This is what the NSB sang

Title: This is how the NSB sang

Author: G. Groeneveld

Binding: Paperback

EAN: 9789077503669

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Description:
There was a lot of singing during the Third Reich. Without exaggeration, one can speak of a true dictatorship of singing. The Nazis made sure that everyone, from the smallest toddler to the highest party boss, could draw generously from a reservoir of brown songs. Because singing gave courage, fraternized and hammered in propaganda slogans. Singing is better than thinking, a Nazi-minded poet even claimed. During the Second World War, German marching songs resounded through the streets all over occupied Europe. In the long run, even many an anti-Nazi could sing along to 'Deutschland ber alles', the Horst Wessel song and 'Wir fahren gegen Engelland'. The first part of this book discusses these Nazi songs in detail.
The Dutch National Socialists also made their mark musically. From the beginning, every NSB meeting was concluded with the Wilhelmus. The Dutch Blackshirts would proudly perform the sixth verse until the end of the war. In addition, they built up their own repertoire of battle songs via Dutch evergreens that were supposed to seriously appeal to the masses.
The song culture of the NSB has not been studied so far. Gerard Groeneveld is the first to study the contested texts and melodies. In this way he makes clear what role music played within Mussert's movement. Groeneveld follows the history of the origins of NSB songs, describes the context in which they were sung and portrays the best-known composers. To give an impression of this bombastic music, a CD with a representative selection from the German and Dutch national socialist song treasury is included with Zo zong de NSB.
Gerard Groeneveld is an investigative journalist and lecturer in Dutch at the Rotterdam Business School. He published the highly praised studies Zwaard van de geest (2001) and Kriegs berichter (2004) at Vantilt. He also edited the edition of Paul Metz' war diary Mussertman aan het Oostfront (2005) and the controversial Nagelaten bekentenissen (2005) by Anton Mussert.