An early printing of the declaration of independence in German

Yesterday, a German Green politician (far left, this guy) has suggested that the German anthem should be translated into and sung in Turkish. I don't mind really but I think that learning a hymn is a good opportunity to learn the language of a land I intend to live in (and its history too). I know Germans who have emigrated to Ireland and don't see the lack of a singable German translation of the Irish anthem an issue of even minor importance.

That Green guy of course has his constituency in mind (one third Turkish) and probably doesn't even know that Turkish is not the most common minority language in Germany. The most common is Russian.

Wolfgang