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You're welcome. I guess germans got cured of their superiority complex the hard way. It wasn't without side effects either. It's only in the last couple of years, actually starting with the last Soccer WC when people started putting flags on their cars and balconies, that our relationship with our own nationality is somewhat normalizing.

And thanks for making an effort to understand.

What fun. Hendrix was amazing. Don McLean' tune used to be a huge fave of mine when I was little. Some of the tunes like the John denver or Three Dog Night, and Peter, Paul & Mary I always associate with roller skating. Never heard the Nitty gritty song though. Thanks for sharing.

Actually, I'm not sure either. There are laws prohibiting the use of nazi symbols. But I don't really think the Deutschlandlied is part of that. There are not different versions just those three verses. As I said in the thread the first two were dropped and are not used anymore. If you use them, over here at least, people will likely think you are a nazi or at least very very right-wing, as only nazis will sing those verses. Germans are pretty humorless on this particular issue.

Can you read german? Here's the official history of the song.
The nazis used the first verse only, the other verses were verboten, and they added the Horst-Wessel-Lied, the SA song, after the first verse. That became nazigermany's hymn.
After the war the allies put the hymn on the index. Adenauer fought to have it back as the national anthem using only the third verse.
Still doesn't answer the question whether it's illegal to sing the first verse today, but I doubt it. Otherwise it would have been mentioned.

You learn something new every day. Though I'm pretty sure I've had this in school. Just too long ago.

I'm a little disappointed, to be honest, after watching the game.. don't think Germany deserved it. Well, perhaps from the scoring-more-goals-than-the-other-team point of view. But I just thought Turkey played a lot better.

Well, Germany improved in the second half, but I didn't think they would get much worse. But yeah, that final goal was very nicely done.

that's great, thanks for the info.

I struggle just to enjoy the small things sometimes. I think I need more silence than I get, too.

Hm.. I will be rooting for Turkey.

How's things?

Don't make me headbutt you

Everything has been making me sad lately. It's been a rough year. Or more accurately 15 months or so.

I want you to watch this video and feel inspired.

I loved your "Profile Pics" thread. Funny