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Prussian Blue is a white nationalist folk teen duo formed in early 2003 by Lynx Gaede and Lamb Gaede (pronounced gay-dee or in IPA, ), fraternal twin girls born June 30, 1992 and brought up in the United States.

The name of the group is derived from the 'Prussian Blue' color.

History

Lynx and Lamb Gaede first performed together by singing at a white nationalist festival called Eurofest in 2001. They began to learn to play instruments in 2002. In the same year they appeared on a VH1 special called "Inside Hate Rock". In 2003, they were featured in a Louis Theroux BBC documentary, entitled Louis and the Nazis, on anti-semitism and white supremacy in the United States.

They recorded and released a debut CD at the end of 2004 called Fragment of the Future (Resistance Records) which had both an acoustic folk-rock and a bubblegum pop sound. A year later, they recorded their second album, The Path We Chose, which has a more traditional rock sound including both acoustic and electric guitar. Most of the songs on the second album lack the racial and nationalist overtones of Fragment of the Future and are about more mainstream subject matter, like boys, crushes, and dating. On October 20, 2005, Prussian Blue was featured in a critical segment on ABC's Primetime A DVD, Blonde Hair Blue Eyes, featuring 3 music videos and some live performances, was released in 2005. The home-schooled duo toured the US in 2005. On August 22, 2006, they were again featured in a critical segment on ABC's Primetime.

Lamb, Lynx, and their mother April also appeared in a low-budget 2003 horror film called Dark Walker.

The duo moved with their mother and stepfather from Bakersfield, California to Kalispell, Montana in 2006 because Bakersfield was "not white enough." Some of their new neighbors do not welcome them; less than 10 residents of this city of almost 50,000 have passed out fliers warning of the duo's views, and signs proclaiming "No Hate Here" have appeared in very few of the town's windows. Some of the people who passed out fliers claim to have received threatening letters from out-of-state white power organizations. The Montana Human Rights Network has also planned a rally in Kalispell to protest what they call racism.

The Constitution of the United States guarantees that all citizens shall have the right to freedom of speech , however Montana Human Rights Network seeks to deny that right to what they term: "white supremacist groups." Hence, their attack on singing groups like "Prussian Blue." Although this may be un-Constitutional and anti-American behaviour, it is encouraged or tolerated by the extreme Left and the current and at least one former administration.

Ideology

The group has strong ties to the National Vanguard organization, a white nationalist group formed by disaffected former members of the National Alliance. Their ideology has been described as racist and white supremacist in nature by many organizations: . The Daily Telegraph reports that, on stage, the twins execute the Sieg Heil salutes.

According to ABC News, the girls were homeschooled by their mother, April Gaede, an activist and writer for the white nationalist organization National Vanguard. The twins' grandfather wears a swastika belt buckle, uses the Nazi symbol on his truck, and registered it as a cattle brand. The twins have a baby sister named Dresden Hale (born July 19, 2004), after the city in Germany.

They describe their ancestry as English and German. The band was named after the color Prussian blue, as a reference to the name of the blue residue left over by the use of Zyklon B, the poison the Nazis employed to kill millions of Jews and others in concentration camps during World War II. Although the duo have said that they think Prussian blue is "just a really pretty color," in an interview with viceland.com, they stated that it is also a reference to the claims made by many Holocaust deniers (generally regarded as misguided by historians, chemists, and others) that "(t)here is also the discussion of the lack of 'Prussian Blue' coloring (Zyklon B residue) in the so-called gas chambers in the concentration camps. We think it might make people question some of the inaccuracies of the Holocaust myth." During their ABC interview, the twins said they believe Adolf Hitler was a great man with good ideas, such as eugenic standards and incentives to improve the genetic quality of the German people, and marriage loans to help qualified German families begin upon a firm financial basis. In the interview, the twins described the Holocaust as being exaggerated.

They have recently been criticized for stipulating that goods they donated to Hurricane Katrina victims should go only to white people; "After a day of trying, the supplies ended up with few takers, dumped at a local shop that sells Confederate memorabilia." In the ABC Primetime segment referred to above, their representative can be seen going from house to house looking for someone willing to accept a donation of household supplies on a "whites only" basis without success; a white woman, at first incredulous that there would be such a stipulation, exclaims "Screw y'all!"

Lyrics and influences

Most of the songs on Prussian Blue's first album are covers of white nationalist songs. The majority of those were written by David Lane, Ian Stuart, and Ken McLellan. Two of Prussian Blue's songs on their first album are dedicated to famous Nazis and neo-Nazi activists such as Rudolf Hess and Robert Jay Mathews. One of those songs, which was written by Lamb, is "Sacrifice":

Rudolf Hess, man of Peace

He wouldn't give up and he wouldn't cease

Remember him and give a pause

Robert Mathews knew the Truth

He knew what he had to do

He set an example with Courage so bold

We'll never let that fire grow cold

Another song of theirs, "Gone With the Breeze," is dedicated to Robert Mathews. The cover songs the duo chose to include on their album invoke ideas like Valhalla and Vinland, taken from Norse mythology and sagas. Several of the songs, including "Victory Day," refer to a race war which the members of Prussian Blue believe to be coming soon.

The debut single for their second album, "The Stranger," is adapted from a poem by Rudyard Kipling which is popular with white supremacists and nationalists.

On their blog Prussian Blue recently released a cover of a song called "Ocean of Warriors" in mp3 format, dedicated to white participants in the 2005 Sydney, Australia race rioting.

In 2006, a compilation album was released through the NPD in Germany titled For The Fatherland.

Discography

• Fragment of the Future (2004)
• The Path We Chose (2005)
• For The Fatherland (2006)

References

Footnotes

1. ^ http://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/story?id=1231684&page=1.
2. ^ Elsworth, Catherine (2005-10-25). "Twin pop stars with angelic looks are new face of racism". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 2006-06-12. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
5. http://www.holocaust-history.org/auschwitz/chemistry/
7. nydailynews

External links

• Official Prussian Blue Site
• Prussian Blue Fans Frappr
• ABC News article
• New York Daily News article
• Tinymixtapes.com article
• Daily Telegraph article
• Interview with the National Vanguard, a white nationalist publication.
• Interview with GQ Magazine
• MP3 of a call to Inga Barks Show on KERN Newstalk 1410(Bakersfield) from Lamb Gaede
• Interview with April Gaede on White Wire about the custody battle.

Critical

• Southern Poverty Law Center on Prussian Blue
• Anti-Defamation League article
• NYU Journalism report on Teen People's decision not to feature Prussian Blue

• 1992 births
• American child singers
• People from Bakersfield
• California musical groups
• Fraternal twins
• 2000s music groups
• Girl groups
• Living people
• Sibling duos
• White nationalists
• Family musical groups