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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.
The song's title was also used as the codename for the German offensive in 1944 known today as the Battle of the Bulge. However, the scenario envisioned in the song – i.e., an enemy approaching the Rhine and seeking to cross it, and patriotic German youths mobilizing en masse to defend the river with their lives – never came about in reality.
The battle was militarily defined by the Allies as the Ardennes Counteroffensive, which included the German drive and the American effort to contain and later defeat it. The phrase 'Battle of the Bulge' was coined by contemporary press to describe the way the Allied front line bulged inward on wartime news maps. [43] [44]
He served with the U.S. Army 125th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion, Battery B. The Battle of the Bulge was the last major German offensive on the Western Front and took place from Dec. 16, 1944 ...
The 80th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge reminds us that appeasing tyrants never works. The U.S. must continue to stand strong against tyrants like Vladimir Putin to keep America safe.
On December 16, 1944, the Battle of the Bulge began, as the Allied Forces fought the Nazis in the Ardennes Forest in Belgium and Luxembourg from December 1944 into January 1945.
The song is referenced in the 1949 war film Battleground, which depicts the hardships of American troops attempting to hold the town of Bastogne in late December 1944, during the Battle of the Bulge. German radio is heard broadcasting the song to the entrenched American troops to demoralize them.
WASHINGTON (DC News Now) — People gather at the National World War II Memorial on Dec. 16 to commemorate one of the pivotal moments to come during the war in 1944: the Battle of the Bulge. The ...