https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Gedanken_sind_frei Since the days of the Carlsbad Decrees and the Age of Metternich, "Die Gedanken sind frei" was a popular protest song against political repression and censorship, especially among the banned Burschenschaften student fraternities. In the aftermath of the failed 1848 German Revolution the song was banned. The Achim/Brentano text was given a new musical setting for voice and orchestra by Gustav Mahler in his 1898 Des Knaben Wunderhorn collection.
The song was important to certain anti-Nazi resistance movements in Germany.[3] In 1942, Sophie Scholl, a member of the White Rose resistance group, played the song on her flute outside the walls of Ulm prison, where her father Robert had been detained for calling the Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler a "scourge of God". Earlier, in 1935, the guards at the Lichtenburg concentration camp had ordered prisoners to stage a performance in celebration of Hitler's 46th birthday; the imprisoned lawyer Hans Litten recited "Die Gedanken sind frei" in response.[4]
Was watching the 1971 movie escape of the birdmen tonight , and this song is sung by prisoners in the movie to piss off the guards https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066833/ if you can find the movie to watch its great . Based on a true story about prisoners building a glider to escape from Colditz prison durring WWII
sounds like it needs a reprise as a protest song!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Gedanken_sind_frei Since the days of the Carlsbad Decrees and the Age of Metternich, "Die Gedanken sind frei" was a popular protest song against political repression and censorship, especially among the banned Burschenschaften student fraternities. In the aftermath of the failed 1848 German Revolution the song was banned. The Achim/Brentano text was given a new musical setting for voice and orchestra by Gustav Mahler in his 1898 Des Knaben Wunderhorn collection.
The song was important to certain anti-Nazi resistance movements in Germany.[3] In 1942, Sophie Scholl, a member of the White Rose resistance group, played the song on her flute outside the walls of Ulm prison, where her father Robert had been detained for calling the Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler a "scourge of God". Earlier, in 1935, the guards at the Lichtenburg concentration camp had ordered prisoners to stage a performance in celebration of Hitler's 46th birthday; the imprisoned lawyer Hans Litten recited "Die Gedanken sind frei" in response.[4]
Was watching the 1971 movie escape of the birdmen tonight , and this song is sung by prisoners in the movie to piss off the guards https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066833/ if you can find the movie to watch its great . Based on a true story about prisoners building a glider to escape from Colditz prison durring WWII
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbwQXVcbkU0 song link