First day in Rumble posting … Moonlight Serenade in 1944, by Glenn Miller’s Band of the Allied Expeditionary Forces (the A.E.F. Band ), announced by German speaking “Ilse Weinberger” (pseudonym for Gloria Wagner) in a Musik für die Wehrmacht (Music for the Wehrmacht) European radio propaganda broadcast. Remastered edition. First published in Moonlight Serenade War Radio 1944 by Major Glenn Miller’s A.E.F. Band & Ilse Weinberger | 20240203
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Moonlight Serenade in 1944, by Glenn Miller’s Band of the Allied Expeditionary Forces (the A.E.F. Band ), announced by German speaking “Ilse Weinberger” (pseudonym for Gloria Wagner) in a Musik für die Wehrmacht (Music for the Wehrmacht) European radio propaganda broadcast. Remastered edition.
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In the Mood | Major Glenn Miller’s Band | European Radio Propaganda 1944, Ilse Weinberger | 20240202 | Miracles•Media | @michelvanderburg | TakeNode 6d704373-eb94-4ce6-9436-941409dbd555
In 1940, the dutch teen idols Johnny and Jones, even though they were Jews, were able to continue performing under the Nazi occupation without too many problems.
The Amsterdam duo sang jazzy Dutch songs with a mock American accent and a parody of current events.
Blackout means black!
July 1940 Johnny and Jones sang a parody on the Blackout , the dutch song ‘Maak het donker in het donker’ (make it dark in the dark).
Later during World War 2, in 1943, they were deported to the Nazi death camps. They died of exhaustion in the last days of the war in 1945 (see Notes).
Still image in film : Poster for the single ‘Maak het donker in het donker’.
Lyrics ‘Maak het donker in het donker’ | Johnny and Jones (1940)
De overheid heeft het publiek bevolen
Als het donker is dan moet het donker zijn !
Er mag geen enkel licht naar buiten schijnen
Doe verduisteringspapier voor je gordijn
Anders staan ze ’s avonds aan je bel te bellen
En dan komt de luchtbescherming je vertellen :
Refrein:
Maak het donker, maak het donker in het donker
Ook al gaan de sterren door met hun geflonker
Ik loop langs de huizenkant
Met mijn luchtbeschermingsband
Een lantaren in mijn hand
Om te kijken waar iets brandt
Houdt dus rekening met de verduisteringswensen
Maak het donker, reuze donker beste mensen !
Refrein
Het blokhoofd van blok zeven uit wijk negen
Zag de dochter van het wijkhoofd uit blok tien
Met een rood hoofd kwam hij blokhoofd negen tegen,
Hij zei hoofd, heb jij het wijkhoofd ook gezien ?
Ik heb in het hoofd gezet het wijkhoofd te gaan vragen ,
Of die wijkhoofd-(griet/strike?) mijn blokhoofdnaam wil dragen : Refrein
Van Zanten zag een meisje in het duister,
Zij was slank gevormd en toch niet dik van lijn.
Hij dacht, dit is de jonkvrouw mijner dromen,
Binnenkort zal zij mevrouw Van Zanten zijn.
In de duisternis vroeg hij haar om een kusje,
Flip van Zanten zei zij toen, ik ben toch je zusje !
Refrein
Music : Maak het donker in het donker | Text & Music by Johnny and Jones (1940). Recorded in Vara-studio, Hilversum, 19 july 1940. DH2051. (Varagram 7175). | Wikimedia Commons
Film (image) : edited from Polygoon-Profilti cinema news reel week 36, September 1940 (under nazi rule) | Sound & Vision (Open Images).
Citation info : Blackout…Johnny and Jones 1940 | 20240118 | Miracles•Media | @michelvanderburg | TakeNode 17a685fd-9944-471b-992f-47be88ead857
Tulips of blooming life and survival in Holland | 20231103 | Miracles•Media | Screenshot (Arte.tv) from Aux Pays-Bas, les tulipes de la prospérité / In den Niederlanden: Blühender Wohlstand
Excellent, to see the video work Tulip Bulbs War Food Holland 1944-1945 (Ref. 1) helping the ARTE European public service channel broadcasting next week all over Europe an excellent documentary about the cultural legacy of tulips in Holland , featured in the daily French/German TV show ‘Invitation au Voyage / Stadt Land Kunst.’
The French (FR) edition ‘Aux Pays-Bas, les tulipes de la prospérité’ is broadcast on Arte Tuesday 7 Nov. 2023 at 17:20 , and 8 Nov. at 8:40. The German (DE) edition ‘In den Niederlanden: Blühender Wohlstand’ 7 Nov. 2023 at 13:25 and 8 Nov. at 08:10 .
The documentary is an Arte & Elephant Doc coproduction , directed by Anna-Gaëlle Brault. In collaboration with Victoria Dehaut, documentalist, researcher (Elephant Adventures).
ARTE is a channel specialized in culture and known for its quality documentaries.
Arte.tv is streaming the docu online from 31/10/2023 to 05/01/2024 (Ref. 2, 3)
Silent film — Towards the end of World War I – in the summer 1918 , after the Allies defeated the Germans in the Second Battle of the Marne – large groups of Belgians and French refugees flee in front of the retreating enemy force to the neutral Netherlands.
The Dutch army and Red Cross prepared to receive a possible 100,000 evacuees in the border towns in the south of the Netherlands.
After wandering weeks in the north of France , and next crossing Belgium on foot, the first group of French refugees arrived at the Dutch border October 20, completely exhausted.
At the gate in the electric wire fence at the border to the Netherlands – the so-called ‘Death Wire’ (dutch : Dodendraad ) Dutch soldiers took them over from German escorts.
Some refugees had travelled by tram part of the route crossing Belgium to the belgian border town Molenbeersel.
At the dutch border the refugees were welcomed and ladies from relief committees provide the refugees with food and drinks on the road to Stramproy in the Netherlands.
Within days , thousands of French refugees arrive in the village of Stramproy and are transferred to the city of Weert .
On arrival in the city center of Weert the dutch army registered people and handed out soup and bread.
The weak, the sick, and maternity women were cared for by the Red Cross and taken to an aid post for further care.
The refugees were sheltered the night in buildings like convents and schools in Weert, before being housed elsewhere in the country the following days.
References
Source (video footage) : Belgische vluchtelingen 1e Wereldoorlog. Open Images | Beeld & Geluid (Sound &Vision).
Weert en het einde van W.O.-I. | Jan Henkens | Stichting Historisch Onderzoek Weert | URL http://www.showeert.nl
Short impression of Viviane telling her story April 2023 in Boortmeerbeek, Belgium, at the 80th anniversary of the attack on Transport XX near Boortmeerbeek — the Twentieth Train heading for Auschwitz, the night of April 19-20, 1943. Viviane escaped from Transport XX in the womb of her pregnant mother Isabella Weinreb-Castegnier who jumped from this death train, with the help of Elias Gnazik, shortly after the 2nd attack on this train near Bierbeek, Belgium. Viviane was born 6 months later October 30, 1943 in Brussels … and celebrates her 80th birthday today, October 30, 2023, in LA, USA ;) Music : Al Kol Ele by Crescendo Boortmeerbeek Choir .
Full story available in free e-Book download :
Viviane Yarom-Castegnier & Michel van der Burg. Viviane’s Story: Escape from Transport XX… Born 6 Months Later [e-Book]. Boskoop, Miracles.Media, 2019. Distribution [ISBN (ePUB) : 978-94-93147-00-3 | ISBN (pdf) : 978-94-93147-01-0]. URL https://miracles.media/vivianesstory/
Citation : Viviane – 80 Years After Escape From Transport XX | 20231030 | Michel van der Burg | Miracles•Media | TakeNode 84175450-c147-4fd9-9039-8ca85995ff46
