From Finland to the Black Sea

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The Barbarossa company plans to advance between Finland and the Black Sea

From Finland to the Black Sea (also Russlandlied or Das Lied vom Feldzug im Osten or Vorwärts nach Osten ) is a propaganda song written in 1941 on behalf of the German Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels for the upcoming war against the Soviet Union ( Operation Barbarossa ). Completion was delayed, however, so that it was not broadcast for the first time until a week after the attack began, on June 29, 1941. The song was recorded, among other things, in the special reports of the High Command of the Wehrmacht .

Emergence

The text cannot be clearly assigned to a single author. As a rule, Heinrich Anacker , Hans Tieszler and Hans-Wilhelm Kulenkampff are considered to be joint authors. Joseph Goebbels describes the authorship in his diaries as follows: “The new Russlandlied is finished; a joint effort by Anacker, Tießler [sic] and Kolbe, which I am now putting together and revising. She is then no longer recognizable. A great song. ” According to Goebbels' account, Anacker and Tieszler argued over authorship. Goebbels also added the final verse of the song: “Freedom the goal, victory the banner! Fuehrer orders, we follow you! "

Goebbels commissioned the two composers Herms Niel and Norbert Schultze with the setting : “Niel and Norbert Schulze [sic] each write a melody. It is high time that we want to bring it with us to the first big news. I'll take the best. ” According to Schultze, Goebbels' time limit was 24 hours before it was broadcast on the radio. Goebbels decided on the melody composed by Schultze and also revised it personally by changing harmonies and simplifying the rhythm. The song was recorded on June 29, 1941 with the choirs of the Berlin State Opera and the Deutsche Oper Berlin as well as a large orchestra . At the end of the song the quote from Franz Liszt's Les Preludes, now known as the Russian fanfare, was added.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Marion Gillum, Jörg Wyrschowy (Ed.): Political Music in the Time of National Socialism: A Directory of Sound Documents (1933–1945) . Verlag für Berlin-Brandenburg, Potsdam 2000, ISBN 3-932981-74-X , p. 95.
  2. ↑ a b Axel Jockwer: Popular music in the Third Reich . Dissertation at the University of Konstanz, 2004, p. 229.
  3. ↑ a b Elke Fröhlich (Ed.): The diaries of Joseph Goebbels . Part 1. Saur, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-598-21920-2 , p. 411.
  4. ↑ Hans Sarkowicz: Hitler's artist: The culture in the service of National Socialism . Insel Verlag, 2004, ISBN 3-458-17203-3 , p. 367.
  5. ↑ German Broadcasting Archive : DRA-Info Audio, 2011/1. (PDF; 1.5 MB) p. 42.

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