.com/quentncree/lehrer/index.htm
MySpace tribute:
http://www.myspace.com/tomlehrertribute
Crazy College interview:
http://www.crazycollege.org/lehrer.html
SF Weekly interview:
http://www.sfweekly.com/2000-04-19/news/that-was-the-wit-that-was/1
Here is a "new" Tom Lehrer interview:
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/02/28/1046407753895.html
Gene Weingarten, Washington Post:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2008/02/05/DI2008020502027.html
Tags: Tom Lehrer Werner von Braun satire irony
Tags: Tom Lehrer Werner von Braun satire irony
