"Wenn Die Soldaten" (East German Version) - East German Communist Song

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Thanks to Honest Anthems: / channel for helping me translate!
Wenn Die Soldaten is a traditional German military march. This version emerged during the DDR and has heavy anti-west themes, with references to nuclear holocaust and fighting to the death against the United States.
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These songs are for educational purposes and do not reflect my beliefs or are meant to further a political agenda.
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[@marcosstolfi7418]

The virgin hydrogen bomb vs. The chad wasserstoffmelonen

[@charlesjakesamadan4008]

600+ likes yet none Comments *Imma break that*

[@Abdisa-sj2fq]

@@charlesjakesamadan4008 👎

[@cosita7479]

Lol

[@Chujoi0]

@@charlesjakesamadan4008 👎🏿👎🏾👎🏽👎🏼👎🏻👎

[@hoxhacat8195]

@@Chujoi0 Good, ethnic diversity, very good!

[@chickensheet6582]

Nobody East Germany : WASSERSTOFFMELONEN

[@rafaelokamura]

Plus one F

[@mav2011]

Yeah, German needs a lot of sounding-out. Wass-er-stoff-melonen.

[@rafaelokamura]

How WW3 Start American: hm... I like watermelon East Germans and Soviets: so eat this.

[@jeegunugger1871]

Bus stop melanin

[@talhahtaco2035]

Nobady East germany: Hydrogen *MELON*

[@chazza1537]

The song sounds so happy but the lyrics are so grim...

[@sdivine13]

Waymen, you're not allowed here

[@rafaelokamura]

The 1st version is more happy

[@mari0664]

Wrong place my gracious desert fox

[@zeemer7040]

the imperial/nazi version is much happier and brighter than this.

[@El_Presidente_5337]

@my mom As a German I can confirm it. It doen't sound like a marching song at all.

[@Cesar1492Enjoyer]

I love how it starts off so peaceful and then they start singing about WWIII.

[@jiyeshi9835]

fur weltkrieg drei trainieren

[@DanielKonate]

The song is about preventing the world from WWIII - Sorry you didn't get that.

[@samernammari8785]

@@DanielKonate I agree. They accused the West of trying to provoke a WWIII, not the Warsaw Pact.

[@Thesngian]

Yeah because it's the cold war and people were afraid of a potential WW3. This song describes the horrors of such a war to say it should be avoided.

[@guilhermelisboa6392]

Und kein Soldaten hier durch die Stadt marschiert, FÜR U.S.A ZUM HELDENTOD!

[@mxcxxl8589]

German parents: Our kid's goin to say his first words German kid: W... Wa... Wasserstoffmelonen!

[@simplemusketeer7421]

ハンターhunter pffft Ok Ngl that actually made me laugh as I was looking through the comments XD

[@imperialnov4109]

@@simplemusketeer7421 Same

[@chicongodetraq1946]

Actually it would be: Alluh Akbar

[@spdfatomicstructure]

Pretty much summed up the entirety of the 1949-89 period

[@Chujoi0]

@Денег нет, но вы держитесь !1!1!!1!1!1! huhuuu I don't like something so I will declare it everywhere because my will is supreme

[@polga9764]

This song makes me feel very uneasy

[@user-jk6jn9cl6x]

Yea,but I still love this song *:v*

[@williammangelsen3795]

I Believe that was Intentional.

[@luismedina5792]

I only feel that caz theres still a National Socialist under there

[@johanrod6239]

HAHHAHAHA

[@jeegunugger1871]

Milllenial soyboy

[@CrapeCraft]

I'm kind of shocked how grim the lyrics are

[@veisbeer5071]

Germans ey

[@hanswurst-re7df]

@Vulture 1943 lmao it really isnt

[@KATIUSHKACHILE]

@Asad Babil This is not the original song. This is creepy!

[@mikesgoodmann9349]

@Gregory Johnson It's quite strongly implied.

[@asianlifter]

Gregory Johnson It talks about bombardments.

[@NormalChannel95]

This is like Pumped Up Kicks but way more terrifying.

[@jiyeshi9835]

wAsSeRsTofFmEloNeN

[@capitalh6490]

D:

[@EperogiLimousine]

Wasserstoffmelonen though

[@hyperborea8511]

0:50 wasserstoffmelonen button

[@halavich9672]

Tanks dud

[@loxres4640]

I made a sound button: www.myinstants.com/instant/wasserstofmelonen-30952/

[@hyperborea8511]

@@loxres4640 👍👍👍

[@ananddhanola4623]

@@loxres4640 lol

[@lemisanthrope8153]

Loxres Lmao ahahahah

[@user-vs6oe8fl3m]

The guy singing this must be Ernst Busch!

[@KameradKorona]

Yep, Ernst Bush 1953

[@johannapfelburg6286]

Who else but him for a song such as this?

[@jamesflynn6827]

This guy was such a radical left wing even by Ddr Standards

[@user-vs6oe8fl3m]

@Slavic Doggo Ernst Busch was based

[@user-vs6oe8fl3m]

@Slavic Doggo About what?

[@chrisbeswick5998]

When a kindergarten is trying to explain something bad

[@johanrod6239]

But why, Becuase, but why because.

[@Maulstrum97]

@Kingdom Of Yugoslavia Countryball wouldn't be if americans didn't support the soviets

[@thetaticalpeng5553]

How cartoons try to explain and sing stuff that’s evil

[@lordcawdorofmordor2549]

@@Maulstrum97 And in turn the US would never have to if the Allies hadn't taken the fascist threat seriously

[@Maulstrum97]

@@lordcawdorofmordor2549 there wasn't any more of a fascist threat then an imperial threat from any other country. At the time the right of conquest was legal. It was just to settle a score against germany. It could have been reduced to a regional war rather then a world war however the allies insisted on war against germany as both the germans and soviets violated the allied guaranteed sovereignty of poland but the allies didn't declare war on the soviets. Multiple peace offers were extended by germany all were shot down by the allies. The standards and international law of the time was very different then modern times which many forget when looking back at historical events.

[@cadenumansky6375]

Very interesting how they the DDR used this old German war song to kind of "poke fun" at old German "happy war" ideas.

[@odinkato4426]

Its an anti america song

[@strobbedelutz]

@Buttrape Bill it was

[@michelsand5399]

Rightfully so.

[@paulbrower4265]

@Homo Erectus ...but the DDR aped old Prussian militarism in style. That was one way to show that the DDR really was German, to contrast with the Americanized Bundeswehr, and perhaps to give people with conservative values an outlet in the "National People's Army". The DDR did not want to be seen as aping the Red Army. So even if the army of the DDR served the defense of "socialism" it could offer continuity of old German traditions (Nazism of course rejected).

[@yottadrive]

@@paulbrower4265 Tradition was not important for Soviet Union, unless for political aplications. East Germany was soo poor that they needed to use old Nazi uniforms. If they cared for tradition, Stalin would respect Tito's choice for a independent Yugoslavia. But he didn't, and instead, sent spys to try to kill Tito.

[@Can_ix]

Nobody: Germans: WASSERSTOFFMELONEN Also Germans: BLITZATOMISIEREN

[@zeppelinwarscommunity9969]

Melonen

[@ASDF-ct1wc]

and then it turned into a giant hot mushroom

[@metelmax8597]

@@infochan6096 what they literally start again just that you add "one hundred and" before

[@infochan6096]

@@metelmax8597 i dont know English

[@hoxhacat8195]

Americans: "lemon grenade"

[@randomstupiddude3565]

Who train for WWIII! Me: (Gathering concerns)

[@lilripeati4347]

We gotta bring the gdr back 👀

[@Tundra1919]

Jesus this is dark

[@abcdefghijkllmnopqrst]

not as much as your ideology

[@abcdefghijkllmnopqrst]

@my mom I'm an atheist. Go steal someone's money, that's what communism does.

[@doritos5767]

@Vulture 1943 dont worry since he's atheist isis coming for him.

[@abcdefghijkllmnopqrst]

@my mom HAHAHAHA even better, iss scheiße nazi

[@weplaygameforwin9326]

Fucking EU NA always bring fucking religion in the comments. im atheist, im Muslim, im Christian, im Jews, im buddha. No matter what your religion, your just a idiot ppl who bring religion to a problem.

[@josephstalin6549]

When you lose 2 world wars and your nation is charged up between 2 superpowers

[@wommyu]

Sigh

[@Maulstrum97]

Split in half between two occupies both wanting to kill each other

[@Maulstrum97]

@@TonyBustaroni one major hole in that entire thing the very end they only avoided war because of nuclear annihilation. Not because they were scared of each other. Both were threats to each other and neither had the ability to remove each other because of nukes.

[@maxloris5931]

Stalin wanted to trasform the war in Korea in WW3

[@hoxhacat8195]

@@TonyBustaroni "Didn't want Germany communist", he wanted the world to be communist as we are internationalists and Communism is a global, international idea. Communism involves a stateless, classless, moneyless society with the means of production held in common. The nations which you would most likely classify as having featured or established "Communism" were only Socialist, most of the time, State-Socialist, Marxist-Leninist nations which were merely in the transitory stage between Capitalism and Communism. Socialism has done many good things such as improve literacy, healthcare, education, housing, standards of living, qualities of life, increased lifespan such as in China, turned feudal backwaters into economic superpowers, won the Second World War, industrialized nations, increased rights for minorities and women, improved democracy, etc. According to the study from 1986 by S Ceresto and H Waitzkin PhD called "Capitalism, Socialism, and the Physical Quality of Life" given equal levels of economic development, Socialist nations on average had higher standards of living than Capitalist nations, also, according to that same study, given equal levels of economic development, Socialist nations had higher levels of caloric intake, meaning contrary to popular belief, people in socialist nations actually eat more food than capitalist ones. Socialism has evidently greatly increased prosperity. We live in a society where greed is heavily related to and influenced by the mode of production and property relations, human nature changes, changes all the time due to certain material conditions. People are greedy under capitalism because capitalism makes you have to, you have to outcompete your competitors if you're a business owner, you have to outcompete your co-workers if you're a worker, etc. If you went back in the feudal time period and told them about capitalism they most likely would've laughed at you, so of course you laugh at me telling you about one of the next stages of societal development after socialism, how do I know capitalism isn't the last stage and that socialism and eventually communism WILL replace it, well due to contradictions within capitalist society whether they are class or otherwise, we analyse these contradictions through what is known as dialectical materialism. History is primarily influenced by class struggle, class divide, and conflict between these classes bourgeois or proletarian. "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles" - Karl Marx

[@MarshalSheyth]

This is the edgy chaos version of wenn die soldaten

[@earthspace8666]

More realistic than the original

[@mav2011]

my mom Nothing here sounded Communist to me

[@Leguan-tj9uj]

@@earthspace8666 In the case of the DDR rather more hyprocritical.

[@Leguan-tj9uj]

@@TonyBustaroni The SED incessantly sounded off about freedom and justice and yet there were people imprisoned and even executed for political "crimes". No contradiction for you?

[@Giovanni-mj9uj]

German language really does have a word for everything

[@NotraceOfRay]

We put nouns together. Wasser-Stoff-Melonen Wasser = Water Stoff = stuff/fabric Melonen = Melons Wasserstoff = hydrogen Another example: Rind-fleisch-etikettierungs-übertragungs-gesetz

[@nekrophilervorderasiate7092]

@@NotraceOfRay sehr interessant

[@TheNewOrder-DaysOfConflict]

@@NotraceOfRay Watermelon Bomb...noice :v

[@EperogiLimousine]

@@NotraceOfRay water sutff because hydrogen is the stuff in water

[@Zen-rw2fz]

Kind of surprised so many people are creeped from this, the real war was way worse than what this song makes it out to be.

[@yep9462]

I don't know how people find a song like this that talked about the reality of nuclear war worse than the original, which was an upbeat song celebrating the same German soldiers who rushed off to ultimately die for nothing in two world wars. Maybe it's because they're people living in comfortable homes who love the aesthetics and music of war but have never had to know what the reality looked like firsthand, unlike Busch and millions of other Europeans east and west who lived through it. So they don't completely understand the dissonance of 'happy' war songs.

[@redgreekrevolution]

"The bomb rain brings a dollar blessing" Since the 1989 counterrevolution these lyrics have been proven true.

[@benjamin_aaron]

Контрреволюция там произошла раньше 1989. А в 1989 она дошла до своего логического конца (окончательное разрушение завоеваний рабочего класса).

[@KarlHeinzBellmann]

Schön, wenn die Ami da sind! Denn dann kracht es "WELTWEIT"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@lamaking3002]

Because communism never started a war or a genocide.. oh wait it did.. and it was worse than capitalism and sometimes even worse than fascism.

[@VoivodApple_2629]

UN : All right we need to make nuclear weapons more scary. Thoughts? east Germany: *B L I T Z A T O M I S I E R E N*

[@cant-kb8lm]

"Mmm, melon" "WAIT DON'T TOUCH IT, THAT'S A HYDROGEN BO-"

[@The_Lunch_Man]

Jesus Christ this is the darkest version of this song I’ve ever heard.

[@warsawpact1548]

It's also the truest version of this song you'll ever hear

[@The_Lunch_Man]

Warsaw Pact Socialist that’s fair. War isn’t what the old lyrics said it was.

[@Chujoi0]

Sap , guys like you are so not funny , that nobody even replies to you.

[@clockfm9970]

@@warsawpact1548 Hydrogen Melons is realism?

[@redzeitgeist854]

@Sap lol no wignat

[@sukhoisu-24fencer3]

And world war 3 never came.

[@dornierdo1724]

@kurt Knispel Just wait for it.

[@sukhoisu-24fencer3]

@@dornierdo1724 why wait?

[@ravishankaruday6884]

@@dornierdo1724 Well east Germany is already irrelevant

[@dornierdo1724]

@The Wehrmacht General I’m not talking about East Germany, I’m talking about World War III.

[@haltair4015]

@@dornierdo1724 Leave them, they won't understand

[@KilroyWasHere1941]

Christ, I was not expecting this to be as grim as it is. I thought it’d be like the original, but with a more pleasant overall theme that the commies would use to emphasize their ideology. However, considering the global circumstances of the time period along with East Germany’s political & military situation, the morbid lyrics make sense.

[@KameradKorona]

Yeah, and the children in the choir make it feel pretty dystopian. That's what makes it interesting though

[@teslashark]

East Germany: The biggest and meanest among the Eastern Bloc's three weirdos (with Romania and Albania)

[@user-vs6oe8fl3m]

@@KameradKorona Thx for the uploads!

[@mao6729]

@@KameradKorona yeah it is really much more grim than expected my comrade

[@Shizu4189]

@@KameradKorona It Is Pretty Grim...Gotta Nice Ring To It Though.

[@ImperialTre]

This is eerily happy and existential. Sounds like something in a horror drama about the impending doom of nuclear warfare with a slight chance of melons

[@comradecracker447]

I feel like that could not be anything closer to what actually happened in history and the political worries at the time...

[@utahraptor4729874]

Holy shit this must have been a rare find.

[@TheGamerAtticus]

This song is just like Pumped up kicks, it’s sounds normal at first until you listen to the lyrics.

[@oxvar3333]

Makes me want a fallout game in DDR

[@riploljustforfu9929]

Metro 2033 is the closest thing you can get to that.

[@muha0644]

0:33 small correction: Landser should be translated as "infantryman" or "foot-soldier"

[@AmatuerAstronomer2014]

Thank you so much for uploading this, it’s a really good song

[@uberplatinum1]

Based on the production of this song I don't believe this is an official East German version of Wenn die Soldaten for 2 major reasons. For one, it gravely contradicts the tone of other East German military songs which were usually not "protesty" like this song is. They were usually Nationalistic in tone and didn't make reference to Western nations. 2. The male vocals sound like they belong to Ernst Busch. A Communist singer/actor who usually made songs independently from the state. He wrote and covered protest songs as well as singing his own versions of Communist anthems. My guess is that this is a version he made in protest to Western aggression during the Cold War, rather than a state sanctioned song.

[@mauer594]

Der Heimliche Aufmarsch would disagree

[@ichigo9919]

@@mauer594 ah Der Heimliche Aufmarsch, one of two NATO disstracks made by the GDR (other being Der Offene Aufmarsch)

[@user-ec7lt1wc3l]

@@ichigo9919 those are pretty much the same

[@paulbrower4265]

1. The intended audience may have been NATO countries through communist or fellow-traveler 'peace' movements. It sounds as if a warning to peoples in NATO countries, including the Bundesrepublik, that their governments were intent on invading the Warsaw Pact countries with resulting mass death that could escalate into nuclear war. 2. Ernst Busch was a regime toady. The propaganda exploits children (and propaganda from totalitarian regimes usually do) who will do anything to curry favor with teachers, parents, etc.

[@austinmontgomery117]

A communist working independently from the state? You, sir, have been properly brainwashed.

[@kaaosaf]

It's obviously an anti-war song, fools

[@Tundra1919]

It's an anti american song, I've heard this choir singing official east german songs, and they wouldn't sing anti war parodies

[@raphuscucullatus7845]

@@Tundra1919 I'm sure neither the Americans nor the East Germans wanted _hydrogen melons_ or the _bomb rain_ to drop on them.

[@grenadeX7700]

@@raphuscucullatus7845 You obviously didn't undestand the text of song, they are not singing that they want someone to bomb them, the "soldiers marching through the city" are meant to represent american attack on DDR and the "hydrogen melons" and "bomb rain" are just what they thought americans are going to do to the DDR and rest of communist europe. So yeah not really anti-war, more of "anti-american aggression" song.

[@pettko9384]

Why not anti american?Im with them 🙂

[@rhodesianwojak2095]

@@pettko9384 ayyyyyy

[@realFlamefamm]

0:50 here's your replay button

[@seneca983]

"Durch die toten Städte geistern nur Gespenster." So cheery! :)

[@szubareg7485]

Those lyrics are so grim, the original version was happy one

[@drgojira6044]

I mean... s o v i e t p r o p a g a n d a

[@jensschreckenderhiesigenha144]

@@drgojira6044It's basically an anti war song from people who suffered in 2 WW's but yeah... Totally Soviet Propaganda

[@Zen-rw2fz]

Tbh, this is more realistic, what I find grim is when people try to make war sound like a fun party.

[@riploljustforfu9929]

@@jensschreckenderhiesigenha144 It's about America wanting to bomb Europe with atomic bombs for the sake of profit. It's both anti war, anti American and anti capitalist in general.

[@cantutmez8854]

The original was fake af

[@ryantan2231]

This song is so fucking creepy... down to the instrumentation with that weird clarinet melody before every verse, and the suspended, descending notes in the kids choir singing the opening. It really reflects a time when people truly feared that total annihilation could come at any moment. The happy tone of the song combined with the grim lyrics, with words like ‘Ami-Panzer’, a childish-sounding slang word for (enemy) American tanks. It’s just so creepy.

[@awddfg]

*_The song lyrics are accurate as hell._*

[@comradejosefstalin3097]

Nobody: Brains when you're trying to sleep: WASSERSTOFFMELONEN!!!!!!

[@AK-tr5fi]

wasserstoffmelonen has been explode in dream

[@angevinous]

Prussian Musics : about fatherland Imperial Germany : about soldiers and girls Nazi Germany : War and anti allies propaganda East Germany : WASSERTOFFMELONEN

[@angevinous]

@Fjj Yeah

[@danielmp2085]

The constant rythm changes in this song make me very nervous

[@raiderfox7229]

Kinda the point, considering this is how people felt during the cold war.

[@simplemusketeer7421]

Raider Fox indeed especially when everything went to a all time high in the 80’s and shit went south for the ussr in the 90’s causing its collapse and oddly enough puttin is actually trying to bring a part of the ussr back today

[@raptor_zero9429]

The lyrics are disturbing af but the wasserstoffmelonen killed me hahahahaha

[@UrLocalFemboyAndBoykisser]

West German version: Women open windows, kiss and hug the soldiers East German version: World War III, wasserstoffmelonen, no woman opens the windows, the distress, the death...

[@CDPR2024]

relevant lyrics.

[@yurokoi8829]

True

[@King98HD]

Das Lied ist aktueller als es eigentlich sein sollte

[@Joseph_417]

Wasserstoffmelonen my beloved

[@Giovanni-mj9uj]

The entire DDR was a diss track on NATO

[@zambranojustinraymondb.7342]

I need that version of Lili Marlene at the beginning! Does anyone know if a full version of it exists?

[@vibechecker1994]

no idea. sounds a bit creepy/nostalgic but i need it too

[@ptrd4111]

Tread carefully friend, KZbin is targeting German songs for "hatespeech". Wouldnt want to see your channel deleted too.

[@Tundra1919]

@@staylo4033 lmao

[@Zen-rw2fz]

It's kind of funny how censorship works these days, what is that game where you kill nazis? Oh look it's a swastika! Banned! Oh it's old sounding german song, must be something nazi related!

[@autonomas8083]

I lost it when he said “Pfeift auf Truman”

[@joinusforfreedomfromtheopp8872]

The dislikes are from the Ami-Panzer and wasserstoffmelonen

[@romaaboba8697]

And from bombenregen

[@EperogiLimousine]

In support of the DDR, I will be eating some nice Wasserstoffmelonens

[@onlookerofthings6029]

Germany reunified the wrong way

[@baume7798]

Jesus Christ those lyrics are dark as fuck

[@frankgunold268]

Wenn die Soldaten-German military song[+English translation] kzbin.info/www/bejne/gXeUdGuDoq91ldk

[@pictobloxer5412]

This remix of the original song of the 'west' can be characterized as a bunch of adults teaching grim truths and half-truths to little children about the enemy. "But why?" "because..."

[@Hiliktor]

when your capitalist friend steals your pencil

[@erenyeager3829]

You aren't gonna fool me with anything, I know that is Ernst Busch singing... He is so recognizable XD

[@hans-joachimschmidt6502]

Wir waren noch Soldaten in der NVA. Anständige Uniformen und ein gesunder Geist.

[@brunokirchensittenbach9294]

Da werden erinnerungen wach auf sehr Stolz auf die ehemalige DDR!!!!!!🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹....

[@victorroschin7693]

According to Russian Wikipedia, this is anti-war song, where all terrors, caused by the war, are shown. There is no intentional anti-west propaganda. Here is the English translation of this information: "In the German Democratic Republic there was an anti-war version of this song performed by Ernst Bush with the words: “When soldiers walk around the city, they bring death and misfortune.”" So, the information in bio is not entirely true.

[@osiriscrafter2267]

But the ting is they only sing about the Americans and not about themselves so it is at least an Anti War song with a bit of anti American propaganda

[@victorroschin7693]

​@@osiriscrafter2267 well it was the Cold War period so some propaganda moments were normal back in the days, especially when we are talking about anti-war songs

[@triggerboomer3353]

this makes me want to learn guitar so I can play this

[@Commi-mk9fh]

В песне говорится про военную политику Америки Американцы в комм: ужасная песня А вообще ору с веселой мелодии и такого текста 🤣

[@zerotolerance4146]

Какой то эффект зловещей долины получается чтоли.. Только то что в песне поется может стать явью или уже(

[@bhcgirl7096]

Der Text ist immer noch sehr aktuell!!!

[@KaiserRomanIV]

I think this is Ernst Busch.

[@user-nu9xp6km9g]

I'm sure it's him.

[@simplemusketeer7421]

It is him

[@AlexAlex-ef2ki]

А мне понравилось. Служил в Германии с 91-94 год.

[@amalayperson7208]

0:21 WOAH! World War III has been a predicted from a German song from the soviet Times!

[@trollege9618]

Hello Malay Person

[@FreedomLovingLoyalistOfficial]

I really like the music at the beginning, It sounds like Lili Marleen.

[@Pommezul]

*W A S S E R S T O F F M E L O N E N*

[@zeppelinwarscommunity9969]

My favorite East German song

[@bentos117]

guess, it was clear, that only fear could have resulted in some degree of troop loyalty

[@matroskintv3671]

Долго искал это

[@animationpartisan1983]

Ah the song is good and so is the lyrics (Dont change my mind)

[@pasam-kx1ie]

*pov : you german kid but UR first word :* *W A S S E R S T O F F M E L O N E N* *W I L L* *M A N* *U N S* *S E R V I E R E N*

[@onyxxx26]

DANKE!!! DANKE!!!

[@Victor-xo1qt]

Wie Wahr!!!

[@chadimator]

GDR yes

[@sheperddoggy]

Ernst Busch

[@pickelhaubeimkampf7320]

Das ist also das Gegenstück zu dem herkömmlichen ,,Wenn die Soldaten" Lied...

[@xmurisfurderx]

This song is incredibly clever

[@williammangelsen3795]

I was not Expecting This, in a good way

[@haramstuferot5016]

It sounds for me like it would be ment to be sarcastic but when you look at the time when this was made you know it's really ment like said

[@schokoladenkeks989]

What do you mean?

[@utzius8003]

Why does it seems sarcastic?

[@simplemusketeer7421]

They mean what they said especially when it comes to them saying when the soldiers march through the city again meaning that they want to take Berlin back and cause a war made this very very eerie especially when things were supper unstable back then

[@hanswurst-re7df]

@@simplemusketeer7421 lol what no

[@Thesngian]

@@simplemusketeer7421 No they are saying that war brings misery and is bad. It's literally a pacifist song...

[@lindawenke2079]

This is exactly appropriate for the the overall sentiment and situation of the GDR! ppl that say it doesn’t fit or it’s unnerving or whatever don’t rlly know LOL

[@generalissimospergo9371]

"East Germany doesnt make distracks." East Germany:

[@zirjaeger4037]

East German was socialist, not communist. Similar but not quite the same.

[@utahraptor4729874]

@ElectroPea15 Technically communism is stateless.

[@gabrielferreira-pu6ep]

Kinda interesting the first seconds of this song are the melody of Lili Marleen

[@theamericaneaglepatriot9673]

Let's all appreciate Lili Marlene at the intro.

[@matroskintv3671]

Я русский но это мне очень понравилась

[@inkaz2133]

Oh my god... They predicted our doom.

[@julymonarchy7341]

2:25 I'm going to pronounce USA that way from now on

[@Towarzysz_Orlinski]

I like how they kind of make fun of the song Lilly Marleen in the beginning

[@piusx6254]

Rest of world : hidrogene bombs germany : wartsofmellones

[@zerotolerance4146]

Актуальности, песня не потеряла точно..

[@alexdex6978]

Me when i'm going to the school: this song

[@blitzkrieg9408]

Gotta love the first 10 seconds of Lili Marleen

[@juvitosolange6588]

That man in 0:00 looks like Hugo Weaving

[@ltnagle2492]

Sounds kind of like something you’d hear on your Fallout radio, but in German.

[@koba0798]

amazing

[@veisbeer5071]

still waiting for that WELTKRIEG NUMMER III

[@Koala1203]

Шуми Марица окървавен... ...oh shit, wrong song.

[@utahraptor4729874]

What song?