There’s no significance. It was written for the Sound of Music. Just because it’s the opening theme to Man in the High Castle doesn’t mean it’s an actual Nazi song.https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/1118886051962134528 …
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Well, and in the show it’s explicitly sung as a subversive anti-Nazi song. Though one could say it was sung to stoke nationalism, I guess, but ANTI-Nazi nationalism.
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And Rodgers and Hammerstein wrote it specifically for Theodore Bikel, who originated the role of Captain von Trapp on stage. Bikel was an Austrian Jew whose family fled Austria in 1938.
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Wasn’t it the national song of Austria in the story? Have any of these people who associate it with a “Nazi theme song” actually watched the Sound of Music? They should. It might make them better people (and less stupid).
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Yes, the whole point of the song and the scene, in the film, is that this was the thing of beauty being stomped out by the Nazis.
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