![]() Schestak, and premiered (in the famous surviving version performed by Carl Woitschach) in the celebrations of Hitler's 48th birthday on 20 April 1937. The song Deutschland Erwache ("Germany Awake"), also known by its original name, Heil Hitler Dir ("Hail Hitler to Thee"), otherwise known as Sachsenmarsch der NSDAP, was written by Dresden-based composer and NSDAP member Bruno C. This is not to be confused with Die Hitlerleute, more commonly referred to as Kameraden Laßt Erschallen, which is a completely different song. That song had the same tune of the Italian fascist anthem Giovinezza. ![]() Unfortunately, no recorded version of the song survives today, only the lyrics. īajer’s account proves once more that song played a central role in the battle for control of the streets. Police promptly moved in to prevent serious trouble. Realizing quickly that Nazis were trying to appropriate the melody of their revolutionary anthem, the socialist residents countered by singing the refrain from the original text Völker hört die Signale! Auf zum letzten Gefecht ("Comrades, listen to the Signal! Onward, to the final battle!"), while others pelted the storm troopers with bits of debris. When the storm troopers broke into song, singing the Hitlernationale, residents threw open their windows, misled momentarily by the familiar tune. Der nationale Sozialismus Wird Deutschlands Zukunft sein.Īppropriating working-class songs such as the Internationale for their own political ends had a direct effect on the streets, as the Nazi composer Hans Bajer noted when giving this account of a march by the SA into working-class district of north Berlin one Sunday afternoon in 1930: Schon jubeln Siegesignale, Schon bricht der Morgen hell herein. Auf rotem Grund im weiβen Felde, Weht unser schwarzes Hakenkreuz. Mit unserem Blut wollen wir das Banner weihen, Zum Zeichen einer neuen Zeit. By 1930, a Nazi version of this working-class standard was in circulation, entitled the Hitlernationale: Īuf, Hitlerleute, schließt die Reihen, Zum Rassenkampf sind wir bereit. The Nazis were not reticent in employing songs and melodies previously associated wholly with socialists and communists in their quest to broaden their appeal to the working class, and the Internationale was a prime target. The first recording of the song was published by the company Electrola around the early 1930s.Īuf, Hitlerleute, schließt die Reihen ( Hitlernationale) The author of the lyrics of Die Hitlerleute was Horst Wessel himself, and the song originated from his unit, the Sturm 67/5 (Sturm 67, Standarte 5) of the Berlin Sturmabteilung, also known as the Sturm "Horst Wessel", named in honor of Horst Wessel, also known by its old name before Horst Wessel's death, "The Hitlerleute". Kameraden Laßt Erschallen ("Comrades Let it Resound") was a Sturmabteilung arrangement of the Kaiserjägerlied written by Karl Mühlberger in 1924. During the Nazi era, the song was performed by Carl Woitschach's orchestra in its full version, incorporating both melodies, as Kampflied der Nationalsozialisten/Herbei zum Kampf.ĭie Hitlerleute ( Kameraden Laßt Erschallen) Das Berliner Jungarbeiterlied was set to the melody of the Air March (the official march of the Soviet Air Force), which was composed in 1921 by Yuliy Abramovich Khayt. Later on, the verses of Das Berliner Jungarbeiterlied (with the opening line Herbei zum Kampf, ihr Knechte der Maschinen) were added to the song. Its lyrics were written by Kleo Pleyer, while the melody was essentially based on that of the traditional German folk song Stimmt an mit hellem hohen klang, which was composed in 1811 by Albert Methfessel. Kampflied der Nationalsozialisten ("Battle Song of the National Socialists"), also known by its opening line Wir Sind Das Heer Vom Hakenkreuz ("We Are the Army of the Swastika"), was an early Nazi hymn.
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