"Birkenau itself is a group of separate camps, each of which is designated by a letter of the alphabet: Lager A, Lager B, Lager C, etc. There are two Lagers for women, or Frauenläger"
-Birkenau: The Camp of Death
Book by Marco Nahon, Jacqueline Havaux Bowers, Steven Bowman; University of Alabama, 1989
Birkenau was a nazi death camp during WWII, that had a section where women were kept. Rasputina is singing from the point of view of a person exempt from these camps but still sees whats happening inside and questions the fairness.
"With berries in aprons" - they ate all they could find which were mostly berries
this song makes infinatly more sense when one understands the references to nazi germany
"Birkenau itself is a group of separate camps, each of which is designated by a letter of the alphabet: Lager A, Lager B, Lager C, etc. There are two Lagers for women, or Frauenläger" -Birkenau: The Camp of Death Book by Marco Nahon, Jacqueline Havaux Bowers, Steven Bowman; University of Alabama, 1989 Birkenau was a nazi death camp during WWII, that had a section where women were kept. Rasputina is singing from the point of view of a person exempt from these camps but still sees whats happening inside and questions the fairness. "With berries in aprons" - they ate all they could find which were mostly berries this song makes infinatly more sense when one understands the references to nazi germany