Word: leip
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Dates: during 1943-1943
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Lili Marleen was composed in 1938 by a black-haired Nazi tunesmith named Norbert Schultze. Its lyricist was Hans Leip, minor poet who had a small reputation during the Weimar Republic. Rejected by some 30 music publishers, Lili Marleen finally caught on in August 1941, when Nazi broadcasters, taking over the Belgrade radio, found they had only three records to play. One was Lili Marleen. By last January they had played it twice nightly for 500 nights, and fan mail, which came from as far away as German submarines off the U.S. Atlantic coast, had run into millions of letters...
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