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The song became very popular after the 1914 Battle of Langemarck during World War I, when, supposedly, several German regiments, consisting mostly of students no older than 20, attacked the British lines on the Western front while singing the song, suffering heavy casualties. They are buried in the Langemark German war cemetery in Belgium. [7]
The song was popularized among German fighters in Spain by singer and International Brigades member Ernst Busch and later became something of an unofficial anthem of the GDR. [3] Busch's recording of the song was later popularized in North America after it was released as a track on the three-record set, "Six Songs for Democracy" by Keynote ...
During and after the defeat of Napoleon during the Wars of Liberation, German patriotism flourished and spurred the production of poems, plays, and songs exalting the nation. Among these German artists who contributed to the glorification of their country was Friedrich Treitschke .
The most famous song of that name, besides Klopstock′s version, is, however, Ernst Moritz Arndt′s ″ Der Gott, der Eisen wachsen ließ ″ (The God who made iron grow), a patriotic anthem written during the Wars of Liberation against Napoleonic France. In the poem he incites his fellow countrymen to fight against the French invaders, and ...
" O Deutschland hoch in Ehren" is a patriotic German song written by Ludwig Bauer (1832–1910) in 1859 and set to music by Henry Hugh Pierson. The song was, besides the " Deutschlandlied ", " Die Wacht am Rhein " and " Des Deutschen Vaterland ", the most popular patriotic anthem in the 19th century.
Germania on Guard on the Rhine, Hermann Wislicenus, 1873 " Die Wacht am Rhein" (German: [diː ˈvaxt am ˈʁaɪn], The Watch on the Rhine) is a German patriotic anthem.The song's origins are rooted in the historical French–German enmity, and it was particularly popular in Germany during the Franco-Prussian War, World War I, and World War II.
The Hymne an Deutschland (Hymn to Germany) is a patriotic song which the then-president of West Germany, Theodor Heuss, aspired to establish as the new national anthem of Germany. [1] During the early 1950s prior to the adoption of " Deutschlandlied " by West Germany , it acted as a sort of de facto national anthem of the nascent state.
their happiness is deceit and their freedom is illusion: I am a Prussian, want nothing but to be a Prussian. 4. At times the evil storm roars around me, the night burns in lightning's blaze; even so, it has stormed worse in the world already, and what didn't tremble was the Prussian courage. May rock and oak tree shatter, I will not tremble.