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1977 also saw the debut album from Hamburg's Big Balls and the Great White Idiot, arguably West Germany's first punk band.

Other early German punk acts included the Fred Banana Combo and Pack.

Bands primarily inspired by British punk sparked what became known as the Neue Deutsche Welle ( NDW ) movement.

Vanguard NDW acts such as the Nina Hagen Band and S. Y. P. H.

featured strident vocals and an emphasis on provocation.

Before turning in a mainstream direction in the 1980s, NDW attracted a politically conscious and diverse audience, including both participants of the left-wing alternative scene and neo-Nazi skinheads.

These opposing factions were mutually attracted by a view of punk rock as " politically as well as musically ...' against the system '.