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Nazi anthem –how thw hell did that happen

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all great old songs. Seriously, you really tap your toes to them.

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The ones that always roused me were the initial song to episode 5 of the BBC The World at War. You have to overlook the narration of Olivier and it isn't the entire song. Go to 02:10 of the video where it begins after the opening theme of TWaW.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olYUrlIfWg0&t=210s

Those deep bass drum beats during the chorus were cool. I've tried to find just this one particular version of it elsewhere on Youtube because all the others don't sound particularly rousing/emotive. But no luck so far. Unless it's under some name I haven't guessed at yet.


Another piece of music was the intro to some of the episodes of a 1990s docu. series called Die Deutschen Panzer, especially ep. 2 about the Panther PkZV.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=865JJpwjR1Q

Again, it's not the full song but the drums/trumpets sound very rousing. The first couple of words I can make out are "wir folgen dir" = We follow you.

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yeah, "Erika" is a favorite.I'll listen to those, I may or may not have heard them.

the strange scene from 'the Big Red One" where two Germans in North Africa uniform stand on top of a sand dune, as 'Horst Wessel" plays on sound track..
one spits bitterly at the other
'Horst Wessel vas a Pimp!!"

Great scene in the middle of the movie, no context, very abstract.

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I just remembered something I read a while back. A German who was some kind of confidant to Hitler in the 1920s went to live in America late 1920s. While he was there (or here) he noticed the music that college bands were playing at football games, during intros and halftime. The drum beats and blaring trumpets/etc. He thought those were very evocative/emotive and when he returned to Germany and the Nazi were in power, he adapted this style of music for the Nazi party rallies, Nuremburg and otherwise. I never heard any details about exactly which or how many songs.

I have a picture of his face in my mind but cannot just now remember the name or his function in Nazi Germany. He ran afoul of the Nazis in some way and had to leave. Something about being flown around for hours in a transport, making him think he had been taken out of Germany to scare him for some reason.

But anyway, I thought that was interesting that Nazi rally music owed of its origin to USA football college band music.

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Old habits die hard.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

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Instead of being pissed off about this the Germans needs to get their act together and start DEFENDING THEIR NATION.



Billions of people have seen Steven Seagal films and his films have made billions

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exactly...stop worrying about the wrong version of DUA being played, and start worrying a lot more about some frocked skullcapped bearded BO-ridden ahole howling like a dying animal drowning in it's own blood, from minaret speakers.

Hitler is not coming back.
The muslims are just getting started.

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It is the true anthem of Germany:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6sXIoYOnps

I have tears in my eyes. A glorious anthem.







Die Wehrmacht http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGb83mAAW4Ylang lebe das Vaterland!

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What is more stupid is the media calling it a "Nazi anthem" when it was written in 1841.

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Did Wagner write either of them?

"You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them." Solzhenitsyn

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Hey Germany, this is the least of your problems today.
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