Posted on 02/12/2017 3:42:00 PM PST by brucedickinson
German tennis player Andrea Petkovic said it was “the worst thing I experienced,” and the “epitome of ignorance,” after her Saturday match in Lahaina, Hawaii, against American Alison Riske began with a robust singing of the German national anthem so cherished by the late Adolf Hitler, Das Lied der Deutschen, which opens with the immortal verse, “Deutschland, Deutschland ueber alles” (Germany, Germany above all), and has been banned in Germany since 1945.
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Huh, Really?
I am pretty big on History and am a well informed guy and I didn't know that.
The song is still the German anthem, they just got rid of the first stanza.
Stalin wanted a national anthem in the closing days of World War II because the Communist “Internationale” was embarrassing and reflected a country in revolution.
It wasn’t fitting for a nation-state and needed to be changed.
The post-war Soviet Union adopted conventional nomenclature for the government as well as recognizing it was part of a world in which it was no longer isolated.
Pretty much the same reason the Germans changed their anthem in the aftermath of World War II.
Maybe they should have the Japanese anime girls sing “Panzerlied”!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUi1A2zuHdk
In the movie “The Dish” - the Aussie perspective and participation in the Apollo 11 moon landing, the US ambassador shows up, and the local garage band starts playing the “Hawaii Five-O” theme as the US national anthem.
Media people know nothing about history. Germany was the last major country to be formed in Europe. It struggled for many centuries with various city states and states that were not unified. When it finally came together, again, later than other European countries, this became the national anthem. Deutchland uber ales - Germany over all - refers to one German nation over all the various states and city states that were not unified for so many centuries.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEdoLKknCi0&bpctr=1486946531
“Media people know nothing about history” science, mathematics, etc etc.
Media people just know nothing!
It is probably the most stirring national anthem. I remember watching TV as a kid in the early sixties and some game show played it and the contestants had to guess which country’s anthem it was. Nobody got the answer and when they said “Russia” you could have heard a pin drop. But it did come from the country that produced a Tchaikovsky, so maybe the beauty of the piece shouldn’t be surprising.
Are there any Hohenzollerns who could use a job?
Why does it say “in der Welt” then?
It’s beautiful music, as is the melody Horst Wessel is based on. Too bad it got hijacked.
Deutschland Deutschland
Mir stinkt alles
Was dir selbst an dir gefällt
Wurden doch zu sehr gequält
Korruption Gewalt und Willkür
Geht dem Staat leicht von der Hand
Denk auch mal an deiner Kinder
Denke deutsches Vaterland
Dank auch mai an deine Kinder
Denke deutsches Vaterland
A pretty radical song from back in the 80s, but with Merkel in charge, maybe not so radical after all....
Germany could use them today, to throw Angela Merkel out of power. -Tom
Yep, turned out Stalin wasn’t much of an “Internationalist.”
I just remember the old East German “anthem” ;)
Hail, hail East Germany
Land of fruit and grape
Land where you’ll regret
If you try to escape
No matter if you tunnel under
or take a running jump at the wall
Forget it, the guards will kill you,
if the electrified fence doesn’t first.
It was a mistake. Apologies have been made.
Precisely. Many took "Deutschland Uber Alles" to mean Germany should rule the world, which is not the meaning at all, although I'm sure the Nazis probably did take that meaning from it.
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