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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 2509136, member: 39&quot;]OK, even if won&#039;t win anything <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> let me add that, as far as the lyrics are concerned, August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben wrote them on the (then British!) island of Helgoland. Hoffmann was a patriotic democrat; his idea, expressed in the &quot;Lied der Deutschen&quot; (Song of the Germans) or Deutschlandlied, was that a united democratic Germany would be a better Germany. He was also somewhat anti-French and anti-Semitic but had his problems with the authoritarian Prussian government too ...</p><p><br /></p><p>As for the present (those who are interested in Nazi Germany only may ignore the rest of the post), the third verse of the Deutschlandlied - &quot;Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit&quot; - is the national anthem of the Federal Republic of Germany. This year in October, by the way, the Deutschlandlied will be commemorated on a <a href="https://www.deutsche-sammlermuenzen.de/out/pictures/generated/product/1/500_439_85/910080sj_175_jahre_deutschlandlied_zoom.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.deutsche-sammlermuenzen.de/out/pictures/generated/product/1/500_439_85/910080sj_175_jahre_deutschlandlied_zoom.jpg" rel="nofollow">€20 collector coin</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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