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Therefore, the best that can be understood about German Music during the war is the official Nazi government policy, the level of enforcement, and some notion of the diversity of other music listened to, but as the losers in the war German Music and Nazi songs from World War II has not been assigned the high heroic status of American and ...
SS marschiert in Feindesland ("SS marches in enemy territory") also known as Teufelslied ("The Devil's Song") [7] was a marching song of the Waffen-SS during the German-Soviet War. The music for this song came from the Lied der Legion Condor ("Song of the Condor Legion"), whose lyrics and music were written by Wolfram Philipps and Christian ...
Music, he said, should be German, it should be volksverbunden, or linked to the volk, the German nation, and it should express the soul of Germany, die deutsche Seele. Unfortunately how to interpret these Romantic goals was left up to each of the competing authorities, who wondered if one key was more "Nordic" than another, and what was the ...
Germania on Guard on the Rhine, Hermann Wislicenus, 1873 " Die Wacht am Rhein" (German: [diː ˈvaxt am ˈʁaɪn], The Watch on the Rhine) is a German patriotic anthem.The song's origins are rooted in the historical French–German enmity, and it was particularly popular in Germany during the Franco-Prussian War, World War I, and World War II.
"Ein Heller und ein Batzen", also known by its chorus of "Heidi, heido, heida", [1] (with all three words being modifications of the name Adelheid) [2] is a German folk song. Written by Albert von Schlippenbach [ de ] in the 1820s as a student drinking song , it later became a popular marching song in the Wehrmacht during the Second World War.
In 1936, the German music critic Alfred Weidemann published an article, in which he identified the melody of a song composed in 1865 by Peter Cornelius as the "Urmelodie" (source-melody). [27] According to Weidemann, Cornelius described the tune as a "Viennese folk tune".
Girls und Panzer, a Japanese anime series about WW2-era tanks being maintained and used as a school sport for girls includes the song (used without lyrics) for the school (Kuromorimine Girls Academy) that uses tanks of Nazi Germany. The schools vice commander, Erika Itsumi, gets her name from the song whilst the name "Erika" is both a German ...
Schräge Musik (German pronunciation: [ˈʃʁɛːgə muˈziːk]) was a common name for the fitting of an upward-firing autocannon or machine gun, to an interceptor aircraft, such as a night fighter. The term was introduced by the German Luftwaffe during World War II.