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unity
Image:
Hitler giving an address in the
Sportpalast, Berlin
Sound: excerpt from Hitler
address to 1934 Nazi Party Congress in Nuremberg
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(credit: National Archives,
USA); translation:
"Comrades, we stand firmly
together for Germany, and we must stand firmly together for Germany.
I am handing you the new insignia, knowing I place it in the most
loyal hands in Germany. In the past you have proven your loyalty to
me a thousand times. In the future it cannot and will not be any different!"
something for the home
Image:
A customer in German art shop chooses a portrait of Hitler for a special
Christmas gift.
Music: excerpt from The
Horst Wessel Song (1927), a popular song of the Nazi era which became
the official Nazi anthem (performance credit: unknown)
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time: ~16 sec.
"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."
'what
remains'
Image:
Segment of Hitler's upper teeth brought by the Russians along with other
remains, back to Moscow where they were concealed until the period of
Perestroika in the early 1990's when the Moscow Archive was opened to
scholars. (photo credit: unknown)
Music: excerpt from Götterdämmerung
(Twilight of the Gods) by Richard Wagner, played over German radio when
Hitler's death was announced. --Load
time: ~17 sec.
after
(dis)illusion, during unification
Image:
Berlin Wall (Ehemaliger Mauerbereich
Kapelleufer)
postcard photo Nr. B124, (C) from Ute & Bernd Eickemeyer, Berlin.
Music: Montage of West
and East German anthem fragments assembled by Linda Fisher. --Load
time: ~17 sec. In
order of appearance:
West German
National Anthem a.k.a. Deutschland Lied adapted from the
2nd movement of the "Kaiser Quartet" Op. 76, #1 by Franz Joseph
Haydn; Lyrics:
"Unity and Rights and Freedom
For the German Fatherland
Let us all strive for that
Brotherly with heart and hand.
Unity and Rights and Freedom
Are the foundation for happiness
Bloom in the glow of happiness
Bloom German Fatherland."
*East German National Anthem a.k.a
Auferstanden aus Ruinen (1949) by Hans Eisler. Lyrics by Johannes
Becher were sung up until 1961 when the Wall was erected and they
were no longer thought appropriate for a Germany thus divided. Lyrics:
"Rising from the ruins,
And devoted to the future,
Let us serve Good,
Germany, a united Fatherland.
Old neccessities force us to act,
And together we will act as one,
For then we must surely succed,
And the sun, like never before,
Will shine over Germany
Will shine over Germany."
(*credit: music fragment used in montage from audio tape accompanying
Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit by Ulrich Allwardt, Bonn:
Bundeszentrale fur politische Bildung, 1994)
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