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The neofolk band Death in June released a recording of the "Horst Wessel Song" under the name "Brown Book" on their 1987 album of the same name. [55] The title theme for Wolfenstein 3D has a rendition of the "Horst-Wessel-Lied", [56] recomposed by Bobby Prince and released for DOS on 5 May 1992. [57] [58]
The Horst-Wessel-Lied ("Song of Horst Wessel"), also known as Die Fahne Hoch ("The Flag Raised"), was the official anthem of the NSDAP. The song was written by Horst Wessel, a party activist and SA leader, who was killed by a member of the Communist Party of Germany. After his death, he was proclaimed a "martyr" by the NSDAP, and his song ...
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During the Nazi era, only the first stanza was used, followed by the SA song "Horst-Wessel-Lied". [11] It was played at occasions of great national significance, such as the opening of the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, when Hitler and his entourage, along with Olympic officials, walked into the stadium amid a chorus of three thousand Germans ...
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The Silesian writer of hit songs, Ralf Erwin, left Germany in 1933 after the Nazi "seizure of power", but was later captured in France, and died in an internment camp there. [ 42 ] The advent of swing music , pioneered in the United States by clarinetist Benny Goodman and his groups, caught on with European youths in a major way.
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The "Sturmlied" ("Storm Song" or "Assault Song") was the de facto anthem of the SA until it was gradually supplanted by the "Horst-Wessel-Lied". History [ edit ]