![]() the Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz), liberalism and the Left. Most of their songs espouse an aggressively nationalist perspective of the world and are highly critical of the Federal Republic of Germany, its surveillance and censorship agencies (i.e. In it, he says that he "can still see the snipers lurking in the watchtowers" and at the end, he exclaims that he has been "sold out and betrayed by the fucking Democrats". ![]() The track "Verkauft und Verraten" (Sold Out and Betrayed) from Rock gegen Oben compares life in East Germany, where Regener was born, to life in modern Germany. The song "Rudolf Hess" from Rock gegen Oben glorifies Nazi Rudolf Hess as a martyr and, in "Sturmführer", Michael Regener, the band's leader, pays tribute to his grandfather, who was a Waffen Schutzstaffel (SS) officer. Their other albums include Republik der Strolche ( Republic of Rascals, 1995), Rock gegen Oben ( Rock against the Top 1997) and Ran an den Feind, ( Engage the Enemy, 2000), which includes a remake of the 1940 German military march "Bomben auf England", retitled "Bomben auf Israel". ![]() Shortly after its release, Landser played their only public concert, wearing masks. Landser's first major release was Das Reich kommt wieder ( The Reich Will Rise Again) in September 1992. In mid-1992, the band changed its name to Landser and started singing entirely in German. The music started taking a racist direction in late 1991, and in early 1992, the name "Endlösung" was applied to the band. Landser were formed in 1987 as an unnamed, non-political punk band playing songs in both German and English. The music is distributed online, by underground dealers through peer to peer networks or purchased from music labels in the United States and in some European countries where their music is legal (mostly in Eastern Europe and the United Kingdom). Landser had their CDs manufactured abroad, mainly in the United States, Canada and Eastern Europe. However, they held several private concerts in restaurants in Berlin, Germany. They performed only one concert that was open to the public, and did so wearing masks. The band, who are outlawed in Germany, were previously called Endlösung ( Final Solution), and were founded by members of the neo-Nazi group Die Vandalen - Ariogermanische Kampfgemeinschaft (The Vandals - Aryan Germanic Combat Association), which was founded in 1982 in the former German Democratic Republic. Landser is an old-fashioned German colloquialism for a low-ranking soldier. Landser ( ) were a German neo-Nazi rock band. ![]() East Berlin, German Democratic Republic (now Berlin, Germany) ![]()
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