Kristallnaach

[2][3] In the summer of 1979, during a trip through Greece, only a few years after the country had rid itself of its military dictatorship, BAP's lead singer Wolfgang Niedecken worked on a set of lyrics about neo-fascism, choosing the November Pogrom as its theme.

[5][6] The motivation for the track was to raise awareness of the resurgence of right-wing populism in Europe and critique (West-) Germany's insufficient Vergangenheitsbewältigung of the Nazi period.

[9] But those who feel disturbed by anything that's "different" Swimming with the tide, the way they're supposed to Those to whom gays are criminals To whom foreigners are scum They need someone to seduce them When that happens, no cavalry's there to save the day, no Zorro will manage He merely pisses his Z in the snow

"In the 1990s, Niedecken drew on the themes of the third verse once again[10]—incendiary slogans, the public's feigned ignorance of assaults and the propagation of racist and sexist prejudices—when he contributed the eponymous song to the Arsch huh, Zäng ussenander!

In his book Catastrophic State Germany: National Socialism in Popular Songs of the Bundesrepublik, German cultural historian Ole Löding points out that the song's lyrics, aside from highlighting political activities in the right-wing spectrum, include a strong critique of the capitalist system, particularly in the two final verses, which suggest that the danger of the society's renewed fascistization arises from a submissive-aggressive personality structure of the German people.