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The Kingdom of Poland (Polish: Królestwo Polskie, German: Königreich Polen), also known informally as the Regency Kingdom of Poland (Polish: Królestwo Regencyjne), was a short-lived polity that was proclaimed during World War I by the German Empire and Austria-Hungary on 5 November 1916 on the territories of formerly Russian-ruled Congress Poland held by the Central Powers as the Government ...
The song was popular with members of Polish socialist and agrarian movements and became an anthem of the Polish People's Army during World War II. Warszawianka (The Song of Warsaw or Whirlwinds of Danger, 1905) A revolutionary song written in 1879 by socialist Wacław Święcicki imprisoned in the Warsaw Citadel.
One of the jokes at the time was that the song's title is changed to "Heil Dir im Sonderzug" ("Hail to Thee in Thy Royal Train"), owing to Wilhelm II's frequent travels. After the beginning of World War I in 1914, Hugo Kaun set the text of the anthem to new music to remove the similarity to "God Save the King".
The third stanza (which begins with "Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit") is sung to the same melody, and is the present national anthem of Germany and formerly of West Germany. The first verse of Fallersleben's poem was formerly the national anthem of the Weimar Republic , [ 16 ] and later, Nazi Germany .
The Battle Song of Liberty; Before I Grew Up to Love You; Belgium Put the Kibosh on the Kaiser; The Bells of Hell Go Ting-a-ling-a-ling; Berlin Bound; Billy McFadzean (song) Black Jack March; Bless 'Em All; The Blue Flag; Break the News to Mother; Bring Back My Daddy to Me; Bring Back My Soldier Boy to Me; Bring Me a Letter from My Old Home Town
Flag of the Second Polish Republic and the Polish People's Republic: 1927–1980 1918-1919: Banner of the Greater Poland uprising (1918–1919) There were many variants during the uprising but later this particular version became a dominant commemorating symbol. 1863–1864: The vision of the flag of Polish National Government (January Uprising)
In 1916, attempting to increase Polish support for the Central Powers and to raise a Polish army, the German and Austrian emperors declared that a new state called the Kingdom of Poland would be created. The new Kingdom in reality was to be a puppet regime under military, economical and political control by the German Reich.
' Imperial War Flag ') refers to several war flags and war ensigns used by the German armed forces in history. A total of eight different designs were used in 1848–1849 and between 1867–1871 and 1945. Today the term refers usually to the flag from 1867–1871 to 1918, the war flag of Imperial Germany.