Why do I love the German national anthem so much?

[dcl0sc]

Very stirring!

 

[Vauxie]

Do you goose step to it?

 

[Hongkongphooey]

Alreet Adolf

 

[T28ColdBlowLion]

Coz you’re German?

 

[Vauxie]

You would have ben singing it if our english,scottish,welsh and n.ireland lads and yanks hadnt laid down their lives for us.
Stick the square head national anthem right up you.

 

[Grumpy Old Man]

Very stirring!

Composed by Josef Haydn, an Austrian who worked mainly in the court of Count Esterhazy, and the most famous Austrian Baroque composer after Mozart. He knew how to put a good tune together. The Germans just pinched the tune later - it was originally just known as the Austrian Hymn.

Still not a patch on the Marseillaise or Fratelli d'Italia mind.

 

[TheRey]

You would have ben singing it if our english,scottish,welsh and n.ireland lads and yanks hadnt laid down their lives for us.
Stick the square head national anthem right up you.

Jesus wept

 

[deleted user 785]

Loves the Germans and is scared of women.

Evening Hitler lad

 

[ISOE II]

I used to like the East German anthem

 

[Grumpy Old Man]

You would have ben singing it if our english,scottish,welsh and n.ireland lads and yanks hadnt laid down their lives for us.
Stick the square head national anthem right up you.

And all outnumbered by the Russians who died.

 

[hank williams]

Very stirring!

I do too & the BrazilIan one

 

[davoak]

You would have ben singing it if our english,scottish,welsh and n.ireland lads and yanks hadnt laid down their lives for us.
Stick the square head national anthem right up you.

That's him told

 

[TheRey]

And all outnumbered by the Russians who died.

Yup. The Red Army won WWII, but that doesn't fit the jingoistic bollocks.

 

[gipetto]

Das beste.

 

[Grumpy Old Man]

As a further diversion, under the German post-war constitution, the "Deutschland über alles" verse is no longer sung.

 

[gipetto]

Yup. The Red Army won WWII, but that doesn't fit the jingoistic bollocks.

Eh?

 

[Grumpy Old Man]

Eh?

The decisive contribution of the Red Army on the Eastern front, in terms of putting the Wehrmacht through a meat grinder, with complete disregard for their own losses, and pressing westwards to Berlin, is usually ignored.

 

[gipetto]

The decisive contribution of the Red Army on the Eastern front, in terms of putting the Wehrmacht through a meat grinder, with complete disregard for their own losses, and pressing westwards to Berlin, is usually ignored.

The lad said they won the War? I mean, they contributed to defeating Nazi Germany sure.

Unsure if there was a total disregard for their own losses mind, in terms of Stalin and his generals, yes of course, but the soldiers themselves had no choice.

 

[Zweiguys]

I can’t hear it without the Italian anthem following it due to Schumacher’s wins at Ferrari

 

[Amokachi]

It's average imo.

Italy & France have the best.