Adolf Hitler ist unser Retter, unser Held [a fictional song?]

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Adolf Hitler ist unser Retter, unser Held [a fictional song?]

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Post by commiecrusher » 23 Jan 2009, 02:24

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"Adolf Hitler is our savior, our hero.
He is the noblest being in the whole wide world.
For Hitler we live,
For Hitler we die.
Our Hitler is our Lord,
Who rules a brave new world."

Anyone know the name, or an mp3 to listen to it?

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Post by HaEn » 28 Jan 2009, 03:19

Never heard of it. Did it lose something in the translation ?
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Post by commiecrusher » 29 Jan 2009, 22:34

Not sure, saw it on a documentary...

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Post by Ivan Ž. » 30 Jan 2015, 17:16

In 1941, the Oxford University Press published a book called "Education for Death", written by Gregor Ziemer, former headmaster of the American Colony School in Berlin (who fled Germany in 1939). In his book, Ziemer wrote:
Gregor Ziemer wrote:Then came the final song. The melody sounded familiar. I realized the boys had adopted and adapted the tune of Fridericus Rex, the defiant old military march of Frederick the Great. I wrote down the words: Adolf Hitler is our savior, our hero. He is the noblest being in the whole wide world. For Hitler we live, for Hitler we die. Our Hitler is our Lord, who rules a brave new world.
In 1942, the song from Ziemer's book was used in the Allied propaganda film "Prelude to War", of the "Why We Fight" series. The scene in question shows kids in a classroom filled with swastika flags, with their right arms raised, singing the song, to the melody of "Fridericus Rex". The painting seen on the classroom wall is the one Allies particularly liked using in their anti-Nazi propaganda: Hitler as a knight in shiny armour on a horse, holding a flag. Seen behind the children is an incorrect quote from "Es zittern die morschen Knochen" - "Heute gehört uns Deutschland..." - also typical for Allied propaganda (reminder: "da hört" is correct).

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Almost an identical scene (without the song) also appears in Disney's cartoon "Education for Death" (1943, based on Ziemer's 1941 book), together with the same painting of "knight Hitler" on a horse.

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Ziemer's book was also used for another 1943 anti-Nazi propaganda movie, called "Hitler's Children". The book (including the part with the song) was also quoted during the Nuremberg Trials.

So, the info on the song originates from a (questionable) memoir of one person, Gregor Ziemer, whose book served as an Allied propaganda tool. And how true his text was - we cannot really be sure. But I have never heard of another period source mentioning such a song, except for Ziemer, nor have I heard of a similar Third Reich song, with such cheesy (pathetic) lyrics. The former HJ leader von Schirach commented during the Nuremberg Trials that Ziemer's book had "more importance as propaganda than as an impartial judgment", that "all the annual slogans of the Hitler Youth were reproduced falsely" and that "Gregor Ziemer nevertheless swore to the correctness of his statement".

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Ivan

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