I get what Jim Bainbridge is saying. I once heard a German folkie say why he wouldn't do old German material - "there is blood on those songs".

This is changing, a bit. There are German musicians who do the German equivalent of Playford, but it isn't exactly stadium-filling. Then there are the Teutonic-folk-rock types who use a lot of runic imagery and doomy electronics and shade into the fascist metal scene. And on the left there are the people who do fusions with the music of immigrant cultures like the Turks and Kurds. But nobody seems to be trying to defuse the connotations put on German folksong by the Nazis. I would like to be proved wrong.