The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #71054   Message #1213984
Posted By: alanabit
25-Jun-04 - 03:39 AM
Thread Name: War Mongering Songs
Subject: RE: War Mongering Songs
I shall have to look up the Horst Wessels Lied. There was a very good documentary about the song on German TV a year or so ago. It turned out that Horst Wessels was no more than yob (gay as it happened - although that bit was not so talked up by the NS) - who died as the result of a brawl. From what I can remember the song was crap. It is interesting just what tedious drivel some of these pro war ditties are. I guess it's the songwriting equivalent of McGonagall's poetry.