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Panzerlied ("Tank song") was a German military march of the Wehrmacht armored troops (Panzerwaffe), composed in 1933. [16] The NSKK (Nationalsozialistisches Kraftfahrkorps) also made their own take on the Panzerlied, but with a different variation called the Panzerwagenlied ("Armored car song").
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.
Bands of this type have continued to play in Germany. Whereas in America, the rhythmically accented and innovative Bebop enjoyed a heyday until the mid-1950s, this music---unlike the Cool Jazz that had also boomed in the 1950s---was a genre German musicians were unaccustomed to. They preferred Cool Jazz, because with its emphasis on brass ...
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 timpani or stamping feet (e.g. of ...
The first patriotic war song of WWII in the U.S. was "God Bless America," written by Irving Berlin for a World War I wartime revue, but it was withheld and later revised and used in World War II. [4] There were many other patriotic wartime songs during this time such as, " A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square " by Glenn Miller and "Arms for ...
Music in Nazi Germany, like all cultural activities in the regime, was controlled and "co-ordinated" (Gleichschaltung) by various entities of the state and the Nazi Party, with Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels and the prominent Nazi theorist Alfred Rosenberg playing leading – and competing – roles.
Songs of Freedom by James Connolly (edited by Mat Callahan with introductions by Theo Dorgan and James Connolly Heron) was published in 2013. Working Class Heroes was published in 2019 to be followed by Songs of Slavery and Emancipation published in 2022. A film documenting the making of Songs of Slavery and Emancipation was also released in 2022.
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