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To: MeeknMing
I love it, especially: "just as they finish learning the Horst Wessel song." Hah!!
11 posted on 02/12/2003 8:48:45 AM PST by Argh
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To: Argh; All
I love it, especially: "just as they finish learning the Horst Wessel song." Hah!!

LOL ! I must say, I had to look that up. Funny !


http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/horstwessel.html

Modern History Sourcebook:
The Horst Wessel Song


Horst Wessel (b. September 9, 1907, Bielefeld, Germany -- d. February 23, 1930, Berlin, Germany) joined the Nazi party in in 1926. He was killed by political enemies   in a fight in his  rooms in Berlin. Glorified as a martyr to the Nazi cause, his song became the offical Nazi anthem.

This was perhaps the most famous Nazi song of the war.

[Correction to  previous note here. The Horst Wessel Song was not, as previously stated, the German song sung, famously, in the emotional scene Rick's Cafe Amercaine in Casablanca, only to be drowned out by the Marseillaise!. As several correspondents pointe out, that song was an older patriotic, but (non-Nazi song called  Wacht am  Rhein (The Watch on the Rhine)]

Click to hear a Real Audio of the Horst Wessel Song


Translation

Flag high, ranks closed,
The S.A. marches with silent solid steps.
Comrades shot by the red front and reaction
march in spirit with us in our ranks.

The street free for the brown battalions,
The street free for the Storm Troopers.
Millions, full of hope, look up at the swastika;
The day breaks for freedom and for bread.

For the last time the call will now be blown;
For the struggle now we all stand ready.
Soon will fly Hitler-flags over every street;
Slavery will last only a short time longer.

Flag high, ranks closed,
The S.A. marches with silent solid steps.
Comrades shot by the red front and reaction
march in spirit with us in our ranks.

12 posted on 02/12/2003 10:36:02 AM PST by MeekOneGOP (Bu-bye SADdam. You're soon to meet your buddy Stalin in Hades.)
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