In it, he says that he "can still see the snipers lurking in the watchtowers" and at the end, he exclaims that he has been "sold and betrayed by the fucking Democrats". The track "Verkauft und Verraten" (Sold and Betrayed) from Rock gegen Oben compares life in East Germany, where Regener was born, to life in modern Germany. The song "Rudolf Hess" from Rock gegen Oben glorifies Nazi Rudolf Hess as a martyr and, in "Sturmführer", Michael Regener, the band's leader, pays tribute to his grandfather, who was a Waffen Schutzstaffel (SS) officer. Their other albums include Republik der Strolche (Republic of Rascals, 1995), Rock gegen Oben (1997) and Ran an den Feind, (Engage the Enemy, 2000), which includes a remake of the 1940 German military march "Bomben auf England", retitled "Bomben auf Israel". Shortly after its release, Landser played their only public concert, wearing masks. Landser's first major release was Das Reich kommt wieder (The Reich Will Rise Again) in September 1992. In mid-1992, the band changed its name to Landser and started singing entirely in German. The music started taking a racist direction in late 1991, and in early 1992, the name "Endlosung" was applied to the band. Landser: was formed in 1991 as an unnamed, non-political punk band playing songs in both German and English.
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