# I.D. this Nazi song? (It's not the Horst Wessel, that's all I know.)

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**Created:** [February 8, 2004, 8:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-d-this-nazi-song-its-not-the-horst-wessel-thats-all-i-know/228108 "2004-02-08T08:41:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2004, 8:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-d-this-nazi-song-its-not-the-horst-wessel-thats-all-i-know/228108/1 "2004-02-08T08:41:30Z")

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I just was watching a History Channel documentary on the Hitler Youth the other day, and they happened to play a period clip of German music over some footage.

But, for the life of me, I can’t identify what the music is. I know it’s not the Horst Wessel Song, or the Panzerlied, but that’s the end of my knowledge of WWII German music.

I checked with the mods, and so [here is a clip of said music](http://members.aol.com/ranchoth1/xplane/nazisng.mp3), as a 300k MP3 file. Can anyone here identify it?

Well, thanks for your patience,  
Ranchoth  
(I can only pray that I don’t get the darn thing stuck in my head one day. It’d be more than a little embarrassing to start absent mindedly humming it at the supermarket. :eek: )

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**Author:** ![kellner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c2a13f/32.png) [@kellner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kellner)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2004, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-d-this-nazi-song-its-not-the-horst-wessel-thats-all-i-know/228108/2 "2004-02-08T12:29:40Z")

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I think this might be a song some sources call “The song the HJ” (HJ=Hitlerjugend, male youth organisation, 14 and older) or just “Vorwaerts, vorwaerts!” after one of it’s lines.

Here is a link to the German version of the lyrics:

[http://www.shoah.de/shoah/se/ns-jugendOrg.htm](http://www.shoah.de/shoah/se/ns-jugendOrg.htm) (To the right of a picture of Hitler and a few youths in uniform)

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> “Vorwaerts! Vorwaerts!  
> Schmettern die hellen Fanfaren.  
> Jugend kennt keine Gefahren.  
> Deutschland, du wirst leuchtend stehn,  
> Moegen wir auch untergehn.  
> Vorwaerts! Vorwaerts!  
> Schmettern die hellen Fanfaren.  
> Jugend kennt keine Gefahren.  
> Ist das Ziel auch noch so hoch,  
> Jugend zwingt es doch.”

I havn’t found an English version yet, but here is a very rough translation:

Forward! Forward!  
Clangor(?) the fanfares  
Youth knows no dangers  
Germany, you will stand brightly  
if we might perish  
Forward! Forward!  
Youth knows no dangers  
How high the aim might be  
Youth achives it anyway

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**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2004, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-d-this-nazi-song-its-not-the-horst-wessel-thats-all-i-know/228108/3 "2004-02-08T22:21:13Z")

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That’s definately it—I found a sound clip of "“Vorwaerts, Vorwaerts!” that’s identical to the documentary song. Thanks!