The purpose isn't a retrospective of WWII music but rather for the beauty of music which has power even to cross NAZI lines. The song was originally written in 1915 as "A Song for the Soldier on Watch" who may be missing his love back home.
Lale Anderson recorded the original version and she sings in the first video.
Lale Anderson recorded the original version and she sings in the first video.
In one of the endless ironies in music, Marlene Dietrich covered the song and this is the one you have likely heard previously. This one is softer than the first which had something of a militarist taste to it but was lovely nevertheless. Marlene Dietrich takes it home.
If there is anything else which can cross a battlefront with impunity, we have never heard of it. The song lives forever behind that.
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