Word: horsting
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...Army sign says: "Free Swing Concert Tonight in the Mozart Theater." In Salzburg it is swing, in Vienna it is a tune somewhat more familiar to European ears. But unless the orchestras get together, the Austrians are more likely to listen to a new variation of that old Horst Wessel Lied, sung by men who are now fugitives in the mountains...
...corner of northwestern Germany the German war spirit still throve. Around the red brick Marine & Signal School in Flensburg milled armed German soldiers and sailors. Sometimes they drilled stiffly, sometimes they sang Wir Fahren Gegen Engeland and the Horst Wessel Lied...
Berlin posters cried birthday greetings to the Fiührer: "Our walls may crumble but our hearts stay firm." Tiredly, Propagandist Joseph Goebbels eulogized: "Even the greatest leaders of history will be faced with occasional setbacks." Discreetly the radio did not play the Horst Wessel Song or the refrain: Today Germany, tomorrow the world!; instead, it broadcast a Handel Concerto Grosso, Beethoven's Eroica...
...finally did reach for power, it was as the herald of a "mass drama that was breaking over the nation." Heiden believes that few chose to deny the drama's "grandeur," whatever its brutality. "No political conviction could banish from the world the eternal march rhythm of the Horst Wessel song." And the money poured in when success seemed likely-"the power of accomplished facts called forth reluctant admiration...
...their respective bailiwicks it might have been possible thus to present Hitler, Hirohito or Stalin, accompanied by the Horst Wessel song, Kimyjayo, or the Internationale. In this case, however, the apotheosis was being accorded to Frank Sinatra. The tune he was singing might well have been Lo, He Comes With Clouds Descending, but was in fact called The Music Stopped...