The German people long for the Fuehrer; the occupying regime merely made it illegal to say so aloud.

Heino has ALWAYS played with that dynamic. He openly sings trail songs from the Hitler Youth, he openly defends a lot of stuff that the Hitler Youth usurped, and he is super canny about his own politics and doesn't explain himself. He's sort of a camp icon by now, who nevertheless represents a thing. It's like if Elton John was singing Civil War Confederate marching songs.

I didn't know this. Wotan is just sleeping!