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Music as Hitler descends from the clouds

posted 17 years ago by jimjo838
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What music is playing when Hitler is in the plane, just aboved the clouds? I've heard it in lots of documentaries and WWII shows, usually done as more of a march.

[–] karltrowitz 17 years ago

It is an instrumental version of the "Horst Wessel Lied", Sometimes also known as "Die fahne hoch!" (Raise the flag high) which was the anthem of the NSDAP (Nazi party).

[–] webkougra 17 years ago

ahh it's music I feel I could have heard or they would play at Disneyland when you first enter the park, because when i went a few weeks ago, the music is very similar.

[–] whatdoyoumean 16 years ago

I believe it's from Wagner

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[–] ac1223 16 years ago

Its the Horst Wessel song, which was the co-national anthem of Nazi Germany, dedicated to a Nazi who was shot dead by a communist, and subsequently deified by Goebbels.

[–] rothoehler 16 years ago

Horst Wessel was indeed shot in a street fight of the early nazi movement, and later made into a "martyr" by nazi propaganda, but the song is not dedicated to him - it's named after him because he wrote the lyrics.