[Topic renamed by the host, Ivan Ž.]
Watching Europa Europa, the HJ was singing something about "insert the knives in jewish bone and flesh"... I asked someone and they said this was the Horst Wessel song. Which one is it?
Wetzt die langen Messer
The oldest known source mentioning such a song is a post-WWII (1946) book entitled "Kreuz und Hakenkreuz", written by theologian and resistance fighter Johann(es) Neuhäusler. In his book, on pp. 316-317, Neuhäusler claims that the song was sang at a field training course of the SA University Office for university students in Memmingen, in late May 1934:
The song was apparently a cover of the so-called "Heckerlied", a German revolutionary song referring to the revolutions of 1848/49. However, there seems to be a lack of period info on that song as well; all sources that I've found mentioning it are also post-WWII.
According to former Soviet spy Whittaker Chambers, a similar song was sung by the German Communists in Berlin back in 1923. The lyrics he remembered hearing, from his book "Cold Friday" (1964), p. 136:1. Wetzt die langen Messer
auf dem Bürgersteig!
Laßt die Messer flutschen
in den Judenleib!
Blut muß fließen knüppelhageldick,
wir scheißen auf die Freiheit der Judenrepublik.
Kommt einst die Stunde der Vergeltung,
sind wir zu jedem Massenmord bereit.
2. Hoch die Hohenzollern
am Laternenpfahl!
Laßt die Hunde baumeln,
bis sie runterfalln!
Blut muß fließen...
3. In der Synagoge
hängt ein schwarzes Schwein.
In die Parlamente
schmeißt 'ne Handgranate rein!
Blut muß fließen...
4. Reißt die Konkubine
aus dem Fürstenbett,
schmiert die Guillotine
mit dem Judenfett!
Blut muß fließen...
(Compare to the 4th strophe in Neuhäusler's book.)Schmier die Guillotine, schmier die Guillotine,
schmier die Guillotine mit Tyrannenfett.
Blut muss fliessen, Blut muss fliessen,
Blut, Blut, Blut.
The song was apparently a cover of the so-called "Heckerlied", a German revolutionary song referring to the revolutions of 1848/49. However, there seems to be a lack of period info on that song as well; all sources that I've found mentioning it are also post-WWII.