• FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    Swordgeek has already answered in a reply to a reply but it’s because Erika is the most popular marching song used by nazi germany… i don’t believe it originated in nazi germany, but rather earlier in germany’s history, since the melody was also used by finland.

    Those commenters will generally be people who were searching for the german march and found that instead. Or it had a shout-out on a RW instageam page for sharing the song title.

  • neidu3@sh.itjust.works
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    17 days ago

    I don’t know (pun intended, i am no coward; I intend my puns), but the juicebox emoji leaves no doubt when it comes to intent.

    I’ve never heard the song before so I was curious if the artist was Jewish or something, but I see no obvious cause why this artist or song in particular would attract that kind of fauna in the comment section. From what I can see she’s an Italian artist without much fame outside of this song.

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      17 days ago

      The only connection I could find was her name - Erika - which was the name of a Nazi marching song.

  • ɯᴉuoʇuɐ@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    17 days ago

    Going off QuinnyCoded’s comment, I’d speculate the song is used in some antisemitic meme TikTok video or something similar. Kind of like Little Dark Age getting associated with nazi Hyperborea fantasies.