National songs

[Fulmen]

Which anthem would be played if you won as Nazi Germany? Horst-Wessel-Lied is currently banned in Germany, so would it be Deutschlandlied (the current anthem) then?

Das Lied der Deutschen was the anthem of Germany during NSDAP rule as well. The Horst-Wessel Lied was often used in conjunction, but it was not the official anthem.

 

[Ottaro]

After a failed seelöwe:

 

[Nikolaju]

Das Lied der Deutschen was the anthem of Germany during NSDAP rule as well. The Horst-Wessel Lied was often used in conjunction, but it was not the official anthem.

Usual procedure was playing only the first stanza of the Deutschlandlied (the expansionist one that wasn't even correct when the song was created in 1841), followed by the Horst-Wessel-Lied.

 

[Fulmen]

Usual procedure was playing only the first stanza of the Deutschlandlied (the expansionist one that wasn't even correct when the song was created in 1841), followed by the Horst-Wessel-Lied.

Or vice versa.

Also, the idea of the first stanza is not that Germany should expand, but that the borders mentioned in the song are the existing borders of Germany as a nation, since all or most of the land within those borders were inhabited by Germans, even though there was no unifying state.

 

[Czert]

well, i will lov it if it will be likie in other games - it will pay natzional anthem when you declare war and then victory march when you win war.

 

[Nikolaju]

Or vice versa.

Also, the idea of the first stanza is not that Germany should expand, but that the borders mentioned in the song are the existing borders of Germany as a nation, since all or most of the land within those borders were inhabited by Germans, even though there was no unifying state.

Well, no. The imaginative borders of the first stanza include territories that were not inhabited by a German majority at all even back ten but instead by Poles, Danes, Czechs etc.
It was more romanticizing than actually correct. I guess that's mothing special seeing as the author was a romanticist. When it was made it was neither actually expansionist nor really correct. Instead it was more of a patriotic drinking song. Not much thinking involved, more dreaming.

 

[Fulmen]

Well, no. The imaginative borders of the first stanza include territories that were not inhabited by a German majority at all even back ten but instead by Poles, Danes, Czechs etc.
It was more romanticizing than actually correct. I guess that's mothing special seeing as the author was a romanticist. When it was made it was neither actually expansionist nor really correct. Instead it was more of a patriotic drinking song. Not much thinking involved, more dreaming.

I didn't say the border areas mentioned were inhabited by a German majority, but rather the land between said borders.

 

[that-guy-is-it]

Which anthem would be played if you won as Nazi Germany? Horst-Wessel-Lied is currently banned in Germany, so would it be Deutschlandlied (the current anthem) then?

I would vote for Sieg Heil Viktoria. Military theme, and the lyrics encapsulate what a German Player would be thinking.

Link to material with very obvious SS symbols deleted - Secret Master

 

[RMS Gigantic]

Somehow nobody brought this up as a USA victory song:

I am quite disappointed in my fellow freedom-lovers for letting the national march slip their minds. You win a battle/war, the final refrain (2:57 to the end of the embedded video) plays! It would be fantastic.

 

[Secret Master]

Folks, we really need to watch our links. We all know the rules, so don't post links to the wrong stuff.

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