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A series of great German recordings around WWI and post war, on exciting labels:

This is an EXTREMELY IMPORTANT Set of  Records of the "OTHER" GERMANY under the 1930s Nazi Rule:

Made 1938 under siege by Falange Franco in Barcelona,  the holdout of the Spanish Republic. DISCOS DE LAS BRIGADA INTERNACIONALES ESPANA,

Ernst Busch with the Chorus of the 11th Brigade

Issued in the US under the Communist-Friendly Keynote Label:

Thaelmann Kolonne (TWO International Brigades were named after the German Communist leader, put into KZ and eventually killed by Hitler)/ w Guitar Lied der INter-Brigaden (Song of the Communist Internationale Brigades)

- Busch w Piano:Lied der Einheitsfront (Song of the UNITY FRONT, aka Front Populaire)/Los Cuartos Generales w Guitar

EINHEITSFRONT has a STICKER: La impresion Defectuosa de este disco es debida a las interruptiones de energia electriaca durante un bombardo - the imperfect reocrding on this disk is due to a power failure during an AIR RAID.

- Busch w Choir 11 Brig: Lied der Moor Soldaten (Song Of the Peat Bog Soldiers - From a German Concentration Camp)/Hans Beimler - a German Communist Hero and Worker Leader of the Weimar Republic.

 

3 x10" records in original Keynote Album

Condition:

Great picture album with marching Internationalists on front, red plush cover on back.

EXCELLENT faint scuffs, dusty, Moor has a faint scratch NAP,   plays very quiethiss. Album great light roughing of spine

Records are the singer Ernst Busch, not to be confused with a Nazi General of the same name, was the Bard of the Communist Party in the Weimar Republic. A hugely popular singer of great integrity, he used his songs as a way to rally the working class. By a lucky circumstance, he escaped arrest by the SA in 1933. He stayed in the USSR in 1935, and joined in 1937 the INTERNATIONAL BRIGADE to defend the Spanish Republic against General Franco. Here is where these recordings were made. He was arrested by the GESTAPO in 1940, and accused of high treason. Barely escaping with his life at an air raid, the Red Army liberated him from Jail.

Post 1945, the East German government saw in him a poster boy (like Brecht) for the new communist state, but Busch was forced into "retirement" , as he had dared to criticise the General Secretary of the East German Government, Walter Ulbricht. Busch died in 1980.

Die Moorsoldaten
(von: Rudi Goguel, Johan Esser und Wolfgang Langhoff) Wohin auch das Auge blicket Moor und Heide nur ringsum Vogelsang uns nicht erquicket Eichen stehen kahl und krum Refrain: Wir sind die Moorsoldaten und ziehen mit dem Spaten ins Moor Wir sind die Moorsoldaten und ziehen mit dem Spaten ins Moor Hier in dieser öden Heide ist das Lager aufgebaut wo wir fern von jeder Freude hinter Stacheldraht verstaut Refrain Morgens ziehen die Kolonnen durch das Moor zur Arbeit hin graben bei dem Brand der Sonne doch zur Heimat steht der Sinn Refrain Heimwärts, heimwärts jeder sehnet zu den Eltern, Weib und Kind manche Brust ein Seufzer dehnet weil wir hier gefangen sind Refrain Auf und nieder geh´n die Posten keiner, keiner kann hindurch Flucht wird nur das Leben kosten vierfach ist umzäunt die Burg Refrain Doch für uns gibt es kein Klagen ewig kann nicht Winter sein einmal werden froh wir sagen Heimat du bist wieder mein Refrain B: Dann zieh´n die Moorsoldaten nicht mehr mit dem Spaten ins Moor Dann zieh´n die Moorsoldaten nicht mehr mit dem Spaten ins Moor

 

Usually done in English as "The Peat Bog Soldiers" Both The Dubliners and Paul Robeson have done versions of it. The Peat Bog Soldiers Far and wide as the eye can wander Heath and bog are everywhere Not a bird sings out to cheer us Oaks are standing gaunt and bare We are the Peat Bog Soldiers We´re marching with our spades to the bog  

Up and down the guards are pacing

No one, no one can go through Flight would mean a sure death facing Guns and barbed-wire greet our view We are the Peat Bog Soldiers We´re marching with our spades to the bog But for is there is no complaining Winter will in time be past One day we shall cry rejoicing "Homeland, dear, you´re mine at last" We are the Peat Bog Soldiers We´re marching with our spades to the bog Then will the Peat Bog Soldiers March no more with the spades to the bog

Die Thaelmann Kolonne - The Thaelmann Brigade (Thaelmann was the charismatic leader of the German Communist Party. Still in 1932, he dared to be the Canditate for Reichs President AGAINST Adolf Hitler, but he was immediately arrested after Machtergreifung in March 1933. He was murdered in the Buchenwald Concentration Camp in 1944

 

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