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Barbara Gottingen French & English Subtitles

A simple heartfelt song that was more than a song-- it made history and changed history . It was a giant step towards restoring the peace between neighboring France and Germany after the bloody battles of WWII, more moving than any political speech. Recorded in 1964 on Barbara's album Le Mal de Vivre Gottingen: The song that made history by Stephen Evans The post-war reconciliation between France and Germany was enshrined in a treaty signed 50 years ago. But many believe a song recorded the following year did as much to thaw relations. Can there be many songs that really did change the world? There have certainly been records which have been immensely popular - and some of those have had a message. But did they really change the hearts and minds of ordinary people? Did they alter politics? There is one which did, and it's barely known now. Fifty years ago, Germany and France were neighbours where the scars of war were still raw. Germany had invaded France and been repulsed, inch by bloody inch and town by town. Germans were trying to come to terms not just with total defeat, but with how what they thought was their civilised country had perpetrated one of the great crimes of history. Barbara, the woman in black Born Monique Serf in Paris in 1930 the second child of a Jewish fur salesman family had to move several times during the German occupation and even fled one home after being denounced as Jews studied music in Paris and then moved to Brussels, where she first performed under the name of her maternal grandmother found considerable success in the 1960s and 70s always dressed in black on stage acted, directed and campaigned about HIV death in 1997 sparked outpouring of grief Into this minefield of potential resentment and painful rancour, stepped a slight, soft-voiced chanteuse. Barbara was her stage name - she had been born Monique Serf in Paris in 1930. She was Jewish and so a target for the Nazis. But, two decades after the end of the war, she travelled to the German city Goettingen, as near to the heart of Germany as you can get. She fell in love with the city and its people and recorded a paean of praise, first in French and then in German, the language of the former oppressor. She sang of "Herman, Peter, Helga et Hans". Who had they been, the listener wonders. Her friends? Her lovers? It captured the hearts of her German audience at the Goettingen theatre. It became a hit. A street was named after her. The city bestowed its Medal of Honour on her. The citation talks of the song and its "quiet, emphatic plea for understanding". The song's popularity, the citation says, "made an important contribution to Franco-German reconciliation". Thanks philipchek for refining the translation.