Wrong anthem played

papa_smurf · 08-22-11, 10:06 AM

http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/220820...mpionship.html

Quote:

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 · 08-22-11, 11:07 AM

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

Jimbuna · 08-22-11, 12:04 PM

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

Ooops indeed

Betonov · 08-22-11, 02:09 PM

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

Penguin · 08-22-11, 03:48 PM

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

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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 :

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.

08-22-11, 11:07 AM	#2
August Wayfaring Stranger Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Massachusetts Posts: 23,197 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Ooops that's what they get for just changing the lyrics but keeping the same song. __________________ Flanked by life and the funeral pyre. Putting on a show for you to see.

08-22-11, 12:04 PM	#3
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,525 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	Kiessler added that Hungarian organisers refused to let him verify the anthem before playing it due to a "technical problem." Ooops indeed __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

08-22-11, 02:09 PM	#4
Betonov Navy Seal Join Date: May 2009 Location: Slovenia Posts: 8,647 Downloads: 26 Uploads: 0	Nothing new. If I had a euro for everytime somewhere played the Slovakian anthem instead of Slovenian

08-22-11, 03:48 PM	#5
Penguin Ocean Warrior Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Rheinische Republik Posts: 3,322 Downloads: 92 Uploads: 0	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 : 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.