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National Anthem Shortened -
June 25th 2010, 05:00 PM
Well, I have been meaning to mention this for awhile, but never got the chance too. Not too long ago they shortened the German National anthem, Deutschland Uber Alles, by taking out the first two Stanza, meaning now the song doesn't even contain the words "Deutschland Uber Alles". The original (and much better) anthem can be viewed here with English and German subtitles, and the modern one only includes the last Stanza. What do you think of stripping the first two stanza off of it, I personally enjoyed them very much.
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Re: National Anthem Shortened -
June 25th 2010, 06:05 PM
Why was it shorten? I mean did it offend many people or what was the deal?
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June 25th 2010, 07:00 PM
It seems "Deutschland Uber Alles" or in English "Germany over all" was too "Nazi-like".
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June 25th 2010, 07:30 PM
That's stupid D= It's like political correctness to the extreme, but then again I don't know enough about the matter to make a justified claim =/
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June 25th 2010, 07:38 PM
Well I have not put much thought into the Germany anthem but what I understand is that they took away the "chores" of the anthem didn't they? Are they planning on replacing words or not?
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Re: National Anthem Shortened -
June 25th 2010, 07:52 PM
I've always understood the first stanza to refer to a united Germany as it was back in the time of unification and Bismarck.
Then again it also refers to the Meuse and Memel IIRC both of which are well outside modern Germany. Also the first stanza was used verbatim by the Nazis immediately followed by the Horst Wessel Leid. After 1945 it was decided that it was too nationalist and was dropped in favour of the third stanza. While we're on national anthems it's rare to hear the full version of God Save the Queen usually on the first stanza is heard |
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June 25th 2010, 09:17 PM
No they removed the first 2/3rds of the song completely, ergh!
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June 27th 2010, 04:42 AM
Since I can understand German, I can see why they changed it, from an outsiders pov. It's too 'Germany is better than you" except for the last stanza that isn't propaganda. I like the last stanza, and I think it's fine if they cut out the first two. It is their anthem, after all.
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June 27th 2010, 09:23 AM
What was bad about the second stanza?
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June 27th 2010, 09:39 PM
I don't think that changing the anthem is anything you could argue that Germany needed to do - most countries have preachy "We're awesome" anthems, after all - but if they decided to make their anthem friendlier then more power to them.
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June 28th 2010, 01:32 AM
They should have changed it, not remove completely. "Germany over all" is definitely nazi-supremist. But they could simply change a little to "Germany WITH all" or something lol
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