It features the adventures of Schnappi, a very happy little Crocodile. The Council of Europe chose a German song, because Germans are world-famous for their humor. EU staff believe that Schnappi was originally created by a Wehrmacht officer as Sonderschnappgerät 2 (Ssg2) to disturb the British during World War II. Sonderschnappgerät 2 never saw action in the war and was just recently re-invented as the less-military sounding "Schnappi."