Many thanks to Hellequin GB for translating this article from Unser Mitteleuropa:

DDR 2.0: From “Chattanooga Choo Choo” to “L’Amour Toujours”

The older ones among us may still remember the “special train to Pankow.” To the tune of “Chattanooga Choo Choo,” Udo Lindenberg wrote and sang his mocking song about Erich Honecker.

Instead of “Pardon me, boy, is that the Chattanooga Choo Choo?” as in the original version in the 1941 film “Sun Valley Serenade”, the version by Glenn Miller and his orchestra, Lindenberg said “Excuse me, is that the special train to Pankow — I have to go there — just to East Berlin…” (see video, and here’s the original.)

The song was a secret hit in the DDR at the time and was therefore not allowed to be played. From a left-wing perspective, this is somehow understandable, since it was a mockery of the DDR leader Erich Honecker. Red bigwigs of today, such as Comrade Faeser, have also declared that mockers will feel the “full force of the state”.

The real scandalous parallel between the DDR and today’s Germany is the fact that not only was singing the “updated” lyrics banned, but also the original melody. Back then, in the DDR, a lyrics-free version of “Chattanooga Choo Choo” was not allowed to be played in discos and at dance events, just as “L’Amour Toujours” is not allowed at countless events in the freest Germany of all time. And that despite the fact that the Glen Miller version was over 40 years old at the time, and the composition by the Italian Gigi D’Agostino dates back to the previous millennium.

We do not have a “Reich Music Chamber” (RMK), like the National Socialist institution that was tasked with promoting music that conformed to the system or was acceptable to the Nazi system, while suppressing music that contradicted the desired attitude or cultural conception at the time, but the first step in that direction has been taken. We have always been told to “nip it in the bud”, but anyone who resists today is labelled “right-wing extremist”.

Afterword from the translator:

And interfering Interior Monster Nancy Faeser has been outraged that the video from the oh-so-enriching “haute culture” attack on Michael Stürzenberger on Friday has gone viral and that the visage of the perp has been shown and his right to privacy has been infringed upon. I guess a serious payout of taxpayers’ money, as compensation for this serious infringement of his human rights, is on the horizon for that jihadist. Just remember: that is something that comes from the selfsame government/ministry that has actively plastered the faces, names and addresses of those drunk kids on Sylt for singing “Germany for Germans, foreigners out”. I take it we all can clearly see where the priorities lie here, can’t we?