Die Wacht Am Rhein - German March [ENG SUB] 

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- HISTORICAL REVIEW -
"Die Wacht am Rhein" (In English: The Vigilance/Guard of the Rhine) is a German patriotic anthem. It has its origins in the historic Franco-German rivalry, and was particularly popular in Germany during the Franco-Prussian War and World War I.
- ORIGIN -
During the Rhine Crisis of 1840, French Prime Minister Adolphe Thiers declared that the Upper and Middle Rhine rivers should serve as his country's "eastern natural border". In the German Confederation, it was feared, then, a French annexation of the left bank of the Rhine, as Louis XIV had intended at the time and Napoleon led with the creation of the Confederation of the Rhine between 1806 and 1813. Since the War of During the Thirty Years the population of German origin in the region had felt strongly threatened by frequent attacks from France.
In this context, a Swabian merchant named Max Schneckenburger wrote the poem "Die Wacht am Rhein". Before him, the lawyer Nikolaus Becker had already written the "Rheinlied", in which he swore to defend the threatened river border.
In the poem, with five original stanzas, a "thunderous call" is made to all Germans to rush and defend the German Rhine, to ensure that "no enemy sets foot on the shore of the Rhine." Two stanzas with more specific text were added by others. Unlike the old "Heil dir im Siegerkranz" which praised the monarchy, "Die Wacht am Rhein" and other songs written in this period, such as "Deutschlandlied" (the current German national anthem) and "Was ist des Deutschen Vaterland ?" (What is the German Fatherland?) by Ernst Moritz Arndt, called on Germans to unite, to put aside the sectionalisms and rivalries of the various German kingdoms and principalities, to establish a unified German state, (at least) in order to defend Germany.
The author Max Schneckenburger worked in Switzerland, and this poem was first set to music in Bern by the Swiss organist J. Mendel, and performed by the tenor Adolph Methfessel for the Prussian ambassador, von Bunsen. The first version was not popular. Schneckenburger died in 1849 and never heard the most famous tune. When Karl Wilhelm, music director of the city of Krefeld, received the poem in 1854, he wrote a version for himself and performed it with his men's choir on June 11, the silver wedding day of Prince Wilhelm of Prussia, who he would later become Emperor William I. The version was spread at song festivals.
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