We girls sing
We girls sing was the songbook of the Association of German Girls in National Socialist Germany . The publisher was the Reich Youth Leadership . It was first issued in 1936. It appeared in further revised editions in the following years. In addition to more harmless folk songs, many nationalist and racist songs were also printed in it. In the foreword of the second extended edition from 1938, z. B. unequivocally emphasized that all songs should serve the National Socialist worldview :
"Our song tells of our worldview: the political song on the flag as well as the cheerful sage or a saying while eating - they shape our daily routine, they are an expression of our being."
The book is by subject areas such as driving and resting , from all districts , people and land , labor and state or years running divided. Each section is preceded by quotes from poets and Nazi greats such as Baldur von Schirach , Gerhard Tannenberg and Adolf Hitler himself.
The National Socialist orientation of the book is already illustrated by the section “20. January - Day of the German Revolution ”with a quote from Adolf Hitler celebrating the day of the National Socialist seizure of power in 1933. The following songs such as B. Wake up, you German empire , heart of the peoples, fatherland , now let the flags fly or In some empires the text is then exactly matched to the National Socialist propaganda .
The book was published in paperback format and, with its approx. 200 pages, was well suited for storage in a bag or backpack.
literature
- Gottfried Niedhart and George Broderick: Songs in Politics and Everyday Life of National Socialism , Verlag Lang, 1999, p. 149 ff.
Individual evidence
- ^ Reichsjugendführung (Ed.): We girls sing - song book of the Association of German Girls , second expanded edition, pp. 371-390. Tausend, Georg Kallmeyer Verlag, Wolfenbüttel and Berlin, 1938.
- ^ Reichsjugendführung (Ed.): We girls sing - song book of the Association of German Girls , second expanded edition, pp. 371-390. Tausend, Georg Kallmeyer Verlag, Wolfenbüttel and Berlin, 1938, p. 19.