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Dear All,
I thank you all for your posts, which I read very carefully helping me to make up my mind.
I made some research in the Net about the group and found out, as well as Jim, that in the 70's they belonged rather to the left and had absolutelly nothing to to with Nazism. According to what I found out, they wanted to provoke with this title (which is the title of the album as well) regarding the situation in Italy with Nazism comming up again.
Learning that, I remembered a question a philosopher (don't ask me who) answered to the question: "What is art allowed to do?" He answered: "Everything".
As Music is art and the title of the piece belongs to it (I agree with Jim), everything is allowed (now a little exclusion from my side: if it doesn't harm anybody!!). So it can be offending!
The second issue I remembered was a word from Rosa Luxemburg, a german comunist, killed 1919 by soldier of the post-war regime of WW1, which said:"Your individual freedom ends where the individual freedom of the next of you begins!".
With the the title "Arbeit macht frei" I personally feel very shocked (specially on that day, although for sure it was a coincidence) because I have fear, that this title (without having anything to do with it) would encourage more stupid people to follow Nazi ideology (these people here in DE do not speak a word of English, or Italian or whatsoever..). Unfortunatelly here DE there is a little tendancy of Neonazis becomming a little stronger, nothing serious, nothing what a healthy democracy cannot handle, but their number is increasing.
Comming back to the first two issues, Art and personal freedom I have to state, that I was shocked, provacated and hurt, but not harmed, regarding the second, my personal freedom was not touched.
Although I still think, that, as well as the GY!BE title, are due to mislead, they should stay, but with everybody of us having the eyes wide open to what is happening and reacting when necessary (not like mostly all of the Germans did during the Nazi regime: closing the eyes and trying not to be aware of anything happening in their souroundings)
Lotus
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