This little excerpt was a request :) A little announcement before you read the info: The Lied der Deutschen is not forbidden, neither the first nor any other verse of it!!! It´s a myth many people believe in. The part: "Deutschland über alles" doesn´t mean that Germany stands above other nations, you have to see it in the context of the time in 1841. Germany wasn´t an united nation, but a collection of many states and an united fatherland was meant to be above any other political goal of that time. If you continue to listen to the next lines you will see, the author doesn´t want war, violence or superiority against other nations. He demands noble deeds, to be proud of the own culture, women and freedom etc. To me it is a lovely song and I wished all 3 verses would be sung. The "Deutschlandlied" (English: "Song of Germany", German pronunciation: [ˈdɔʏtʃlantˌliːt]; also known as "Das Lied der Deutschen", or "The Song of the Germans"), or part of it, has been the national anthem of Germany since 1922, except in East Germany, whose anthem was "Auferstanden aus Ruinen" ("Risen from Ruins") from 1949 to 1990. Since World War II and the fall of Nazi Germany, only the third stanza has been used as the national anthem. The stanza's beginning, "Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit" ("Unity and Justice and Freedom") is considered the unofficial national motto of Germany, and is inscribed on modern German Army belt buckles and the rims of some German coins. The music is the hymn "Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser", written in 1797 by the Austrian composer Joseph Haydn as an anthem for the birthday of Francis II, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire and later of Austria. In 1841, the German linguist and poet August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben wrote the lyrics of "Das Lied der Deutschen" as a new text for that music, counterposing the national unification of Germany to the eulogy of a monarch, lyrics that were considered revolutionary at the time. The song is also well known by the beginning and refrain of the first stanza, "Deutschland, Deutschland über alles" ("Germany, Germany above all else"), but this has never been its title. The line "Germany, Germany above all else" meant that the most important goal of 19th-century German liberal revolutionaries should be a unified Germany which would overcome loyalties to the local kingdoms, principalities, duchies and palatines (Kleinstaaterei) of then-fragmented Germany. Along with the flag of Germany, it was one of the symbols of the March Revolution of 1848. In order to endorse its republican and liberal tradition, the song was chosen as the national anthem of Germany in 1922, during the Weimar Republic. West Germany adopted the "Deutschlandlied" as its official national anthem in 1952 for similar ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6HNXknv0wU

Text: after a longer New Year's poem, with which Matthias Claudius opened the year 1773 of the Wandsbecker messenger and that begins: "It was only early twilight" Then reprinted in the Göttingen Musenalmanach for 1774. The transformation of the text is probably from Methfessel. (Spelling also "agrees with bright high sound") Music: Albert Methfessel - 1811 - mostly the song is overwritten with "Weihelied" the same melody is sung. The song was prescribed in Prussia before the First World War for school education in the sixth grade (Central Journal of the Prussian government of 1912). It was part of the war education in the Empire. Disclaimer: All videos are apolitical and this channel is against any form of extremism or hatespeech! ●▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬✠❈ SUPPORT❈ ✠▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬● ❖ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/arminius1871 ●▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬♬❈ LYRICS❈ ♬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬● Stimmt an mit hellem hohen Klang, stimmt an das Lied der Lieder, des Vaterlandes Hochgesang! Das Waldtal hall es wider. Des Vaterlandes Hochgesang! Das Waldtal hall es wider. Der alten Barden Vaterland, dem Vaterland der Treue, dir, freies, unbezwungnes Land dir weihn wir uns aufs neue Zur Ahnentugend wir uns weihn, zum Schutze deiner Hütten; wir lieben deutsches Fröhlichsein und alte deutsche Sitten. Die Barden sollen Lieb und Wein, doch öfter Tugend preisen, und sollen biedre Männer sein in Taten und in Weisen. Ihr Kraftgesang soll himmelan mit Ungestüm sich reißen, und jeder echte deutsche Mann soll Freund und Bruder heißen. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cR0_XK-YJio