GERMAN MILITARY MARCH - The Double Eagle March 1938-45

[barrhavener]

Too many misinformation on You Tube and your title is one of them. The Double Eagles March was written in honour to the Austria-Hungary Empire Flag and had nothing to do with Germany at that time.

The composer was a Viennese Army Officer Josef Wagner and had no relationship to the German composer Richard Wagner. He was actual a close friend of the Waltz King Johann Strauss Junior.

[tigerlilly66]

Very good march, and one that I'm surprised to hear has a German origin. I played it in college and had no idea it wasn't an American original.

The march Alte Kameraden is also attributed to the Nazis, although written just after WWI and is also a very stirring march.

Give me our march king, JP Sousa anyday!

America Bless God so that God can once again bless America !

[churromaster100]

2 people must not exist

[EstebanTheAardvark]

I like how I hear this at Busch Gardens :P

[247copenhagen]

i love german music

[MagnumJr32]

Who is this version preformed by? I can't find it anywhere!

[KaiserJames]

Yes, Unter dem Doppeladler by Josef Franz Wagner in 1902.

[skimdit]

We used to play this march in high school down here in little old New Orleans way back in the Sixties . Now all you hear is crisis and conflict music made popular by the Civil Rights movement. a lot of blapps and bleets.

[ImperatorDominus]

@skimdit Is that a bad thing?

[Shockwave474]

This might just be the coolest march ever composed.

[KevinByrne2]

The march "Under the Double Eagle" was composed in 1902 by Austrian composer Josef Wagner (1856-1908).

[MrRgp]

picolo in the trio is epic!

[barrhavener]

His other march (less popular) is the Woodcutters March

[BaRRicade120]

Measures 5 and 6 ( 00:06-00:07) are the best, Diminished chords for the win!

[marezzo32]

double eagle march is from Austria...

[clararock01]

This is the march that gives me a lot of memories back... I always wanted to play this march since last year when my clarinet teacher said that he played that song beforehe quit band career... He playes a small portion of this march and I started to like it ... Now, I can hear the full version of Under The Double Eagles march... I am really happy...

[09308140599gems]

ilike  it

[happyman555]

Anyone know who arranged this? it sounds hella fun.

[SpeedyNeutrino43]

No, it's not Nazi by a long shot.....Josef Franz Wagner wrote this in 1902 and J. P. Sousa liked it so much he recorded it three times. Very nice, lively march.

[bgrobin66]

The timpani drum has no place in a military march. Everytime there is it is overplayed and slurs everything together

[callos1232]

Lovely! Thumbs up if you dont care about war and just like to hear a march song!!

[rjteasdale]

I'm (1) American, and (2) a big John Phillip Sousa fan, but this march (and yes, it's Austrian) is one of my absolute favorites. Sousa wrote some of the best marches ever, but none can take anything away from this GREAT march by Wagner. I'm not sure when it was actually written, but there's an Edison brown wax recording of it from 1899, so it was obviously written before then!

[SpeedyNeutrino43]

@rjteasdale This is only a suggestion.....Carl Teike and Julius Fucik were both right up there with Mr. Sousa. Listen to "Alte Kameraden" by Teike and "Entrance of the Gladiators" by Mr. Fucik. I think you'll enjoy them. Another very fine march you might like is "Marsz Rzeczpospolita", a Polish march. I'm also American and a lover of martial music from all over the globe. zzahier is a great asset when it comes to good music on YouTube...and I appreciate his efforts.

[777jasonyoo]

This march is actually amazing too...

[wolffe93]

you stole our hymn, please stop stealing our marches too

[tribeofgaul]

it the US leaves germany. I win ww2.

[Kosta139]

One of my favorite marches.

[Trombone590]

I dont care what kind of march this really is but it sounds very good.

[SpeedyNeutrino43]

BRAVO for Zzahier for posting this fine march. This is an especially good version.

[SpeedyNeutrino43]

All the monsters in known history pale when compared to Josef Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili.....Stalin. And Mao Tse Tung. Between them both at least 75 million of their own countrymen were killed for "political reasons" This is a conservative estimate. In countries as large as Russia and China millions can disappear and not be missed for long. Those who inquired about the missing were added to the list of dead.

[nor888vast695]

@SpeedyNeutrino43- The murder of Russians & Ukrainians killed was astronomical. Russia was already half empty when the war begain. If Hitler had recruited Ukrainian divisons there would be no USSR. Stalin himself admitted at the end they had 2 motorised divisions & one ox cart division. In the whole of Russians the ones the communists killed or caused the death of nearly every man in USSR. Women fought too. Then after the war the tally was @20 million. Stalin did not act alone and is important.

[SpeedyNeutrino43]

Nor888vast695, I agree with what you said. In 1990 and 1991 I was acquainted with a well educated Russian woman who had recently immigrated here from Moscow. She even knew of the atrocities and genocide committed by Comrade Stalin. We watched something I never thought I'd see in my lifetime....the disintegration of the USSR and the lowering of the hammer and sickle. The list of historical monsters is quite long.

[SpeedyNeutrino43]

On a more pleasant note, if you like things German find "Gitti and Erika" on YouTube. I just discovered them..what wonderful voices they have.

[Niall101a]

ZOMG its the Germans!!

Quickly children hide from the fascist monsters!

[jimmyxx3]

You really act like a ignorant child Niall101a....

Monsters are the worst word to describe a human being.

[Niall101a]

Monsters is one of the worst things to describe a human being but it think the term is justified in the case of the 3rd Reich. What with the Genocide, Conquest, brutality, de-huminization of people, intolerence, barbarity, racism, butchery and good old fashioned murder. Ah Germans everyone's favourite lovable rogues eh?

[jimmyxx3]

Hear that from someone being all like "ZOMG its the Germans!! ".

Hitler was behind the holocaust not everybody in the Third Reich, which many of Germans decided to fight for Germany not Hitler and most never knew what Hitler was really fighting for.

[Audinos]

You want a monster? Try Margaret Sanger. As a leading voice in America's eugenics movement in the 1920's, and an outspoken proponent of the elimination of "weaker" (non-white) races through legal abortion, many of her ideas were eagerly adopted by German National Socialism and carried to their logical extreme. To this day, while everyone hates Hitler, some people call Sanger a hero. I do not follow that logic.

Oh, and this march is Austrian.

[volkswagen128]

great music, thanks for the share!

[austrian37]

No, "Double Eagle" refers to the heraldic animal in the crest of the Austrian Empire (part of Austria-Hungary).

The Habsburg crest displays a red lion with blue crown. In 1736, when the family's name changed to Habsburg-Lothringen, three eagles from the crest of Lorraine (Lothringen) were added.

Both crests are part of the coat of arms of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

[austrian37]

The Double Eagle March has always been Austrian and will remain so forever! It is not a German military march. Ignorant Foreigners (mostly German) trying to rewrite Austrian history and to redefine our cultural heritage piss me off!

[IAB1789]

The "Double Eagle" of the title refers to the crest of the Habsburgs, is that correct?

[grindig]

@IAB1789 its origin an austrian march and was also used for the k. and k. infantry of the austrian monarchy

[IAB1789]

It's certainly a very fine march, and one of the more martial Austrian marches that I've heard.

[swsamlee]

I am a Chinese born and grow up in Taiwan. Students are marching in the morning and afternoon with this song. All people love it. We don't care where is came from.

[JurishzteR]

wahaha im from the philippines, we use this during our Citizen's Army Training during High school, no kidding.... So it came from Nazi Germany

[austrian37]

Could you explain your bizarre train of thought?

[Aroleflin]

Sad to say, but when I listen to the music and see images of the nazis it reminds of Herr Obama now sitting in the White House forcing government control in the guise of entitlement and fiscal irresponsibility.

[Predatorren]

I this is one of the best austrian marches along with Radetsky and Rainermarsch.....

[geraldlrstubbs]

Just shows how international music can be. This piece is in the repertoire of the US and British Marine bands.

[smartperson9]

This isn't actually a Reichmarsch, it's an Austrian march in existance long before the Nazi Party and Adolf Hitler. I think it was during Otto von Bismarck's rule that this was composed. Even though Bismarck's reign was the supposed 2nd Reich, it had nothing to do with the Nazis.

[sirrington]

@smartperson9 Obviously not a reichmarsch the double headed eagle is not a symbol of the Nazis.

[cowmilk9999]

AWESOME!!! My band is playing this next year!!!

[BullSharkRyan]

lucky

[JRF1961]

Man,

I love these marches!!! Only Souza can match them!!!!

[thestargeezer]

This march is a Sousa march, Under the Double Eagle.....

[Audinos]

Sousa did not write this, but rather Austrian composer Josef Wagner in 1902. Sousa wrote hundreds of marches, most of which are nearly identical, but few as well-written as this one.

[regalcameo]

Love this version with the soli flutes on the trio section. Does anybody know what arrangement this is, and where I could find it?

[rascal711]

Wagner composed the doppeladler. Great march and in existence way before the Germans became National Socialists.

[TreueumTreueFest62]

This must be the best recording that I have ever heard.

[blaarp]

Playing in school bands in the US, this is one of the first marches you learn. At least when I was a kid. Then you move on to Sousa marches, which are great, but the woodwind parts are usually too difficult for little children to sound good.

Whereas any bunch of reasonably talented kids can play the hell out of Under the Double Eagle. Makes me smile every time I hear it.

[hcalierf1982]

the most beautiful austrian march

[REDBARONET]

Esta marcha siempre la tocaba la Banda de Músicos del Centro de Instrucción de la Benemérita Guardia Civil del Perú, cuyo tambor mayor marchaba al ritmo marcial prusiano denominado Paso de Ganso, alla por 1971

[eragon812]

etfell is right.. but this version is pretty good( as mine is too ;-) )

[drittenreichlieber]

Thanks this Lied is very good.

[eltfell]

The Double Eagle is an Austrian march - not German.

[domitype]

and Hitler was not an Austrian? What history books have you been reading?

anyway, never mind - it is a very good march and well performed and recorded by the leading propaganda orchestra of the 3rd Reich.

[sharpenbullet3193]

He is Austrian but he get German Citizenship

[KilaXxXHavok]

He was in fact from Austria-Hungry. Book source: "Mein Kampf" I have been reading it. I don't think Hitler would lie about his origin.

[domitype]

The Austria-Hungarian Empire was in decline when Hitler was born - Prussia and the new Germany was rising. After World War One Austria was reduced to be an outpost of Germany and what had been a major player in World Events was now almost nothing. This is just some of the emotional BS that he used to cause the rise of the Nazis. Read "Mein Kampf" with clear eyes and you will see all of the hatred and Crap that eventually killed millions of innocent people.

[domitype]

and by "cause the rise" I mean to say that he latched on to the crazy ideas of others and managed to ride the wave of insanity after World War One and the global depression of the 1920s to a new wave of political monstrosity.

This has nothing to do with a (by then) antique march from a fallen empire, but we do need to know what it is all about!

More words are spent on an obscure Beatles song or whatever, but the power of possibly forgotten political music still has to be remembered.

[KilaXxXHavok]

Who is to say I am not reading it with clear eyes? Regardless of the decline of Austria-Hungry that is where he was born/raised. Just because I am intrested in reading and learning about Hitler doesn't mean that I do not see the horrible crimes he committed. This is not ment to be offensive in anyway, I just want to make my point.

[tubaman123]

Sorry if there was some confusion - I was not responding directly to your comments - the Youtube format is not always clear and sometimes posts come later than expected.

Some people choose to ignore history or were poorly taught. The reasons Hitler was able to rise to such horrible power needs to be looked at seriously today. So many similarities between the 1920s and now! Even a very nice march in celebration of a failing empire holds a lot of propaganda weight...

[KilaXxXHavok]

I agree. Thanks for clearing that up for me. I thought you were saying that I was wrong, and some kind of (Hitler Lover).

[ArturoAlejandroS]

This is not nazi.A nice march, excellent version.Thanks for post this.

[happyman555]

@ArturoAlejandroS Thanks to this march, Foothill High School (N.Highlands, Ca) now has two more first place trophies, and a second. Although we had to make our drum major changer her salute o.o she didn't know the rumors about this song roflmfao.