Burn of the Day
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Not the first time Hollywood rattled the Nazis with music. When Victor Laslo orders the band to play La Marseillaise in Casablanca, we know we’ll win the war. Can’t wait for Buzzfeed to review that movie.
Did the author get told to write about The Sound of Music and watch the first 10 minutes? Then figured its the 1930s, so there should be something about Nazis?
The author could not have watched the entire movie.
When Victor Laslo orders the band to play La Marseillaise in Casablanca, we know we’ll win the war.
French refugees sang the song, lending authenticity to the fervor of their singing. The villainous Major Strasser was played by Conrad Veidt, a German film actor and German World War I combat veteran. He and his Jewish wife were also refugees from the Third Reich.
The author could not have watched the entire movie.
Another 27 year old who knows nothing.
The Trapp Family singers left Austria because Hitler wanted them to sing for his birthday. Same difference.
Yeah no Nazi references in The Sound Music- only plot climax.
Captain Von Trapp: “Herr Zeller, some of us prefer Austrian voices raised in song to ugly German threats.”
Hans Zeller: “I have just come from the house of Captain von Trapp. Incidentally, the only one in the neighborhood not flying the flag of the Third Reich since the Anschluss, but we have dealt with that situation.”
Marta: “Maybe the flag with the black spider on it makes people nervous.“
Herr Zeller: “Nothing in Austria has changed. Singing and music will show this to the world. Austria is the same. Heil Hitler.”
One of my all time favourites- to the point where I say the dialogue with the characters.
I suppose the next entry on the list was “1939’s Gone With the Wind largely leaves out what else was going on in Georgia in 1865”.
Baron von Trapp was a WW! U boat commander in the Austrian navy(don’t laugh the Austrian-Hungarian Empire extended to the Adriatic then). The Nazis tried to draft von Trapp but he refused to serve under HIlter and the family escaped to Vermont.
von Trapp was regarded as a national hero during the War due to the vessels he sank. He wrote a memoir of his service which is available in English. He was a career Navy man who saw his Navy vanish beneath him, He turned down three offers from the Third Reich of a u-boat command, although he knew that such refusals could risk a concentration camp. Von Trapp and his family escaped to Italy by train. He was able to claim Italian citizenship due to having been born in Trieste, now part of Italy. Two of his sons served in the US 10th Mountain Division during the war. A fascinating man who led a fascinating life.