Ami - go home!
The sign You are entering the French sector (left) has been painted over
Ami - go home! (similar: Yankee go home ; English “go home!” for “go home!”) was a slogan or political catchphrase that was widespread after the Second World War , particularly in the Western European sphere of influence and the countries of the Eastern Bloc , which opposed the presence of the US -Directs armed forces in a country. In Germany, the slogan became known in the early stages of the Cold War through a song of the same name by Ernst Busch (to the melody of Tramp! Tramp! Tramp ! , arranged by Hanns Eisler ); he was also found on early GDR propaganda posters.
history
As early as 1950, various European communist parties and their supporters had used the slogan against the presence of US soldiers: In 1951, for example, "Troops of the SED and FDJ " had banners and adhesive strips with the slogan "Ami go home!" On West Berlin train stations. appropriate. However, these were declared "unlawful to the police " by the West Berlin police chief . In addition, the slogan Yankee go home appeared above all in countries in which a strong political left opposed the US military presence within the framework of NATO , such as in France (until 1966) or Italy.
In the 1960s, the slogan was used by the extra-parliamentary opposition in response to the Vietnam War and remained relevant during the peace movement in the 1970s. After that, it increasingly disappeared from public perception, but with an ironic undertone it went into common usage. The Iraq war gave the slogan new popularity in political demands from 2003.
The slogan in the film
In Billy Wilder's film " Eins, Zwei, Drei " - which takes place in divided Berlin shortly before the construction of the Berlin Wall - the modified slogan "Yankee go home" is written on balloons. Reason given by the writer, who comes from the American southern states in the film, where the term “ Yankee ” is used for Americans from northern states: “It doesn't say 'Ami go home', but 'Yankee go home', and she likes but nobody! "
In the Monty Python film “ The Life of Brian ” the slogan is parodied: In one scene, a wall with the Latin slogan “ Romani ite domum ” (“Romans go home” ) is parodied. painted.
A variation - namely "Ami, go to the devil!" - can be found in " Apocalypse Now " at the Do-Lung bridge.
The slogan in literature
A selection of writings in German with the words "Ami go home" in the title:
- Office for information of the government of the GDR (ed.): Ami go home. Why the Americans should go home (= The Truth for the People, Issue 7), Deutscher Zentralverlag, Berlin, 1950
- Ernst Busch , Hanns Eisler : Ami - go home! (Ernst Busch (Hrsg.): Friedenslieder. Book 2 ), Verlag Lied der Zeit, Berlin undated [1952]
- James Wakefield Burke: Ami go home. A novel from our days , Amsel, Berlin 1954
- Reinhard Federmann : Americans go home. Piece in 25 scenes [reproduced as an unmarketable manuscript], Sessler, Pfarrkirchen, Munich undated [around 1983]
- Rolf Winter : Ami go home: Plea for parting with a violent country , Rasch and Röhring, Hamburg 1989, ISBN 3-89136-288-9
- Ingrid Bauer : Welcome Ami go home, the American occupation in Salzburg 1945–1955; Memory landscapes from an oral history project , Pustet, Salzburg 1998, ISBN 3-7025-0371-4 (= reading books on the history of Salzburg , volume 6).
- Wilhelm Langthaler, Werner Pirker: Ami go home. Twelve good reasons for anti-Americanism , Promedia Vienna 2003 ISBN 978-3-85371-204-7
Single receipts
- ^ Mathilde Vaerting (ed.): Journal for State Sociology . Themis-Verlag, 1960 ( online ).
- ^ Austrian monthly journals . Österreichischer Verlag, 1953 ( online ).
- ↑ Ami, go home! Text by Ernst Busch and a link to the song
- ↑ http://www.dhm.de/sammlungen/plakate/p94_874.html
- ↑ addition . In: Der Spiegel . No. 18 , 1950 ( online ).
- ↑ Buried in the S-Bahn shaft . In: Der Spiegel . No. 10 , 1951 ( online ).
- ↑ cf. z. B. "Ami go home" (article on US students at UK universities), Spiegel Online, April 12, 2002
- ↑ Avez-vous Bourbon? In: geocities.com. Archived from the original on May 17, 2005 ; accessed on January 6, 2015 .