And there is another interesting fact: Rökk simply was in Germany, when the III Reich & war started but what about Bill Ramsay, Rudi Carell, Wehnke Myhrre, Vivi Bach, Chris Howland, Pierre Brice, Lex Barker, Lou van Burg and so many others who came to Germany to work here RIGHT after war, knowing many people in their audience were former Nazis? Let´s face the facts: artists work for money as teachers or carpenters do and they do it where they find jobs. in the US you go Hollywood, not Dallas.
@Briselange: Truman: Hiroshima and Nagasaki were warcrimes. You are absolutely right about Nanking: it was also a warcrime and may I remind you this is NOT forgotten an it was German John Rabe who defended Chinese people against German Japanese Allies because Rabe considered this a warcrime as do I. Japanese soldiers killed innocent people. Truman killed innocent people (NOT SOLDIERS) in Hiroshima and Nagasaki this was agains Geneva and Haag convention.And to make it clear:I love Stewart & Wayne
Marika Rökk was born in Hungary and after the glorious time of Hitler winning the elections, she went to Germany. I am proud that she was a straight supporter of National Socialism. So I am.
@taiken Sorry, but almost everything you said was false. German films were NOT shown in England during the war. As for Hollywood vs. UFA, Goebbels banned Hollywood films throughout occupied Europe even before US entry into the war because neither UFA nor any other Germna studio could compete effectively with films from Hollywood. The handful of truly popular German films, such as this one, were shameless copies of American
@donwert This is sheer crap......Hitler ordered two copies of Charlie Chaplain's THE LITTLE DICTATOR and laughed himself blue-in-the-face over it. People like you claim that Hitler banned swing and jazz in Germany back then too and that is absolutely false---there were many German swing bands during the '30s and wartime '40s.
But backbiting and condemning in a hateful manner while ignoring thruth and facts is more than different comments. It starts badness - like in 1919 when ‘Mr. Schiklgrubers son’ started and kept on going to backbite and condemn in a hateful manner. People said ‘why get upset about this nasty person’ and were badly surprised that in 1933 the hateful words changed Germany from a democracy to a Nazi dictatorship ending in a disaster with war and 20 Mill of death people
Why get upset over someone's comments just becaue they are different than yours? You're never going to wipe out ignorance, so why bother as long as that ignorance doesn't do any bodily harm to anyone. People are going to say nasty things about anyone.
If you blame Marika Rökk for having worked between 1933-45 in Germany, why do you not blame her for working in Germany after 1945? Do you also blame Fred Astaire and Jimmy Stewart for having danced and acted in a "democracy" which had the same racist laws regarding colored people and do you blame John Wayne for having worked in a country with a president Truman killing innocent people in Hiroshima? And do you blame Russian actors for having acted while Stalin was on top???
"with a president Truman killing innocent people in Hiroshima?"
Please, not again.
How can you consider this a crime, when the deeds of Japanese Forces in Nanking, Unit 731, Death March of Bataan remain unspoken of and denied, despite the obvious truth ?
disgusting filthy bitch...she was making movies for nazis dancing and singging in dark years of 1944 and 45 and before...people dying but the filthy bitch was happily singing...whore..how can you be so lame?
The US entered the war TWO years after it begun. Prior to the war and during the war, there were quotas against jewish immigration all over the world, in USA and Canada, just to name a few.
Many europeans countries were pro-german and many Ukrainians and Baltic people were nazis and even SS soldiers.
So there is no reason to point out this particular woman.
You shoud keep your energy and bitch on the US, who did NOTHING to prevent the Holocaust
@MarcoBocoure she didn't kill anyone. calm down. your hate is just as bad as hitlers lol.. 99.9% of germans did not kill a jew. there were a handfull at the camps who did , and most of the pop didn't even know what was going on. it was kept hidden. end of story. don't you have other groups of people more important to worry about right now anyway?
@MarcoBocoure Are you really sure to know the absolute thruth to backbite or condemn this lady ?
She was an immensely talented musical performer who could tap with the rhythm and vitality of her Hollywood counterpart Eleanor Powell and switch to balletic movements with the conviction of Cyd Charisse. Since 1924 on stage - years before hitler took place.
She did her job as an artist: To entertain. To make the population forget their sorrows and make their lifes a bit happier for a while.
@tanztreff1 what is that you dont get? i gave you an example...Marlene Dietriech ..she also started before nazi era but she left as soon as nazi took power! she did not want to be a part of what that bitch was more than happy to be a part of...simple...she is no one
@MarcoBocoure Sorry. Marlene Dietrich went to US to make career and money - 3 years before nazi era.
Von Sternberg, who was already established in Hollywood, cast the then-unknown Marlene Dietrich in Berlin. 'The Blue Angel' overnight made her an international star and brought her a 7years contract (febr. 1930) with the Paramount Pictures in the US (and as von Sternberg's lover).
Hitler was elected 3 years later (febr. 1933) and then changed Germany from a democracy to a Nazi dictatorship.
@MarcoBocoure In the same manner Eleanor Powell, Esther Williams, Cyd Charisse, Rita Hayworth and Judy Garland did the same job - they danced and played throughout the Second World war.
As well as Julie Andrews, Barbra Streisand, Leslie Caron, Vanessa Redgrave did their job during the Vietnam war.
Pretty much the same Marilyn Monroe, Debbie Reynolds and Leslie Caron did their job during the Korea war.
What kind of individuals are therefore this ladies in your opinion and in your ideology ?
@tanztreff1 only a blind can ask this sort of question....I see the difference between Marlene Dietriech and this bitch marika....u can't see that....yr problem.....that makes you a sad person....very sad if you dont see the difference...
@tanztreff1 u must be a retard! she was entertaining those who were killing milions of civilians! and she knew that! u don't care ok but don't justify this kind of behaviour...simple. go and argue with some one else
@MarcoBocoure "Everyone charged with a penal offense has the right to be presumed innocent ...” The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, article 11, states
@MarcoBocoure Real stupid comment. You should shock you about the real Nazis ... Marika Rokk was apolitical and did not Propagandfilme. After your Logig, each artist his job in a
Stop dictatorship. Would that be good for the people who live there? Sorry my english is bad
@MarcoBocoure That's true what you say. But in a dictatorship can not give each artist his work. That would be even worse for the people - right? In art you can bring veiled criticism expressed. If all true artists left the country and the criminals remain alone there is a dictatorship not end - I think
@bobinobaker in occupied Poland most Polish and Jewsish actors and singers did not ignored the Polish actors' boycott and did not worked in the Nazi-administred cabarets of Warsaw....they servived with honour!!!
@MarcoBocoure That's right. And that was admirable. But have worked against the terrible occupation. I thought the actors in their own country of dictatorship. They could not finish all their work and leave the country. If all the artists leave dictatorships in their countries and let the people with the criminals themselves - this is good for the dictators. Art can try something against the dictatorship slowly to oppose something. Not much in the beginning - but more and more then...
@bobinobaker so we agreed on something.... you made here a very intresting point....yes artists can fight with dictatorship in a way but for G-d sake not dancing half naked while millions are dying...don't you think so?
@MarcoBocoure half naked? I am thinking not so strict. There was a revue film. These films were also available in the U.S. or France. And because many people died in this evil war. The content of this film was not racist - that's the most important - I mean.
@MarcoBocoure Yeah, of course we did..if we didnt we would be Serbia today...get your facts straight..what does that has to do with anything...people are dying from hunger all over the world and your smiling..same thing.
@AnotherLake all yr post have no relevence to mine...are u just another frustrated YT user who comes on here and starts a fight....? just drop it mate makes no sense
@MarcoBocoure The newly deceased Russian journalist Arkady Wachsberg told me he had documents signed by NKVD general Avvakumov stating that she worked as an NKVD agent in Germany during the war. She died 90 years of age without ever commenting on this matter.
@MarcoBocoure You dislike Marika and you keep on blaming her. Obviously you do not know anything about her or dancing or dancers or artists and you are not interested in any facts. But you keep sticking to her site like you are in a fly-on-the-wall-position. So you are not interested in her - only in yourself. This is the way how persons in bad systems behave and react. Like those in 1933-45. Every bad word you said about her shows what a kind person you are - it hasn't anything to do with her.
That is one of the most bizarre dance numbers ever. She's great and of course the best part is at the end when she dances with the elderly librarian, who was so good he puts me in mind of Buddy Ebsen. Marika's an amazement.
Crazy take offs on black american dances such as the charleston and the lindy..no wonder our fine US fellas won the war - these guys couldn't get it half right. God bless all the African American service folks for their service in the great war, and all going forward..there isn't enough thanks we can give you. (Mom of 1-8 Cav boy..First Team all the way!!)
@19myself91 Das kann nicht sein...Wenn die Mehrheit des Publikum sie in den 50ger Jahren aus Prüderie abgelehnt hätte , gäbe es nicht so viele Filme in dieser Zeit von ihr , und sie hätte dann auch nicht bis Ende der 80ger Jahre noch erfolgreich auf allen deutschsprachigen Musical und Theaterbühnen gestanden.
In sofern ist Dein Kommentar völlig unlogisch . Oder ?
fine song Marika!
Aloha from Hawaii!
Rudipolt 1 month ago
And there is another interesting fact: Rökk simply was in Germany, when the III Reich & war started but what about Bill Ramsay, Rudi Carell, Wehnke Myhrre, Vivi Bach, Chris Howland, Pierre Brice, Lex Barker, Lou van Burg and so many others who came to Germany to work here RIGHT after war, knowing many people in their audience were former Nazis? Let´s face the facts: artists work for money as teachers or carpenters do and they do it where they find jobs. in the US you go Hollywood, not Dallas.
MrAlGator 1 month ago
Interesting stuff, a bit of a contrast
starview1 1 month ago
she probably made a nice rape victim for some soviet soldier...hehe
mishgun420 1 month ago
@Briselange: Truman: Hiroshima and Nagasaki were warcrimes. You are absolutely right about Nanking: it was also a warcrime and may I remind you this is NOT forgotten an it was German John Rabe who defended Chinese people against German Japanese Allies because Rabe considered this a warcrime as do I. Japanese soldiers killed innocent people. Truman killed innocent people (NOT SOLDIERS) in Hiroshima and Nagasaki this was agains Geneva and Haag convention.And to make it clear:I love Stewart & Wayne
MrAlGator 2 months ago
@MrAlGator Thanks for pointing out the way John Rabe (a member of the NS) saved the lives of tens of thousands of Chinese during the Rape in 1937.
dasUBootVII 1 month ago
Marika Rökk was born in Hungary and after the glorious time of Hitler winning the elections, she went to Germany. I am proud that she was a straight supporter of National Socialism. So I am.
tiborvivi 2 months ago
@taiken Sorry, but almost everything you said was false. German films were NOT shown in England during the war. As for Hollywood vs. UFA, Goebbels banned Hollywood films throughout occupied Europe even before US entry into the war because neither UFA nor any other Germna studio could compete effectively with films from Hollywood. The handful of truly popular German films, such as this one, were shameless copies of American
Busby Berkeley-types films.
donwert 3 months ago
@donwert This is sheer crap......Hitler ordered two copies of Charlie Chaplain's THE LITTLE DICTATOR and laughed himself blue-in-the-face over it. People like you claim that Hitler banned swing and jazz in Germany back then too and that is absolutely false---there were many German swing bands during the '30s and wartime '40s.
dasUBootVII 1 month ago
It seems that hate speech is allowed only against Germans. What should the girl do? To convert and leave Germany?
wanderley1968 4 months ago
At first sight you're right.
But backbiting and condemning in a hateful manner while ignoring thruth and facts is more than different comments. It starts badness - like in 1919 when ‘Mr. Schiklgrubers son’ started and kept on going to backbite and condemn in a hateful manner. People said ‘why get upset about this nasty person’ and were badly surprised that in 1933 the hateful words changed Germany from a democracy to a Nazi dictatorship ending in a disaster with war and 20 Mill of death people
tanztreff1 6 months ago
Why get upset over someone's comments just becaue they are different than yours? You're never going to wipe out ignorance, so why bother as long as that ignorance doesn't do any bodily harm to anyone. People are going to say nasty things about anyone.
Handiman544 6 months ago
The german language aside; this film could have played to contemporary audiences in the United States.
granddad2002 6 months ago
If you blame Marika Rökk for having worked between 1933-45 in Germany, why do you not blame her for working in Germany after 1945? Do you also blame Fred Astaire and Jimmy Stewart for having danced and acted in a "democracy" which had the same racist laws regarding colored people and do you blame John Wayne for having worked in a country with a president Truman killing innocent people in Hiroshima? And do you blame Russian actors for having acted while Stalin was on top???
MrAlGator 7 months ago 13
@MrAlGator
"with a president Truman killing innocent people in Hiroshima?"
Please, not again.
How can you consider this a crime, when the deeds of Japanese Forces in Nanking, Unit 731, Death March of Bataan remain unspoken of and denied, despite the obvious truth ?
Briselance 2 months ago 2
lol 3:25 i guess abe lincon didnt die, but just moved to germany
omega1144 7 months ago
das ist (a sexy lady...bad german;)
patoman881 8 months ago
@taiken people made those governments....
MarcoBocoure 8 months ago
Marika Rokk - (3 Nov 1913 - 16 May 2004)
I really enjoyed this - Great - love her singing. Good color.
tebaldicallas 8 months ago
Top drawer!
fluffsryan 8 months ago
disgusting filthy bitch...she was making movies for nazis dancing and singging in dark years of 1944 and 45 and before...people dying but the filthy bitch was happily singing...whore..how can you be so lame?
MarcoBocoure 9 months ago
@MarcoBocoure Don't be so naive.
The US entered the war TWO years after it begun. Prior to the war and during the war, there were quotas against jewish immigration all over the world, in USA and Canada, just to name a few.
Many europeans countries were pro-german and many Ukrainians and Baltic people were nazis and even SS soldiers.
So there is no reason to point out this particular woman.
You shoud keep your energy and bitch on the US, who did NOTHING to prevent the Holocaust
mrktyb 9 months ago
@mrktyb I do agree with You but still we must not honour such individuals like this filthy bitch....s...he disgusts me....
MarcoBocoure 9 months ago
@MarcoBocoure she didn't kill anyone. calm down. your hate is just as bad as hitlers lol.. 99.9% of germans did not kill a jew. there were a handfull at the camps who did , and most of the pop didn't even know what was going on. it was kept hidden. end of story. don't you have other groups of people more important to worry about right now anyway?
csandersen 9 months ago 4
@csandersen Thanks a lot.
tanztreff1 9 months ago
@MarcoBocoure Are you really sure to know the absolute thruth to backbite or condemn this lady ?
She was an immensely talented musical performer who could tap with the rhythm and vitality of her Hollywood counterpart Eleanor Powell and switch to balletic movements with the conviction of Cyd Charisse. Since 1924 on stage - years before hitler took place.
She did her job as an artist: To entertain. To make the population forget their sorrows and make their lifes a bit happier for a while.
tanztreff1 9 months ago
@tanztreff1 what is that you dont get? i gave you an example...Marlene Dietriech ..she also started before nazi era but she left as soon as nazi took power! she did not want to be a part of what that bitch was more than happy to be a part of...simple...she is no one
MarcoBocoure 9 months ago
@MarcoBocoure Sorry. Marlene Dietrich went to US to make career and money - 3 years before nazi era.
Von Sternberg, who was already established in Hollywood, cast the then-unknown Marlene Dietrich in Berlin. 'The Blue Angel' overnight made her an international star and brought her a 7years contract (febr. 1930) with the Paramount Pictures in the US (and as von Sternberg's lover).
Hitler was elected 3 years later (febr. 1933) and then changed Germany from a democracy to a Nazi dictatorship.
tanztreff1 9 months ago
@MarcoBocoure In the same manner Eleanor Powell, Esther Williams, Cyd Charisse, Rita Hayworth and Judy Garland did the same job - they danced and played throughout the Second World war.
As well as Julie Andrews, Barbra Streisand, Leslie Caron, Vanessa Redgrave did their job during the Vietnam war.
Pretty much the same Marilyn Monroe, Debbie Reynolds and Leslie Caron did their job during the Korea war.
What kind of individuals are therefore this ladies in your opinion and in your ideology ?
tanztreff1 9 months ago
@tanztreff1 only a blind can ask this sort of question....I see the difference between Marlene Dietriech and this bitch marika....u can't see that....yr problem.....that makes you a sad person....very sad if you dont see the difference...
MarcoBocoure 9 months ago
@MarcoBocoure Oh - you know her personally and know the absolute thruth about her. Very interesting.
tanztreff1 9 months ago
@tanztreff1 u must be a retard! she was entertaining those who were killing milions of civilians! and she knew that! u don't care ok but don't justify this kind of behaviour...simple. go and argue with some one else
MarcoBocoure 9 months ago
@MarcoBocoure "Everyone charged with a penal offense has the right to be presumed innocent ...” The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, article 11, states
tanztreff1 9 months ago
@MarcoBocoure Real stupid comment. You should shock you about the real Nazis ... Marika Rokk was apolitical and did not Propagandfilme. After your Logig, each artist his job in a
Stop dictatorship. Would that be good for the people who live there? Sorry my english is bad
bobinobaker 8 months ago
@bobinobaker no one could be apolitical in those times....
MarcoBocoure 8 months ago
@MarcoBocoure That's true what you say. But in a dictatorship can not give each artist his work. That would be even worse for the people - right? In art you can bring veiled criticism expressed. If all true artists left the country and the criminals remain alone there is a dictatorship not end - I think
bobinobaker 8 months ago
@bobinobaker in occupied Poland most Polish and Jewsish actors and singers did not ignored the Polish actors' boycott and did not worked in the Nazi-administred cabarets of Warsaw....they servived with honour!!!
MarcoBocoure 8 months ago
@MarcoBocoure That's right. And that was admirable. But have worked against the terrible occupation. I thought the actors in their own country of dictatorship. They could not finish all their work and leave the country. If all the artists leave dictatorships in their countries and let the people with the criminals themselves - this is good for the dictators. Art can try something against the dictatorship slowly to oppose something. Not much in the beginning - but more and more then...
bobinobaker 8 months ago
@bobinobaker so we agreed on something.... you made here a very intresting point....yes artists can fight with dictatorship in a way but for G-d sake not dancing half naked while millions are dying...don't you think so?
MarcoBocoure 8 months ago
@MarcoBocoure half naked? I am thinking not so strict. There was a revue film. These films were also available in the U.S. or France. And because many people died in this evil war. The content of this film was not racist - that's the most important - I mean.
bobinobaker 8 months ago
@bobinobaker well she is well disgusting cannot say anything else....Marlene Dietrich did the right hing to do....
MarcoBocoure 8 months ago
@MarcoBocoure = stupid comment from someone who certainly doesn't know much about history ! She was censored in Berlin during nazi regime. Heraus !
lepivert 8 months ago
@lepivert oh really? yes still dancing on tables in some other places?
MarcoBocoure 8 months ago
@MarcoBocoure And people dont die today?..idiot, there are more deaths and wars today then at those times.
AnotherLake 8 months ago
@AnotherLake hehehe well yr country was colaborating with hitler.....small woner that u post this sort of comment,
MarcoBocoure 8 months ago
@MarcoBocoure Yeah, of course we did..if we didnt we would be Serbia today...get your facts straight..what does that has to do with anything...people are dying from hunger all over the world and your smiling..same thing.
AnotherLake 8 months ago
@AnotherLake all yr post have no relevence to mine...are u just another frustrated YT user who comes on here and starts a fight....? just drop it mate makes no sense
MarcoBocoure 8 months ago
@MarcoBocoure The newly deceased Russian journalist Arkady Wachsberg told me he had documents signed by NKVD general Avvakumov stating that she worked as an NKVD agent in Germany during the war. She died 90 years of age without ever commenting on this matter.
Brasjov 8 months ago
@Brasjov she would prob work for anyone.... such ppl have no spine....small wonde she said nothing about it as nothing to be proud of!
MarcoBocoure 8 months ago
@MarcoBocoure You dislike Marika and you keep on blaming her. Obviously you do not know anything about her or dancing or dancers or artists and you are not interested in any facts. But you keep sticking to her site like you are in a fly-on-the-wall-position. So you are not interested in her - only in yourself. This is the way how persons in bad systems behave and react. Like those in 1933-45. Every bad word you said about her shows what a kind person you are - it hasn't anything to do with her.
tanztreff1 8 months ago
@tanztreff1 if i say that filth is filth it does not show who I am....she is filth and I will reapt that!!!
case is closed! dirty filthy marika nazi whore....
MarcoBocoure 8 months ago
You know, that totally beats almost freezing solid, starving and getting shot at night and day on the eastern front.
Let's see, dance on stage, pick up a beautiful, happy woman, spin her around, set her down and then dance some more. That totally works for me!
AppleSouffle 10 months ago
It is quite similar in style and quality to American musicals of this period 1946-1956, whether you hate those or love them.
tryggda 11 months ago 2
que mujer tan bella! beautiful!
VAIP1988 11 months ago
Holy crap this stuff is corny!! Even Hitler would have cringed.
MrGoblin60 11 months ago
it´s springtime for Hitler ....-D
CapitanoGUC 1 year ago
That is one of the most bizarre dance numbers ever. She's great and of course the best part is at the end when she dances with the elderly librarian, who was so good he puts me in mind of Buddy Ebsen. Marika's an amazement.
Onlymusical 1 year ago
make sure you watch to the end. It's a wonderful clip.
Composerland 1 year ago
MEIN GOTT!!!!!
MrPearlJack 1 year ago
WTF
MrPearlJack 1 year ago
Amazing!
UkrainianHistVideo 1 year ago
fine Song Marika!
Thanks for Posting!
Aloha From Hawaii!
Rudipolt 1 year ago
Hungary rullē!
strauja 1 year ago 2
I like it when the nerdy german librarian women twirl and transform into glamorous showgirls ... like Nazi Wonder Women.
spider9137 1 year ago
@spider9137 dumbass
TheReggaeSummer 1 year ago
funny :)
14Loewenherz84 2 years ago
Crazy take offs on black american dances such as the charleston and the lindy..no wonder our fine US fellas won the war - these guys couldn't get it half right. God bless all the African American service folks for their service in the great war, and all going forward..there isn't enough thanks we can give you. (Mom of 1-8 Cav boy..First Team all the way!!)
mara235 2 years ago
Fred and Gnger, but with a welcome bit of humor.!
freereeder 2 years ago
I wonder if he knew a squirrel had died on his chin?
Direness 2 years ago
I bet Marika could make Der Fuhrer`s toes curl! Very lovely and lively.
TheWhitehall 2 years ago
wonderful wooooooooooow
MrPaker20 2 years ago
At that time at all the feet were thick
demigons1 2 years ago
made in hungary Rökk Marika Ö a Miénk Magyaroké
tigro024 2 years ago 5
Die Marika hatte so was Unbeschwertes...wirklich erfrischend!
stammystoned 2 years ago 3
In den 50ern müssen sie die gehasst haben, mit ihren entblößten Beinen ;)
19myself91 2 years ago
@19myself91 Das kann nicht sein...Wenn die Mehrheit des Publikum sie in den 50ger Jahren aus Prüderie abgelehnt hätte , gäbe es nicht so viele Filme in dieser Zeit von ihr , und sie hätte dann auch nicht bis Ende der 80ger Jahre noch erfolgreich auf allen deutschsprachigen Musical und Theaterbühnen gestanden.
In sofern ist Dein Kommentar völlig unlogisch . Oder ?
bobinobaker 8 months ago 2
wundrschoene actrise!
raganite 3 years ago 3
I can envision Mitzi Gaynor
im2tight2 3 years ago
tenperamento da vida bravo..
meganemoss 4 years ago 2
This comment has received too many negative votes show
wish her shoes had the pretty metal taps on them i can see
DanceTaps 4 years ago
i don't think that your comment deserved to be spammed
BOREWAR0758 3 years ago
Danke für das Video, habe den Film noch nie gesehen, hoffentlich kommt er mal als DVD auf den Markt.
Leotaurus1975 4 years ago