A young people stand up

A young people stands up was a propaganda song of the Hitler Youth (HJ). The song, composed by Werner Altendorf , was first published in 1935. It is used by the extreme right in Germany to the present day .

history

The song, presumably composed in 1934, was first published in 1935 in the song collection A young people stands up. Kampflieder published by Ludwig Voggenreiter Verlag , which compiles fourteen Altendorf songs. It quickly found its way into the songs of the HJ and the NSDAP , and as early as 1936 it was one of the HJ's compulsory songs . By 1940 it was included in almost all school songbooks and also found its way into various soldier songbooks.

After the Second World War, the song was initially mainly of right youth organizations such as the Youth League eagle , the Viking Youth and the Bund Heimattreuer youth sung before starting about 1970, it became an important identification song of the National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD) and later the camaraderie scene was .

Although the song in Germany is now counted among the marks of unconstitutional organizations according to § 86a StGB by some constitutional protection authorities , it was still used by the NPD in the state elections in Hesse in 2008 in an election commercial. Singing the song during a demonstration by the right-wing scene was fined € 600 in 2011; in the grounds of the judgment it was said that “A young people stand up” in a row with the Horst Wessel song .

content

In terms of content, the song, held in march , transports the communal ideology of National Socialism . Already the beginning of the first verse mentions the keyword of the song "young", which can also be found in the chorus . In addition to the literal meaning of “young” as a counterpoint to the supposedly immobile old age, youth is also conjured up as an irrational value: Young is whoever feels young. The second stanza calls for the creation of a soldierly national community through the violent destruction of class barriers, while the third makes a distinction against those who think differently, to whom the "loyalty [... of] young soldiers" is contrasted. The refrain takes up the death of the soldiers in the First World War as well as the " National Socialist martyrs " as a model for the singers.

literature

• Günter Hartung: Analysis of a Fascist Song . In: Scientific journal Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Society and Linguistics Series 23 (1974), no. 6, pp. 47-64.
• Uwe-Karsten Ketelsen: Literature and the Third Reich . SH-Verlag, Vierow bei Greifswald 1994 (2nd edition), ISBN 3-89498-012-5 , pp. 349-356

Web links

• publikative.org : Dossier about the (...) song of the Hitler Youth "A young people stands up" (PDF; 208 kB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ including State Office for the Protection of the Constitution Brandenburg (ed.): Symbols and characteristics of right-wing extremism . Potsdam 2007, p. 21 ( Online (PDF; 978 kB) [accessed on February 4, 2016]). Online ( Memento of the original from January 16, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Maurice Reisinger: "A young people stand up": Nazi music as election advertising. In: haGalil . January 6, 2008, accessed November 22, 2011 . 
3. ↑ A right song costs 600 euros. In: Badische Zeitung . September 9, 2011, accessed November 22, 2011 .