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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]
The song's lyrics were written by Willi Münker in November 1932, [1] before Hitler's rise to power. It was set to music by Joseph Neuhäuser in 1935, reportedly based on an old folk song. It was published and recorded for the first time in 1937. It is an ode to the Westerwald region of western Germany.
The lyrics for this song were written by poet Dietrich Eckart, with the second stanza being written in 1919, the third in 1921 and the first in 1923. The stanzas were later rearranged into the now common order. The music was composed by Hans Gansser in 1921. [1]
13 October — Germany, in a note to Brussels, guarantees the inviolability and integrity of Belgium so long as the latter abstains from military action against Germany; 5 November — In the Reich Chancellery, Adolf Hitler holds a secret meeting and states his plans for acquiring "living space" for the German people (recorded in the Hossbach ...
Kristallnacht (German pronunciation: [kʁɪsˈtalnaχt] ⓘ lit. ' crystal night ') or the Night of Broken Glass, also called the November pogrom(s) (German: Novemberpogrome, pronounced [noˈvɛm.bɐ.poˌɡʁoːmə] ⓘ), [1] [2] [3] was a pogrom against Jews carried out by the Nazi Party's Sturmabteilung (SA) and Schutzstaffel (SS) paramilitary forces along with some participation from the ...
The twenty popular records in the United States listed below were extracted from Joel Whitburn's Pop Memories 1890–1954, [8] record sales reported on the "Discography of American Historical Recordings" website, and other sources as specified.
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The song is sung in a bar in Germany in the 1961 film Judgment at Nuremberg. In a scene featuring Marlene Dietrich (who recorded the song several times), and Spencer Tracy , Dietrich's character explains to Tracy's that the German words are much sadder than the English translations.