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"Freiheit", also known as "Spaniens Himmel" or "Die Thälmann-Kolonne", is a song written in 1936 by Gudrun Kabisch and Paul Dessau, German anti-fascists. The song was written for the International Brigades but later became a popular standard in Germany and in American communist and folk music communities. The title translates as "Freedom" in ...
The song was important to certain anti-Nazi resistance movements in Germany. [6] In 1942, Sophie Scholl , a member of the White Rose resistance group, played the song on her flute outside the walls of Ulm prison, where her father Robert had been detained for calling the Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler a "scourge of God".
" 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.
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 ...
The actor and singer debunks myths about his role in the end of the Cold War 'I Was Just a Man Who Sang a Song About Freedom': 30 Years Later, David Hasselhoff Looks Back on His Surprising Role in ...
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 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]
For great freedom's sake. — Refrain: — Hey F.P.O.! We are here! — Bold, daring, and ready for battle. — This very day the partisans will defeat the fiend, — In the struggle for workers' power. The limbs are strong. Muscles of steel and lead, We are leaving the ghetto today In order to bring you freedom tomorrow. — Refrain