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Die Fahne Hoch
Ten unidentified entries appear under a title associated with the Nazi party song. The notes examine that association, its propaganda cult and the exclusion enforced in cultural life; no file has been identified as the Horst-Wessel-Lied or any other work.
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- Track 01 (unidentified)3:11
- Track 02 (unidentified)2:31
- Track 03 (unidentified)3:09
- Track 04 (unidentified)3:10
- Track 05 (unidentified)0:55
- Track 06 (unidentified)2:44
- Track 07 (unidentified)2:59
- Track 08 (unidentified)2:59
- Track 09 (unidentified)3:13
- Track 10 (unidentified)3:19
Behind the sound
A party song, political violence and cultural exclusion
The German Historical Museum records Wessel’s text in the Nazi newspaper Der Angriff in 1929. After his death in February 1930, Nazi propaganda turned him into a martyr and made the song a party anthem. The collection-title phrase recalls that history, but supplies no evidence of a particular work or performance among the ten files.
The SA was the Nazi Party’s paramilitary organization. Its members disrupted opponents’ meetings and intimidated Jews, Roma, Communists and Social Democrats. The Wessel cult promoted political violence and self-sacrifice. That coercive setting belongs beside the history of the party’s musical symbols, without implying that an SA ensemble appears in these recordings.
From September 1933, the Reich Culture Chamber regulated cultural life, excluding Jewish people and those judged politically unreliable. Nationalist songs and marches served indoctrination within that unequal system. This history gives the title critical context while leaving the contents, language and uses of all ten entries unidentified.
Presented for critical historical study of propaganda, war and persecution. Nazi and fascist ideology, racial exclusion and violence are not endorsed.