Heuberg song

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The song of the Heuberger, or Heuberg song for short , was created in 1933 by prisoners of the Heuberg concentration camp near Stetten on the cold market in the Swabian Alb . Mainly political opponents of the Nazi regime from southwest Germany were held prisoner in this camp .

Origin and meaning

The communist prisoner (March to July) Albert Geiger from Donzdorf was suspected by the political police of being the author of the Heuber link , but he denied his authorship. The song was sung to the tune of the Russian folk song " Stenka Rasin ". When the approx. 200 Heuberg prisoners were transferred to the Oberer Kuhberg concentration camp in December 1933 , the song also got there. It is therefore to be assumed that it was sung there too. After the liberation in 1945, various orally transmitted text versions of former Heuberg and Kuhberg prisoners were documented. The Heuber link is considered the "anthem" of the Württemberg concentration camp survivors. In contrast to most of the other early concentration camp songs, the Heuberg song has a “revolutionary character” and openly threatens the Nazis with revenge.

text

On the rough heights of the Heuberg
Tightly spanned with barbed wire,
Is the camp of the Marxists
Banished by fascism.
Human rights are lost
And there are no complaints.
Instead of meat there is only bones
Good food would be poison.
We want to become people
so far we haven't been
because in every prisoner's heart
vengeance grows the strongest poison.
But freedom is coming again -
Then, SA man be careful!
Red Guards will win
call for the final battle.
Red flags will fly
In this camp too!
Then SA does not have the weapons,
but only the workman!

Note: A second version comprises six verses and some deviations in the text and was printed in Fackler: “Des Camp's Voice” p. 278, note 461.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Oberschulamt Tübingen: "Württembergisches Schutzhaftlager Ulm". An early concentration camp under National Socialism (1933-1935) Information and tools for visiting the Ulm concentration camp memorial with schoolchildren ( Memento of the original from December 14, 2014 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. , 2004, ISBN 3-9805396-6-0 , p. 95. (PDF; 4.9 MB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / dzokulm.telebus.de
  2. ^ Nils Grosch, Max Matter: Song and Popular Culture / Song and Popular Culture. Waxmann Verlag, 2001, ISBN 3-8309-1235-8 , p. 185.

literature

  • Klaus Drobisch , Günther Wieland : System of the Nazi concentration camps: 1933–1939. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-05-000823-7 , p. 155.
  • Guido Fackler : The camp's voice. Music in the concentration camp. Everyday life and prisoner culture in the concentration camps from 1933 to 1936. With a description of the further development up to 1945. Diss. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2000, ISBN 3-86108-759-6 .
  • Thomas Friz, Erich Schmeckenbecher: A farmer wants to get up early - 222 folk songs. Verlag 'plans', Dortmund 1979, p. 391 (text and sheet music).

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