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((Short description|Songs created or used by the National Socialist German Workers' Party))((More citations needed|date=September 2023))((Distinguish|Music in Nazi Germany))
'''Nazi songs''' are songs and [[marching song|march]]es created by the [[Nazi Party]]. In modern Germany, the public singing or performing of songs exclusively associated with the Nazi Party is now illegal.

==Background==
There is often confusion between songs written specifically for the [[Nazi Party]], and much older German patriotic songs (from before [[World War I]]) that were used extensively by the Nazis and have become associated with them. This observation applies above all to ''[[Das Lied der Deutschen]]'' ("The song of the Germans"), written in 1841. It became the [[national anthem]] of the [[Weimar Republic]] in 1922, but during the [[Nazism|Nazi]] era, only the first stanza was used, followed by the [[Sturmabteilung|SA]] song "[[Horst-Wessel-Lied]]".<ref>((cite book |editor-last=Geisler |editor-first=y Michael E. |title=National Symbols, Fractured Identities: Contesting the National Narrative |publisher=Middlebury |date=2005|page=71 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CLVaSxt-sV0C&pg=PA71 |isbn=978-1584654377))</ref>

In modern Germany, the public singing or performing of songs identified exclusively with [[Nazi Germany]] is illegal.<ref>[[Strafgesetzbuch section 86a]], German Criminal Code §86a</ref> It can be punished with up to three years of imprisonment.

== ''Sturmabteilung'' (SA) songs==
Many pre-1933 [[Sturmabteilung|SA]] songs were based on older German folk melodies, but there were also instances in which SA combat songs copied the melodies of rival [[Roter Frontkämpferbund|Red Front Fighters]] songs, which were in turn based on Russian marches. An example of this is the fascist song ''Brüder in Zechen und Gruben'' ("Brothers in mines and pits"), which copied the melody of the communist [[:de:Brüder, zur Sonne, zur Freiheit|''Brüder, zur Sonne, zur Freiheit'']] ("Brothers, to the sun, to freedom"), whose melody, in turn, belonged to the march Смело, товарищи, в ногу/''Smelo, tovarishchi, v nogu'' ("Comrades, let's bravely march"), which was written in 1895/6 by [[Leonid Radin]] in Moscow's [[Taganka Prison]].

=== ''Horst Wessel Lied'' ===
((main|Horst-Wessel-Lied))
The ''[[Horst-Wessel-Lied]]'' ("Song of Horst Wessel"), also known as ''Die Fahne Hoch'' ("The Flag Raised"), was the official anthem of the [[NSDAP]]. The song was written by [[Horst Wessel]], a party activist and SA leader, who was killed by a member of the [[Communist Party of Germany]]. After his death, he was proclaimed a "martyr" by the NSDAP, and his song gained widespread popularity among Nazi Party followers.<ref>((cite web |url=http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/horstwessel.html |title=Modern History Sourcebook: The Horst Wessel Song |last= Halsall|first= Paul|date=July 1998 |website=[[Fordham University]]|access-date=12 May 2018))</ref>

Public performances of the song are currently forbidden in Germany ([[Strafgesetzbuch section 86a|StGB §86a]]) and Austria ([[Verbotsgesetz 1947]]), a ban that includes both the lyrics and the melody, which are only permitted for educational purposes.

===''Kampflied der Nationalsozialisten''===
''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. 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]]. Later on, the verses of ''Das Berliner Jungarbeiterlied'' (with the opening line ''Herbei zum Kampf, ihr Knechte der Maschinen'') were added to the song. ''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]]. 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''.

=== ''Die Hitlerleute'' (''Kameraden Laßt Erschallen'') ===
''Kameraden Laßt Erschallen'' ("Comrades Let it Resound") was a [[Sturmabteilung]] arrangement of the Kaiserjägerlied written by [[Karl Mühlberger]] in 1924. 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". The first recording of the song was published by the company [[Electrola]] around the early 1930s.

=== ''Auf, Hitlerleute, schließt die Reihen'' (''Hitlernationale'')===
The Nazis were not reticent in employing songs and melodies previously associated wholly with [[socialism|socialists]] and [[communism|communists]] in their quest to broaden their appeal to the working class, and the [[Internationale]] was a prime target. By 1930, a Nazi version of this working-class standard was in circulation, entitled the ''Hitlernationale'':<ref name="auto">https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/367356/1/Mark%2520Rose%2520PhD.pdf ((Bare URL PDF|date=March 2022))</ref>

The lyrics were as follows:

((Quote|text=''Auf, Hitlerleute, schließt die Reihen,''
''Zum Rassenkampf sind wir bereit.''
''Mit unserem Blut wollen wir das Banner weihen,''
''Zum Zeichen einer neuen Zeit.''
''Auf rotem Grund im weiβen Felde,''
''Weht unser schwarzes Hakenkreuz.''
''Schon jubeln Siegesignale,''
''Schon bricht der Morgen hell herein.''
''Der nationale Sozialismus''
''Wird Deutschlands Zukunft sein.''))
((Quote|text=Arise Hitler men, close ranks,
We are ready for the racial struggle.
With our blood we consecrate the banner,
The symbol of a new era.
On its red and white background,
Shines our black swastika bright.
Victory sounds are heard all over,
As the morning light breaks through;
National Socialism
Is the future of Germany.))

Appropriating 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:

<blockquote>When the storm troopers broke into song, singing the ''Hitlernationale'', residents threw open their windows, misled momentarily by the familiar tune. 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. Police promptly moved in to prevent serious trouble.<ref name="auto"/></blockquote>

Bajer’s account proves once more that song played a central role in the battle for control of the streets. No recorded version of the song survives today, only the lyrics.<ref name="The Internationale (Third Reich version!)">((cite web | url=https://newamericangovernment.org/the-internationale-third-reich-version/ | title=The Internationale (Third Reich version!) | date=27 November 2019 ))</ref>

=== ''Hitlerleute'' ("Hitler's people") ===
That song had the same tune of the Italian fascist anthem ''[[Giovinezza]]''.<ref>((Cite web|url=http://archive.org/details/youtube--d4buOk_o2Q|title=Hitlerleute (Lyrics)|date=May 10, 2017|via=[[Internet Archive]]))</ref>

This is not to be confused with ''Die Hitlerleute'', more commonly referred to as ''Kameraden Laßt Erschallen'', which is a completely different song.

== ''SS marschiert in Feindesland '' ==
''SS marschiert in Feindesland'' ("SS marches in enemy territory") also known as ''Teufelslied'' ("The Devil's Song")<ref>One of many German military songs thus labelled, historically. ((cite journal | editor-last=Brockhaus|editor-first=Friedrich Arnold |editor-link=Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus|date=1814 |title=Über Deutsche Vaterländische Poesie Dieser Zeit|journal=Deutsche Blätter |volume=5 |issue=186 |page=181 ))</ref> was a marching song of the [[Waffen-SS]] during the [[German-Soviet War]]. The music for this song came from the ''Lied der Legion Condor'' ("Song of the [[Condor Legion]]"), whose lyrics and music were written by [[Wolfram Philipps]] and [[Christian Jährig]], two Condor Legion pilots with the rank of ''[[Oberleutnant]]''. The somber music has a [[Major_and_minor#Keys|minor]] character, and the song was "exposed to the accusation of being un-German, Russian or [[Bolshevik]]". In 1939, the ''Lied der Legion Condor'' was incorporated into a [[March (music)|march]] named ''Marsch/Parademarsch der Legion Condor'' after an instrumental intro was composed by ''Stabsmusikmeister'' [[Karl Bögelsack]]. This march has two parts: the first ([[Major_and_minor#Keys|major]]) part is the instrumental intro composed by Karl Bögelsack, and the second part ([[Trio (musical form)|trio]]) is the ''Lied der Legion Condor'', which was composed/written by Wolfram Philipps and Christian Jährig.<ref>((cite web | url=https://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?t=13676 | title=Music of the Condor Legion - Axis History Forum ))</ref> A marching song with the same melody as the ''Lied der Legion Condor'' was adopted by the [[Charlemagne Division|Charlemagne French SS Division]],<ref>((Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12fgTpZoccM&bpctr=1536798084|title= YouTube|website=www.youtube.com))((cbignore))((Dead Youtube links|date=February 2022))</ref> the [[20th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Estonian)|Estonian SS Division]], the [[Latvian Legion]] and the [[Norwegian Legion]] during the war.<ref>((cite book |last1=Page Taylor |first1=Hugh|last2=Bender|first2=Roger James|title=Uniforms, Organization and History of the Waffen-SS|place=San Jose, California |publisher=R. James Bender Publisher|date=1969 |isbn=0-912138-25-4))</ref> A song with a similar melody, ''Dragões do Ar'' ("Dragons of the Air"), was adopted by the [[Paratroopers Brigade (Brazil)]].<ref>((Cite web |title=YouTube |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9Oo9IlalHQ&ab |website=www.youtube.com))((cbignore))</ref>

In 2013, Stefan Gotschacher, press secretary of the [[right-wing populist]] and [[national-conservative]] [[Freedom Party of Austria|FPÖ]] political party in Austria, was fired after posting the lyrics of ''SS marschiert in Feindesland'' on his Facebook page.<ref>"[https://www.focus.de/politik/ausland/ss-marschiert-in-feindesland-fpoe-feuert-sprecher-wegen-zitat-von-waffen-ss-auf-facebook-_aid_958860.html FPÖ feuert Sprecher wegen Zitat von Waffen-SS auf Facebook]" ("FPÖ fires spokesman for quoting Waffen-SS on Facebook"), ''[[Focus (German magazine)|Focus]]'', 12 April 2013 (in German)</ref>

== ''Es zittern die morschen Knochen'' ==
''Es zittern die morschen Knochen'' ("The Rotten Bones Are Trembling") by [[Hans Baumann (writer)|Hans Baumann]] was, after the ''Horst-Wessel-Lied'', one of the most famous Nazi songs and the official song of the [[Hitler Youth]].<ref>((cite journal |date=1935 |title=Lieder der Hitlerjugend|language=de |trans-title=Songs of the Hitler Youth|journal=Demokratische Blätter |volume=7 |issue=78 ))</ref>

The original song's refrain (1932) was ''Denn heute gehört uns Deutschland / und morgen die ganze Welt'' ("For today, Germany is ours / and tomorrow the whole world"). In a later version (1937) this was mitigated for the Hitler Youth to ''Denn heute da hört uns Deutschland...'' ("For today, Germany hears us...").<ref name="zittern_kgedaechtnis">((cite web |last=Bengelsdorf|first= Reinhold|url=http://kollektives-gedaechtnis.de/texte/vor45/lieder.html |title=Lieder der SA und deren unterschiedliche|language=de |trans-title=Songs of the SS and their various lyrics|date=2002|url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304132954/http://www.kollektives-gedaechtnis.de/texte/vor45/lieder.html |archive-date=4 March 2016|access-date=12 May 2018 ))</ref>

==''Vorwärts! Vorwärts!''==
''Vorwärts! Vorwärts! Schmettern die hellen Fanfaren'' ("Forward! Forward! Blare the Bright Fanfares") was a [[Hitler Youth]] marching song. The text of the song, published in 1933, comes from [[Baldur von Schirach]] and is based on a melody by [[Universum Film AG|UFA]] composer [[Hans-Otto Borgmann]].

''Vorwärts! Vorwärts!'' was first performed in the 1933 propaganda film ''[[Hitlerjunge Quex (film)|Hitlerjunge Quex]]''. Motifs from the song are used throughout the film, underlying representations of the Hitler Youth, in contrast to [[The Internationale]] and jazz motifs in scenes from a socialist "commune".<ref>((Cite web |url=http://www.phil.uni-sb.de/projekte/imprimatur/2000/imp000209.html |title=Prümm, K: ''Hitlerjunge Quex: Psychopolitik der Nazipropaganda durch das Medium Film'' |language=de |access-date=2009-04-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081008005116/http://www.phil.uni-sb.de/projekte/imprimatur/2000/imp000209.html |archive-date=2008-10-08 |url-status=dead ))</ref>

== ''Erika'' ==
((main|Erika (song)))
''Erika'' is a [[marching song]] used by the German military. The song was composed by [[Herms Niel]] in the 1930s, and it soon came into usage by the [[Wehrmacht]], especially the [[German Army (Wehrmacht)|Heer]]. No other marching song during [[World War II]] reached the popularity of ''Erika''.

==''Panzerlied''==
''[[Panzerlied]]'' ("Tank song") was a German military [[March (music)|march]] of the [[Wehrmacht]] armored troops ([[Panzerwaffe]]), composed in 1933.<ref>The music came before the lyrics, and the first recording of the Panzerlied was an instrumental was published by Telefunken under the name ''Die Eiserne Schar'' [http://www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fg-taiwan-nazi-displays-20161230-story.html Nazi imagery from Taiwan stems from ignorance, not hate, analysts say], ''[[Los Angeles Times]]''</ref> The [[National Socialist Motor Corps|NSKK]] (''Nationalsozialistisches Kraftfahrkorps'') also made their own take on the ''Panzerlied'', but with a different variation called the ''Panzerwagenlied'' ("Tank wagon song"). In 2017, the [[Bundeswehr]] was banned from publishing [[Song book|songbooks]] containing ''Panzerlied'' and other marching songs by the [[Federal Ministry of Defence (Germany)|Minister of Defence]] [[Ursula von der Leyen]] as part of new  efforts at [[denazification]].<ref>((cite news |url=http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/verteidigungsministerium-stoppt-bundeswehr-liederbuch-a-1147482.html|title="Schwarzbraun ist die Haselnuss": Ministerium stoppt Bundeswehr-Liederbuch |trans-title="Dark-brown is the hazelnut": Ministry withdraws Bundeswehr songbook |date=12 May 2017 |publisher=[[Der Spiegel]] ))</ref>

==Other music==
* ''[[Erzherzog-Albrecht-Marsch]]''
* ''[[Es war ein Edelweiss]]''
* ''[[Sturmlied]]''
* ''[[Volk ans Gewehr]]''

==References==
((Reflist))

==Further reading==
* ((cite book |last=Frommann |first=Eberhard |date=1999 |title=Die Lieder des NS-Zeit: Untersuchungen zur nationalsozialistischen Liedpropaganda von den Anfängen bis zum Zweiten Weltkrieg |edition=1st |language=de |trans-title=The songs of the NS era: Investigations on the National Socialist propaganda songs from the beginning to the Second World War|publisher=PapyRossa|isbn=3-89438-177-9 ))

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