[brucedickinson]

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."

"Some German fans started singing the correct German anthem, buy were drowned out by the Nazi tune on the loudspeakers."

"German tennis player Andrea Petkovic said it was “the worst thing I experienced,” and the “epitome of ignorance."

“Germany, Germany above all / above anything in the world / when always for protection / we stand together as brothers. / from the Meuse river (rising in France and flowing through Belgium and the Netherlands, well west of Germany) to the Nemen river (east of Poland) / from the Adige river (Italian border) to the Belt (the sea near Denmark).”

I can't believe these people are not ashamed of their country/past/the fact that they are breathing. I must retire to my fainting couch!!

[VietVet]

“Deutschland Uber Alles” is not a Nazi anthem. It dates back to Imperial Germany.

[Reily]

Banned?

I remember in the late 1970s or 1980s when the then West Germans sent that commando team to Kenya (I think!) to successfully take back the Lufthansa airliner Palestinian hijackers had seized. When they returned to a West German airport they came off the plane and stood at attention (in civilian clothes!) to Deutschland Uber Alles. Remember it predates WWII! Were the lyrics different from the WWII version? Don’t know it was being sung in German!

[matt1234]

World Series 1992 in Atlanta:

[ANKE69]

Negative! I’m not ashamed of the country I was born in, I had no hand in the past or am I ashamed of the fact that I’m still breathing. ..

[dfwgator]

[gaijin]

Incorrect.

The anthem of the Third Reich was something else ENTIRELY.

People make this mistake all the time, it’s like they WANT to be wrong.

The “swastika”..?

It’s a 3,000 year old Buddhist symbol, but flipped.

You can find it alllll over Japan in fact until very recently the quickie symbol for a Buddhist temple was that —a backwards Swastika.

But with more foreign interest in Japan owing to the impending Olympics they had to suddenly drop it, cuz stupid panicky dummies.

“The budget this year I think is a tad niggardly...” —> DC bureaucrat fired.

[PAR35]

Fake News. Lying Press.

No wonder it’s bylined Staff. Obviously no one wanted their name attached to this pack of lies.

For the young and ignorant that might be reading this, the song was adopted by the liberal Weimar Republic run by the Socialist president Frederich Ebert, father of Communist East German leader Frederich Ebert, Jr. (Lord Mayor of East Berlin during the Berlin airlift and for years thereafter).

“Opens with Nazi Anthem”. No, “Opens with Socialist Anthem”

Lugenpresse.

[Unam Sanctam]

The song is still the German anthem, they just got rid of the first stanza.

[rigelkentaurus]

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.

[markomalley]

Of course you have this version of Deutschland, Deutschland sung by Schroeder Roadshow:

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....

[fruser1]

Next time use "Tomorrow belongs to me", from Cabaret.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29Mg6Gfh9Co

[Churchillspirit]

It was a mistake. Apologies have been made.

[left that other site]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTsg9i6lvqU

Great movie scene from one of my favorite flicks.

[SkyDancer]

[Toespi]

It seems Petkovic took it very personally. “It is the worst thing that has ever happened to me”. (A joke, right?)

“I thought it was the epitome of ignorance, and I’ve never felt more disrespected in my whole life, let alone in Fed Cup, and I’ve played Fed Cup for 13 years now and it is the worst thing that has ever happened to me,” Petkovic said after her loss.

[Fiji Hill]

Not a Nazi anthem. The words were written in the 1840’s. The music was written in 1797 by the great composer Joseph Haydn and was used for the Aurtrian national anthem until the early twentieth century.

[Fiji Hill]

The Song of the (Socialist Unity) Party--Ernst Busch (1950)

The Party, the Party is always right
And comrades, it's here to stay.
Because who fights for justice is always right
Against lies and exploitation...
So In Lenin's spirit, forged by Stalin,
The Party, the Party, the Party!

[Fiji Hill]

Adolf Hitler's Favorite Flower is the Simple Edelweiss--Harry Steier (1934)