# Nazi 'Vaterland' song **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 13, 2008, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nazi-vaterland-song/433424 "2008-01-13T23:35:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2008, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nazi-vaterland-song/433424/1 "2008-01-13T23:35:31Z")
What is the name of the Nazi song that starts ‘Das Vaterland! Das Vaterland!’? ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2008, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nazi-vaterland-song/433424/2 "2008-01-14T00:49:31Z")
There is one in _Cabaret!_ called “Tomorrow Belongs to Me” with a chorus of “Oh Fatherland, Fatherland, show us the sign your children have waited to see! The morning will come when the world is mine! Tomorrow belongs to me!” Mildly creepy, especially when we did that show in high school… ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2008, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nazi-vaterland-song/433424/3 "2008-01-14T00:51:58Z")
The one I’m thinking of often turns up in newsreels. I may have also heard it in a movie from the era. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2008, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nazi-vaterland-song/433424/4 "2008-01-14T00:57:47Z")
[QUOTE=EJsGirl] There is one in _Cabaret!_… [/QUOTE] OK, I checked out the Wiki page on _Cabaret_. It says that _Tomorrow Belongs to Me_ is a 'pastiche of the rousing German patriotic songs of the period ’ and mentions _Die Wacht am Rhein_. I think that’s actually it. ---
**Author:** ![gardentraveler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gardentraveler/32/3576_2.png) [@gardentraveler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gardentraveler)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2008, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nazi-vaterland-song/433424/5 "2008-01-14T02:42:25Z")
Here’s a page with [Die Wacht am Rhein](http://www.reelclassics.com/Movies/Casablanca/wachtamrhein-lyrics.htm); doesn’t seem to fit your description exactly. Here’s [more info from Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Wacht_am_Rhein). It’s sung in Casablanca, so maybe that’s what you’re remembering… GT ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2008, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nazi-vaterland-song/433424/6 "2008-01-14T02:58:26Z")
[QUOTE=gardentraveler] Here’s a page with [Die Wacht am Rhein](http://www.reelclassics.com/Movies/Casablanca/wachtamrhein-lyrics.htm); doesn’t seem to fit your description exactly. Here’s [more info from Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Wacht_am_Rhein). It’s sung in Casablanca, so maybe that’s what you’re remembering… GT [/QUOTE] Could be. As far as not fitting, I may be misremembering ‘Lieb Vaterland’ as ‘Das Vaterland’. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2008, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nazi-vaterland-song/433424/7 "2008-01-14T04:25:21Z")
If you’re thinking of the song the German officers sing at the piano in Rick’s, in the “Marseillaise” scene in _Casablanca_, that’s “Die Wacht am Rhein”. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2008, 9:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nazi-vaterland-song/433424/8 "2008-01-14T09:07:16Z")
[YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iYbEPZVVIA) link. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2008, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nazi-vaterland-song/433424/9 "2008-01-14T13:25:56Z")
[QUOTE=Quartz] [YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iYbEPZVVIA) link. [/QUOTE] Yes, that’s it. Thanks for the link. It saved me from having to pull out the DVD. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2008, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nazi-vaterland-song/433424/10 "2008-01-14T13:50:00Z")
And, of course, just for the record, “Wacht am Rhein” predates the Nazis and isn’t a Nazi song. It’s an anti-French song, but who can’t get behind that? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2008, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nazi-vaterland-song/433424/11 "2008-02-29T16:52:11Z")
Damn! Wrong thread! ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2008, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nazi-vaterland-song/433424/12 "2008-02-29T16:58:46Z")
[QUOTE=Captain Amazing] And, of course, just for the record, “Wacht am Rhein” predates the Nazis and isn’t a Nazi song. It’s an anti-French song, but who can’t get behind that? 🙂 [/QUOTE] Presumably a lot of the French customers and staff in Rick’s cafe had trouble with anti-French songs 🙂 – and that might be why they fought back with La Marseillaise. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2008, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nazi-vaterland-song/433424/13 "2008-02-29T22:39:41Z")
[QUOTE=Captain Amazing] And, of course, just for the record, “Wacht am Rhein” predates the Nazis and isn’t a Nazi song. It’s an anti-French song, but who can’t get behind that? 🙂 [/QUOTE] Allegedly, WB wanted to use _Horst Wessel Lied_ – much more demonstrably Nazi – but couldn’t get clearance. _Die Wacht am Rhein_ was in the public domain. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2008, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nazi-vaterland-song/433424/14 "2008-02-29T23:10:16Z")
I recall in [_Europa, Europa,_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europa_Europa) the Hitler Youth sang a song that began, “Sharpen up the long knives on the paving-stones, [something something] into Jewish flesh and bone.” Was that an authentic song? I’ve also heard of one that begins “When Jewish blood spurts from the knife, things go twice as fine” – Or “the blood of others,” I’m not sure. Same as the above, or different song? ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2008, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nazi-vaterland-song/433424/15 "2008-02-29T23:36:27Z")
[QUOTE=BrainGlutton] I recall in [_Europa, Europa,_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europa_Europa) the Hitler Youth sang a song that began, “Sharpen up the long knives on the paving-stones, [something something] into Jewish flesh and bone.” Was that an authentic song? I’ve also heard of one that begins “When Jewish blood spurts from the knife, things go twice as fine” – Or “the blood of others,” I’m not sure. Same as the above, or different song? [/QUOTE] They’re both different songs from each other, and both different from the Horst Wessel Lied. They’re SA marching songs The lyrics of the first song are, in translation: > [@](#): > > Sharpen the knives on the paving stones > so they cut into Jewish flesh and blood better! > When the hour of vengeance comes > we’re ready to start the massacre! The lyrics of the second song are, in translation: > [@](#): > > When the stormtrooper enters the fire, he keeps his courage, > and when Jewish blood spurts from the knife, everything is twice as good. > Throw out the whole bunch of Jews! > Throw them out of the Fatherland! > Send them back to Jerusalem and cut their throats, > or they might come back.