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After Wessel's death, he was officially credited with having composed the music as well as having written the lyrics for the "Horst Wessel Song". Between 1930 and 1933, however, German critics disputed this, pointing out that the melody had a long history. "How Great Thou Art" is a well-known hymn of Swedish origin [26] with a similar tune for ...
An alternative version suggests Hitler's missing testicle is displayed as a war trophy in the Royal Albert Hall. The author of the lyrics is unknown, though several claims have been made. The song first appeared among British soldiers in 1939 and was quickly taken up by Allied military and civilians.
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 kettledrum or stamping feet (e.g. of ...
The music for this song came from the Lied der Legion Condor ("Song of the Condor Legion"), whose lyrics and music were written by Wolfram Philipps and Christian Jährig, two Condor Legion pilots with the rank of Oberleutnant. The somber music has a minor character, and the song was "exposed to the accusation of being un-German, Russian or ...
A list of songs about Adolf Hitler. Pages in category "Songs about Adolf Hitler" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.
The "Panzerlied" ('Tank Song') is a Wehrmacht march of the Nazi era, sung primarily by the Panzerwaffe—the tank force of Nazi Germany during World War II.It is one of the best-known songs of the Wehrmacht and was popularised by the 1965 film Battle of the Bulge. [1]
"Tomorrow Belongs to Me" is a song from the 1966 Broadway musical Cabaret, and the 1972 film of the same name, sung primarily by a Nazi character. It was written and composed by two Jewish musicians – John Kander and Fred Ebb – as part of an avowedly anti-fascist work; the nationalist character of the song serves as a warning to the musical's characters of the rise of Nazism.
The song was performed the next year in the First International Workers Music Olympiad held in Strasbourg by a choir of 3,000 workers. [1] Its first record was printed in 1937, during the Spanish Civil War, performed by communist actor and singer Ernst Busch. [2] It was later published in Brecht's 1939 collection Svendborger Gedichte. [3]