Wrong anthem played

[papa_smurf]

http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/22082011/58/london-2012-nazi-anthem-played-canoe-championship.html
The Germany canoeing team were left 'appalled' after organisers at the Canoe Sprint World Championships in Hungary played the banned 'Nazi anthem' at a medal ceremony.

Well, to quote the phrase....WHOOPS!

[August]

Ooops that's what they get for just changing the lyrics but keeping the same song. :DL

[Jimbuna]

Kiessler added that Hungarian organisers refused to let him verify the anthem before playing it due to a "technical problem."

Ooops indeed :DL

[Betonov]

Nothing new. If I had a euro for everytime somewhere played the Slovakian anthem instead of Slovenian :shifty:

[Penguin]

The first two stanzas are not banned, but not sung anymore. What the Hungarians played was "Das Lied der Deutschen" (the song of the Germans - with the melody stolen from the Austrian Kaiser anthem ;))
The third stanza of this song is the German national anthem, delared so in 1991.

When the first chancellor after the war, Adenauer, came to the USA for the first time in 1950, they played a carnival song , as Germany had no anthem at this time : Heidewitzka, Herr Kapitän (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMAHqLIdTqg) :D
It was said that he was quite peeved about this, so that he re-introduced the old anthem in '52, with only the 3rd stanza sung.