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1 posted on 07/11/2008 5:41:04 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
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This is a long read but a rewarding one if you see it through. Check out the list of names. See any familiar ones? Maybe that mysterious uncle your grandparents never talked about.


2 posted on 07/11/2008 5:44:31 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson (For events that occurred in 1938, real time is 1938, not 2008.)
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No sympathy for Commies.


4 posted on 07/11/2008 6:10:21 AM PDT by dfwgator ( This tag blank until football season.)
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interesting. thanks.

the writer provides more description, and not much analysis, than our contemporary j-school grads.

the latter are more interested in a politically correct ideological overlay.

wonder where ernest hemingway was?


6 posted on 07/11/2008 6:28:14 AM PDT by ken21 ( people die + you never hear from them again.)
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To: Homer_J_Simpson

DIE THAELMANNKOLONNE

(The Thaelmann Battalion, named for German Communist Party leader Ernst Thaelmann, who would die in Buchenwald in 1944)

Spaniens Himmel breitet seine Sterne
über unsre Schützengräben aus,
und der Morgen grüßt schon aus der Ferne,
bald geht es zum neuen Kampf hinaus

Die Heimat ist weit,
doch wir sind bereit,
zu kämpfen und siegen für dich,
Freiheit

2.
Dem Faschisten werden wir nicht weichen,
schickt er auch die Kugeln hageldicht.
Mit uns stehn Kameraden ohnegleichen,
und ein Rückwärts gibt es für uns nicht.

Die Heimat ist weit,
doch wir sind bereit,
zu kämpfen und siegen für dich,
Freiheit

3.
Rührt die Trommel, fällt die Bajonette!
Vorwärts Marsch ! Der Sieg ist unser Lohn!
Mit der roten Fahne brecht die Kette!
Auf zum Kampf, das Thälmann - Bataillon!

Die Heimat ist weit,
doch wir sind bereit,
zu kämpfen und siegen für dich,
Freiheit

—Ernst Busch, 1938

TRANSLATION:
Spain spreads its stars
Over our trenches
And as morning approaches in the distance,
Another battle is about to start

(Refrain)
Our home’s far away, but we are prepared
We’re fighting and winning for you, Freedom.

We will not quail before the fascist,
Though he sends out bullets thick as hail.
With us stand peerless comrades,
And a backward glance is not for us

(Refrain)

Beat the drum! Fix bayonets!
Forward, march, victory will be our reward.
With the red flag, smash their column!
Into battle, Thaelmann Battalion!
(refrain)


7 posted on 07/11/2008 8:12:38 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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