Deutsches Liedes

Marching music and soldier's songs have been an integral part of every soldier's life for centuries most especially for the Germans. Marches were used to and from battles. Songs were used to measure and boost morale; express feelings of joy and homesickness; to show patriotism; and of course, to express hopes & dreams about the girl waiting back home.

Just one reminder,please:those who cannot refrain themselves on calling such period songs as "nazi propaganda" are advised to think twice.Most of the Wehrmacht music was already there when war started,and still are deep embedded in the current German folk & historic music,and songs such as,say,"Lili Marleen" is still treasured not for its (obvious) meaning of soldiering,but for its charm it renders to German folk.

My point?The songs here are not displayed as Nazi propaganda,nor were they collected and uploaded by me to this purpose or in support of NSDAP or any other doctrine or / and ideology.They are a piece of history,and a part of an unclear and sometimes muddy past which some of us try to understand!Thank you!