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To: nfldgirl

One of my all time favorites. Wonderful music. I choke up every him he sings “Edel Weis” even though it bears no relation whatsoever to Austria. I don’t care!


8 posted on 12/17/2023 5:12:48 PM PST by Garden Island
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To: Garden Island
Adolf Hitlers Lieblingsblume ist das schlichte Edelweiss (Adolf Hitler's favorite flower is the simple edelweiss)--Harry Steier (1934)
37 posted on 12/17/2023 5:57:36 PM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: Garden Island

I think it was Mark Steyn who wrote about Edel Weis, a Austrian gentleman immigrant who told of remembering singing that song when he was a young lad in Austria before WWII. Of course the song was not written till the 60’s. Many people think that it is the national anthem of Austria.


90 posted on 12/18/2023 10:20:19 AM PST by ABN 505 (Right is right if nobody is right, and wrong is wrong if everybody is wrong. ~Archbishop Fulton John)
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