Thanks for all your contributions. This thread made me think a lot about music, politics, history, and me.

One day, if I have too much time, I'll try to write an outline of German history and its relation to folksong, from the Middle ages, through the Burschenschaften, the Wandervögel, and Hitler to today. Why all the originally true feelings of national pride and comradeship always were usurped by the extreme right to end in disaster and why the left has always had difficulties with (not only) the word 'national' even in such a context as 'national football team'.

I guess that's so ambitious that I'll have to wait until retirement.

Wolfgang