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Not sure Germans would necessarily like their National Anthem being referred to as "that classic Nazi ditty", but still....
by Byron
...and told his employees to sing that classic Nazi ditty "Deutschland über Alles
Posted: 20:29 Apr 23 2004
Dirty Des puts his foot in it
Note: link contains language that might offend
Richard "Dirty" Desmond, porn baron and part-time owner of the Express Newspaper Group, got a wee bit excitable with the managers of the Telegraph Group, which is up for sale to a German company after the previous owner, Conrad Black, resigined over "financial irregularities". In a turn worthy of Basil Fawlty, he goose-stepped through their jointly-owned London print works and told his employees to sing that classic Nazi ditty "Deutschland über Alles". (I prefer the cover myself.)
Not that you'd know it from reading today's Daily Express, which was much too busy explaining its Pauline conversion to the Tories to bother reporting a little thing like that.
Truly a match made in
Richard "Dirty" Desmond, porn baron and part-time owner of the Express Newspaper Group, got a wee bit excitable with the managers of the Telegraph Group, which is up for sale to a German company after the previous owner, Conrad Black, resigined over "financial irregularities". In a turn worthy of Basil Fawlty, he goose-stepped through their jointly-owned London print works and told his employees to sing that classic Nazi ditty "Deutschland über Alles". (I prefer the cover myself.)
Not that you'd know it from reading today's Daily Express, which was much too busy explaining its Pauline conversion to the Tories to bother reporting a little thing like that.
Truly a match made in
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Posted: 20:29 Apr 23 2004 
Don't shoot the messenger now.
According to widsom of google, "Deutchlandslied" is the current German national anthem, but seems it's derived from "Deutschland über Alles", the first verse of which the Nazis apparently pinched and tacked onto a drinking song.
As the man said, not a lot of people know that!
So now it has to be asked, how does Richard Desmond know the Nazi cover version?
After several minutes of the onslaught, Mr Deedes and his colleagues decided to leave the meeting, prompting Mr Desmond to start goose-stepping, much like Basil Fawlty, and tell Express executives to sing the Nazi anthem "Deutschland über Alles" and perform Sieg Heil salutes.
According to widsom of google, "Deutchlandslied" is the current German national anthem, but seems it's derived from "Deutschland über Alles", the first verse of which the Nazis apparently pinched and tacked onto a drinking song.
As the man said, not a lot of people know that!
So now it has to be asked, how does Richard Desmond know the Nazi cover version?
Posted: 20:42 Apr 23 2004 
I know far too much about "Deutschland Uber Alles", because I had to study Haydn's "Emperor Quartet" for my Bardic Order Exams.
So.
It was written originally as a hymn by Joseph Haydn, in the form of theme and variations for String Quartet, as part of the Opus 70 in C major (3rd movement). It is also known in the English Hymnal as the tune "Austria". It is a setting of the words "Gott Erhaltet Franz Den Kaiser" (God save Kaiser Franz) - little known and utterly useless fact is that the first notes of the tune (in their German names) spell out G - E - F - K (the initials of the title).
After that it was adopted as the German National Anthem, much later.
The official anthem of the NSDAP is the "Horst Wessel Lied", which was scarily described on a website I saw (which plays the tune) as a "Well-known Soldiers' song"....
I'd post the link, as it is fascinating, but I don't know whether it breaks site rules or something
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So.
It was written originally as a hymn by Joseph Haydn, in the form of theme and variations for String Quartet, as part of the Opus 70 in C major (3rd movement). It is also known in the English Hymnal as the tune "Austria". It is a setting of the words "Gott Erhaltet Franz Den Kaiser" (God save Kaiser Franz) - little known and utterly useless fact is that the first notes of the tune (in their German names) spell out G - E - F - K (the initials of the title).
After that it was adopted as the German National Anthem, much later.
The official anthem of the NSDAP is the "Horst Wessel Lied", which was scarily described on a website I saw (which plays the tune) as a "Well-known Soldiers' song"....
I'd post the link, as it is fascinating, but I don't know whether it breaks site rules or something
This was brought to you by the Ministry Of Utterly Useless Trivia!!
Posted: 17:33 Apr 24 2004 We're game for anything short of goats.
by Bee
I'd post the link, as it is fascinating, but I don't know whether it breaks site rules or something
Post it up.
Posted: 17:38 Apr 24 2004
Byron
We're up for anything short of goats
Um... *pinks* well, ok...
Yet again my inability to do the "clicky here" thing lands me in trouble, but the link is :
www.anesi.com/east/horstw.htm
It is actually quite a nice tune, if you like martial machy music played by nice men in uniforms; but the lyrics are something scary...
And to add to my earlier post - I should like to point out that I didn't think a porn baron would be that erudite...
We're up for anything short of goats
Um... *pinks* well, ok...
Yet again my inability to do the "clicky here" thing lands me in trouble, but the link is :
www.anesi.com/east/horstw.htm
It is actually quite a nice tune, if you like martial machy music played by nice men in uniforms; but the lyrics are something scary...
And to add to my earlier post - I should like to point out that I didn't think a porn baron would be that erudite...
Posted: 22:16 Apr 24 2004