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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 ...
The song later became known as Die Fahne Hoch ("Raise the Flag") and finally the "Horst-Wessel-Lied" ("Horst Wessel Song"). [39] The Nazis made it their official anthem and, after they came to power, the co-national anthem of Nazi Germany, along with the first stanza of the Deutschlandlied . [ 80 ]
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 "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 ]
Bella Ciao, widely considered the anthem of the Italian Partisans, and still a popular anti-fascist song; Horst Wessel Lied, the anthem of the National Socialist Party, written in 1929 and adopted in 1930; March of Ukrainian Nationalists, the anthem of the OUN, written in 1929, adopted in 1932 and adapted for the Armed Forces of Ukraine in 2017.