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In spite of this admonition, at first speeches by Hitler and other propaganda dominated the radio airways. For the Mayday celebrations in 1934, 17 hours of speeches, songs, and marches were broadcast. [38] Over time, between 1932 and 1939 the amount of time given over to music gradually increased to 33%, and a full 87.5% of that was popular ...
Therefore, the best that can be understood about German Music during the war is the official Nazi government policy, the level of enforcement, and some notion of the diversity of other music listened to, but as the losers in the war German Music and Nazi songs from World War II has not been assigned the high heroic status of American and ...
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 ...
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 "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] It was composed by Oberleutnant Kurt Wiehle in 1933.
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The first line, "Deutschland, Deutschland über alles, über alles in der Welt" ('Germany, Germany above all, above all in the world'), was an appeal to the various German monarchs to give the creation of a united Germany a higher priority than the independence of their small states.
The music was composed by Hans Gansser in 1921. [1] The third stanza was usually excluded in the "Sturmlied" as it does not fit in the rhyme scheme of the first two stanzas. The phrase Deutschland erwache! ("Germany, awake!") was taken from this poem and came to be one of the most influential slogans of the NSDAP.