JAIME PLANA sings the Nazi Tango in Paris, 1941

In Nazi-Berlin 1941 „Star of Rio" was a pretty watchable little film, even though it's hard to categorize it: mosty musical, it's all around La Jana. She was born as Henriette Margarethe Hiebel in Vienna, began her career at a child ballet for the Frankfurter Opera, and had later entrances in cabarets and revues where she continued appearing successfully as a dancer. She was a great hit in films, and it's really a pity that „Stern von Rio" is her last picture. During a Christmas tour in Germany in 1939 she caught pneumonia which led to her death at the age of 35. The premiere of the film took place exactly one week after her death, so naturally it was a huge hit in its morbid way.

In Paris, after the Invasion, this Nazi tango has been immediately translated and joyfully sung in public, as well as recorded... to become one of the acts of collaboration... impossible to understand in other parts of Europe, occupied by the Nazis: in Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Prague... to say nothing of Warsaw.

Recording:
ETOILE DE RIO -- W. Engel, J. Marietti / M. Cab -- JAIME PLANA (1941)

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Paris
• 1940s
• Nazi
• collaboration
• French
• tango
• chanson

[michaelwright999]

Now thats what I call music thankyou.

[genia106]

The melody is lovely. I wonder how it sounded with German lyrics. Forgive me for this next statement...."Hitler looks like a tourist. What a bizarre photo!"

[ReichssenderBerlin]

@genia106 Hitler WAS on tour, actually...

[bearcub410]

WHAT A WONDERFUL SONG AND HER VOICE IS BEAUTIFUL , VERY BITTER SWEET , BUT ALL I CAN THINK OF IS THE NAZI HUN KICKING IN DOORS AT NIGHT AND PULLING PEOPLE OUT OF BED TO TAKE THEM TO THEIR DEATH . THE SWINE , POOR PARIS VIVE LA FRANCE

[camille885]

Jaime Plana was a man! ;-)

He was born in 1905 in Spain, but he made his career in France. (You can see him on a photo on my channel)

[Rudipolt]

Jaime Plana very fine singin!

When was she Born?

She sounds almost like Marlene Dietrich!

Thanks for posting!

[panzermadame]

Very nice! Thank you

[KnockelII]

Cute performance.

Politically, allow me to state that neither George W. Bush nor Barack H. Obama were born at the time it was recorded.

[texas224]

Fuck Bush, Fuck Obama

[ashburnhouse]

The ghost of Ezra Pound?

[SLACKER614]

amerikan kapitalists and zionists are trying to destroy European kultur...shall we let them????

[SLACKER614]

Bravo!!!

5*!

Merci!