Lili Marleen in German recorded 1939 Lale Andersen

greece on the top...lossers of the war....

I miss the another video showing combat scenes Where on the hell it´s

great song!

It's really no miracle that this song was such a hit. It's good written, has an extremely catchy melody (perfect to whistle) and it has "Herzschmerz".

I can't make any sense of it: my dad's whole family are Jews, originally from Vienna and L'viv. But I love this song, and can sing it word for word, auf Deutsch.

Why, oh why, do those Boches always write such pretty tunes?

maybe because Germany has a huge history in music and the arts in general? I mean...12 years of nazism cannot make us forget that! Please!

Lily Marlene cuts directly against Nazi propaganda. Thats why they banned it and even arrested Lale Anderson. Originally written in 1915 it's about a soldier meeting his girl below a streetlight and wondering if he will ever return from the front. Its deep sadness is hardly heroic. They gave Anderson such a hard time she attempted suicide. Fortunately she survied and so did this great song.

That much is true. The narrator doesn't come right out and say, "Make love, not war," but he leaves little doubt about which he'd prefer to be doing.

more poetic than that but that's the idea:

Da sagten wir, Auf Wiedersehen,
wie gerne wollt ich mit dir gehen,
mit Dir Lili Marleen,
mit Dir Lili Marleen.

I'd rather be
with you
with you

If Moby and Roadwarrior are talking about the video that showed youth scenes, a family saluting as soldiers marched by, and scenes of defeat at the end, I wonder too. That was an excellent video. Can someone re-post?