"Edelweiss" (German for "noble white") is a show tune from the 1959 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The Sound of Music. It is named after the edelweiss, a white flower found high in the Alps (Leontopodium alpinum). The song was created for the 1959 Broadway production of The Sound of Music, as a song for the character Captain Georg von Trapp (originated by the performer Theodore Bikel). In the musical, Captain von Trapp and his family sing this song during the concert near the end of Act II, as a statement of Austrian patriotism in the face of the pressure put upon him to join the navy of Nazi Germany following the Anschluss (Nazi annexation of their homeland). It is also Captain von Trapp's subliminal goodbye to his beloved homeland, using the flower as a symbol of his loyalty to Austria. In the 1965 film adaptation, the song is also sung by the Captain earlier in the film when he rediscovers music with his children.
Is the White House full of Austrians or something?
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1 jaredschaffer27 2019-04-19
Is the White House full of Austrians or something?
1 Detective_Fallacy 2019-04-19
Bavarians or Austrians, same thing really.
1 Kellere31 2019-04-19
Bavarians or Austrians or Germans or Dutch, same thing really.
1 SpacemanSkiff 2019-04-19
This but unironically.
1 jaredschaffer27 2019-04-19
I have a hard time keeping track of all those postage stamp-sized countries in Euroville.
1 prince_of_prussia1 2019-04-19
Fucking high altitude cuck catholic g*rmans OUT OUT
1 loli_esports 2019-04-19
Austria is german degeneracy + getting cucked at every turn
1 employee10038080 2019-04-19
It's a anti-nazi song written by two Jews.
Apparently it's also the theme of man in the high castle
1 BumwineBaudelaire 2019-04-19
ya what was this broad going for here
1 redmako101 2019-04-19
Germans singing is automatically fash.
1 duckraul2 2019-04-19
Not sure if fascism but definitely a crime. Have you heard Germans sing? Should have stuck to the piano and orchestral music
1 prince_of_prussia1 2019-04-19
Erika is a good jingle tbh fam
1 JollyOllyManFatDick2 2019-04-19
Remember when Maggie Haberman had “Habers gonna Habe” in her twitter profile pic for three years like a fucking moron