Bombs on Engelland

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The song Bomben auf Engelland is a German National Socialist propaganda song on the occasion of the Battle of Britain during the Second World War . The text comes from Wilhelm Stöppler , it was set to music by Norbert Schultze .

history

Wilhelm Stöppler originally wrote the song for the “ Poland Campaign ” in 1939 (refrain: bombs on Poland ). At that time it only had stanzas 1 and 3. When the war against France and the United Kingdom ("England") continued after the attack on Poland , bombs on Poland became bombs on England , and two more stanzas were added. The fourth stanza now referred to the deployment of the Wehrmacht's air force in the Polish campaign and its relocation to the western border for the western campaign against "England" and France. The song contains aggressive war ideology.

The song was part of the soundtrack of the Nazi propaganda film or documentary baptism of fire. The film from the deployment of our air force in the Polish campaign. (Germany 1939/1940), which was part of the National Socialist film policy . Stöppler was the producer of the film and one of the two scriptwriters, the other scriptwriter and director of the film was Hans Bertram , and the music was chosen by Norbert Schultze.

The marching song from the film Baptism of Fire was published on shellac record , recorded by the music corps of the Air News Regiment of the Commander-in-Chief of the Air Force under the direction of Chief Music Master Erich Kiesant with quartet singing - on the back of the record Das Frankreichlied. Comrade, we're marching west. Another shellac production was released on the Odeon label , recorded by the music corps of the Berlin-Gatow air base command with a choir under the direction of the staff music master Arno Kühn.

Prohibition

In 1951, the Hessian Minister of the Interior instructed the regional presidents of the state in a public letter to use all police means to prevent the public singing and playing of bombs on Engelland , as "unscrupulous elements publicly heard songs and pieces of music from the National Socialist era Singing and playing tyranny and thereby endangering public security and order insofar as they evoke memories of the National Socialist tyranny or violate the idea of ​​international understanding anchored in the Basic Law and the Hessian constitution and thus politically provoke the constitutional population ”. In addition to bombs on Engelland, other titles were mentioned in the ban : the Horst-Wessel-Lied , the Badenweiler-Marsch , the Engelland-Lied , We want to defeat France victoriously and the people to the gun .

literature

  • Norbert Schultze: With you, Lili Marleen. The memoirs of the composer Norbert Schultze. Atlantis Music Book, Zurich / Mainz 1995, ISBN 3-254-00206-7 , p. 68 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heinz Schreckenberg : Ideology and everyday life in the Third Reich. Lang, Frankfurt am Main / Berlin / Bern / Bruxelles / New York / Oxford / Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-631-51325-9 , p. 419.
  2. ↑ Baptism of Fire. The film from the deployment of our air force in the Polish campaign. In: filmportal.de . Retrieved August 30, 2018.
  3. ↑ baptism of fire in the Internet Movie Database (English)
  4. ↑ Music corps of the Air News Regiment of the Commander in Chief of the Air Force
  5. ↑ DNB 38096953X
  6. ↑ DNB 380969521
  7. ↑ Photo ( memento from February 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) on ytimg.com , the YouTube image website
  8. ^ Ban on National Socialist songs and marches of August 24, 1951 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (Ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1951 no. 36 , p. 518 , item 823 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 4,9 MB ]).