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Thread #73979   Message #1288589
Posted By: Alonzo M. Zilch (inactive)
04-Oct-04 - 05:47 PM
Thread Name: Holocaust/shoa songs. In memory.
Subject: RE: Holocaust/shoa songs. In memory.
Bill Hahn,

Peat Bog Soldiers originated, in 1933, in a Nazi concentration camp. This was in the years leading up to the actual Holocaust. The song was brought to Spain by Jewish German volunteers for the anti-Fascist Republican forces in the Spanish Civil War.