Word: dankgebet
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...Dankgebet. Next day's ceremonies in Cologne were even more impressive. In an extraordinary exhibition of railroad efficiency German trains had brought an estimated 2,000,000 people to the Rhine city. No sooner had they left the station than they were handed lapel buttons marked "The Rhineland is Free." On every street corner Brownshirts were handing out paper flags by the dozen. From noon on all traffic was halted in the centre of the city. The square before Cologne's lace-spired cathedral was black with Germans, tears in their eyes, singing...
Once again Stagemanager Goebbels pushed the button and the obedient German people in every village in the land opened their mouths and sang the old Dutch thanksgiving hymn. Dankgebet, which begins ''God make us free." Written by Adrian Valerius in 1597, the most popular German translation is that of Josef Weyl. Forty million Nazi voices boomed out the words: "Wir treten zum Beten vor Gott dem Gerechten" ("We step up before God the Just to Pray...
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