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The song begins with the line "Auf der Heide blüht ein kleines Blümelein" (On the heath a little flower blooms), the theme of a flower (Erika) bearing the name of a soldier's sweetheart. [2] After each line, and after each time the name "Erika" is sung, there is a three beat pause , which is filled by the timpani or stamping feet (e.g. of ...
"Ten German Bombers" is a children's song with the tune of "She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain".It has been adopted as a football chant by English football fans, and is sung mainly at football matches during international competitions, namely the UEFA Euros and FIFA World Cup, especially in games against Germany. [1]
The Big Game (German: Das große Spiel) is a 1942 German sports film directed by Robert A. Stemmle and starring René Deltgen, Gustav Knuth and Heinz Engelmann.It featured famous German footballers of the era.
Football came to Germany from the British Isles in 1873, ten years after the FA (The Football Association) was founded, and was initially played mainly by grammar school pupils. At that time, playing sport was a privilege of the upper classes, and in the gymnastics and sports clubs , sport was primarily understood to mean group exercises aimed ...
Panzerlied ("Tank song") was a German military march of the Wehrmacht armored troops (Panzerwaffe), composed in 1933. [16] The NSKK (Nationalsozialistisches Kraftfahrkorps) also made their own take on the Panzerlied, but with a different variation called the Panzerwagenlied ("Armored car song").
The first patriotic war song of WWII in the U.S. was "God Bless America," written by Irving Berlin for a World War I wartime revue, but it was withheld and later revised and used in World War II. [4] There were many other patriotic wartime songs during this time such as, " A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square " by Glenn Miller and "Arms for ...
There is a distinct possibility that the 48,000 fans expected at Sunday’s Chiefs-Dolphins game in Frankfurt, Germany could break out into song.. One song in particular. During last year’s ...
After World War II, the song (and the debate about Hitler's monorchism) remained in common parlance. [33] Its use in David Lean's 1957 film The Bridge on the River Kwai led to the Mitch Miller band recording a best-selling version under the title "The River Kwai March". In Lean's early conception of the film, Allied soldiers in a Japanese ...