1930s German Soldier's Song "Erika" (ANIMATED w/English Subtitles)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ธ.ค. 2021
- 'Erika' (1939) by German Composter Herms Niel.
DISCLAIMER: I have created this video for strictly non-political and non-ideological purposes. I do not believe in nor endorse fascism, Nazism, or national socialism.
One of the most popular marching anthems to ever come out of Germany, Erika is recognized far from its country of origin.
Often thought of as traditional folk tune, Erika is in fact a more recent military marching song created after 1930. The lyrics and the melody come from the German composer for marching songs, Herms Niel (1888-1954).
Niel was the leading Kapellmeister (the main bandleader) of the Reich Labour Service and composed many songs for the Reich over its twelve years of existence including 'Engel-land-lied’, one of the main German war songs throughout the conflict.
Published under its original title “Auf der Heide blüht ein kleines Blümelein” (“Erika”), the songs main theme focuses on a man longing for his sweetheart back home.
The name "Erika" has a double meaning both as a traditional German girls name and also that of a flower.
The flowers known in German as Heidekräuter (Erica) are a genus of about 860 species of flowering plants in the family Ericaceae. One variety of heather or heath flowers, Glockenheide (bell heather), has the Latin name Erica tetralix.
'Erika' is a flower found growing “auf der Heide” (on the heath) or in a moor in Germany and other places.
Because of its Nazi-era association, “Erika” is sometimes considered to be politically incorrect. However, other than the march music and drum beats there is nothing in the song or its lyrics that have anythign to do with German militarism or Nazism at all. - เพลง
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My Argentinean grandfather says this is a certified hood classic.
Edit: thats so weird. So many other people in the comments also have grand parents from South America who love this song. Alot of them electricians apparently.
Argentinean? I think your grandfather played a controversial role LMAO
@@garanteicierto706 it is precisely the joke Lol
@@esoortypique3452 right it makes a lot of sense know lol, I didn't catch it back then
wtff?
My great-great uncle from Brazil says the same thing
Finally after more than 80 years, they released the official music video
They needed sum time to clear up sum other things beforehand
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@@carstennono9196 I strongly believe it was a certain sum that needed sum time to be summed up
Eevee!@@EEEEEEEE
@@carstennono9196 that’s some summary.
Allies: "They're probably singing about conquering the world or destroying their enemiers"
Germans: "I found this flower, her name is Erika"
LOL...stimmt :)
@@t3l3fragged Ganz genau 😂
lovely germans just minding their own business amarite
The Argentine sun shape on your pfp makes it even better
I love this comment so much lmao
This was my German grandpa’s favorite song!! It’s not a hate song it’s a love song!!
I know right 😂
It’s sad what TH-cam has done to it, one of my favorite versions recently got taken down
My grandpa killed Hitler
@@someone18305nice
The hate comes from those who think they're the good guys because the media told them.
@@tankznstuff5173forget to change accounts?
In every movie this song is pictured as nazi war music.
and after so many years, today I learn it's a love song for soldiers......
Everything WWII Germany is Nazis to progressives. They just hate Germans. It's anti-german propaganda
@@brycekleinschmidt438 Aye, they think Germany only exist during 1933-1945
There are many more things you'd be surprised to learn
@@hulubalangmelaka2051 And 1914-1918. Most "military" songs are about the loved ones of soldiers or what would they do when the war would be over, regardless of the country. Oh well, you might see the same thing happening with your own eyes, but the country whose population and culture is being stigmatized is Russia(
Once you hear the english lyrics it hits more. Katyusha is another beautiful song
It’s kinda sad that this song is unfairly stigmatized simply because the time period it was released.
Even then it was still a folk song before it became composed in the 30s
Because TH-cam want to remove my countrys beautiful songs and culture.
Wait. So did people think it was Nazi propaganda music?
@@YT_fudgie001 No, there are still many people which are convinced that songs like Erika were National Socialist songs and say they would be dangerous. We all know it better and we are convinced and sure that these are not national socialist songs.
As Nazi music would be filled with hatred, kinda like the world now. We stand with Ukraine #nowarplease
My German Shepherd raises his paw whenever he hears this song and I can never figure out why.
Maybe take him to the vet...
@@producedbyenigma Thats the strange thing. I live in Argentina and the Vet I often take my German Shephard to for check ups usually does the same
My Dachshunds do the same thing lol
still hits hard after 78 years
85*
cap@@denisdavid1339
This song is one of the main reasons why I decided to teach myself German
Hoffe es läuft gut.
@@producedbyenigma danke. Deutsch is schwer aber spaß
Viel Glück bei deinem Lernen. Du schaffst das!
(Good luck with your learning. You will do it!)
@@williamseifert169 ist
I taught my self how to speak a little german to deal with the amish near where I live. (not gonna try to correct any spelling for this but here is my pathetic attempt) Mien Deutsch ist Mistlemagen (my german is mediocre)
"What is the capital of France?"
*Points to Berlin on map*
Year: 1940-1944
Well there you go .
Love this! Greetings from Argentina.
@Gabriele Gatti why?
*The Rock raising eyebrow*
@@doctor_alfa a lot of Nazis fled to Argentina after the Second World War
@@poundlandspeedwagonrequiem yeah and ...?
@@doctor_alfa you don’t get it?
I thought that this was a dark song, but its actually so poetically sweet and beautiful
We do have a lot of pretty songs that have either been forgotten or turned into Nazi propaganda. I think my favourite is "Die Gedanken sind frei", about how free thoughts are.
Translated, the first verse goes something like this:
"Thoughts are free,
who could ever guess them?
They take flight from you
like shadows at night.
No man can know them,
no hunter can shoot them.
And so it shall always be:
Thoughts are free."
Don't let propaganda influence you. Remember many Germans were just fighting for their homes too they were irrelevant to the Nazi party
Yes, especially when the German boots march all over your country.
everything, the Nazis touched, turned dark
@@augustiner3821 jet airplanes would beg to differ
*when you realise erika is about a cool little flower sourrounded with small bees*
A flower and a girl. Same name
understood it the first time i heard it, blümelein is very close to the word blomma which is as you could guess swedish for flower
The flower is a metaphore for the girl, like "My girl is so beautiful, she's a beautiful flower". And the flower attracts all the bees (all the men who want to be with Erika). It's about one of the things all young men care about, hot women.
You have to understand the germans just wanted to make the world a better place.... Their methods are ein klein bisschen zu rigorous however.
*when you realise erika is about a cool little German sourrounded with Allies*
I found that Erika's music is a romantic music and not a marching song, that's why I love it.
Edit n°1: the hell that my only comment that is above 2k is on a german soldier's song ?
Like alot of german military marches, alot of german military songs talk about girls.
Many songs/cadences that soldiers march to are about a girl back home. This goes for MOST militarys around the world.
Why can’t it be both?
@@Viet_Nam_Ball based
Its a marching song to remind them of why they fight
This is a song about a woman and the love for a woman (fueling the soldiers to hurry and win the war [in order to get back to their loved ones]). That is not all that different from any other Soldiers and their loved ones.
When I was in Germany in the army in the early 90s I had a mate in the bundeswehr. He introduced me to a girl called Erika who i saw for a few years.
Every time me and tobias talked about Erika he would sing "und sie heisst... Erika" (or thats what it sounded like). I had no idea back then why he did that....
A bright song for such a dark time.
Interesting
The whole song is quite the juxtaposition.
It was made before the war by an german soldier
It was made before the war by an german soldier
@@leopard2a7v46 i understood
@@leopard2a7v46 i understood
Now the kids can also learn it....very cool
😳
Sus
😎👍
But what if they fail art school?
@@kovnqwer 🤫
Anyone who understands the lyrics will understand that it is not a war song as it is normally presented but instead a song that expresses love.
It is a war song. It was made by herms niel who was a nazi and made for the wehrmacht.
And anyone who understands history will understand that it is, in fact, a war song.
@@wasdas4360 Bc translation is wrong. Sweety Erika lives not "home", but "back home" (heimat). Hence, the singer/lover is marching around in an other country..
yeah but its German so... I mean you don't start two world wars and not have your marching songs be sus forever.
@@wasdas4360still a banger, just don’t play it in Israel.
For those who don't know: this song isn't about a girl named Erika, it's a song about the Heather (from the flowering plant family Ericaceae, that's where the name came from). In Germany we also call those plants "Erica". It's a widespread flower we use for cultural landscapes especially in the northern parts like the Lüneburger Heide or the Colbitz-Letzlinger Heide :)
its also about a girl named Erika as it clearly states at the end of the song.
That explains a lot. Why would a girl attract so many bees? Ha ha ha ha.
@@Lumotaku I think its about the flower reminding him of his fiance. Who may or may not be also called Erika
@@blacklight9359 its not about an individual its about the flower waiting at home for you and her name is Erika its any soldiers girl.
@@Lumotaku I think a few people have pointed out that Erika is also a name about the flower heather. And he quite literally talks about seeing the flower and "it almost seems to shout, are you thinking of your fiance?"
This song is stuck in my head and memorize every lyrics of the song... Even though I can't speak Deutsch
Deutsch* and i feel you bro the same all the time i start "AUF DER WEIDE" singing in ma head xd
@@nicodill3661 Heide (heath), not Weide.
@@G6JPG weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeide*
@@nicodill3661 Actually it is Deutsche.
@@Confederate_Mapping It can be used both ways depending on the sentence. In this situation it should be spelled *Deutsch*. (:
We in Germany say: Wunderschön dieses Lied🤝😘
Absoluter Klassiker! Das ist Musik in meinen Ohren.
Yes it is. It's a soldiers song about love. I'm a Hispanic but, very partial toward the German culture and her people. When my dad was stationed in Frankfurt Germany in 1963-65 with the 3rd armored division as a tank driver. He came back home with his Steins and memorabilia to Texas and I was about 10 years old he would play a vinyl record on a mono turntable record player and hear the sounds and music of Germany. Dad would say when the American army marched sometimes the German army would join them side by side with the Germans singing. I thought that was pretty cool stuff. 🇩🇪 🇺🇲 Jimbo Mexican American, former US Navy radioman petty officer 86-96.
When are you going to march to East into Russia for Lebensraum?
The moment when you can come up with something funny.
Ich kaufe ein Komma für 50.
I use to sit with Auntie Erika, on the beach near Campello Spain, we would talk , she was married to a British diplomat , I would go for a coffee at their apartment, once she showed me around, and there in her bedroom was a photo of a man in Uniform a major in the SS, she said that was my first husband he died fighting the Russians in 1943, I will always remember her a fine upstanding and proud woman who i later discovered was a duchess, I miss those chats on the beach a very nice lady who i called Erika.
I played this song in my car once, now it's a Panzer VI Tiger
Panzer IV is...just a panzer IV. A Tiger is a Panzer VI. A Tiger VI Ausf. B is a Tiger II, or King Tiger to the allies. Anyway, any Panzer is a good Panzer.
@@nobodyspecial4702 Yes, I just mistakenly put the I on the wrong side of the V. I corrected it now
@@darklanov Nothing wrong with a Panzer IV it was still one of the best tanks of the war and anyone would be happy to own one. One of the most versatile and well-performing tanks ever made. Suitable for both infantry support and tank warfare. Easily confused with actual Tiger I tanks by American and British crews who consistently reported them as Tigers for their kill count.
bro the beats drops faster than frances defences...
Bruh yes
LMAO but it is even faster than the fall of Poland.
or the way German forces surrendered like thousands of surrender monkeys when American, British and Canadian forces approached the Rhine in early 1945...
@@ludiacontentstudios attacked by 2 of the biggest superpowers at the time from both sides sure.
@@Drymarro I mean, I'm pretty sure France fell even quicker so I don't even think it was a bigger comparison.
For me, it's a beautiful folk song.
It is very great song but despite the lyrics, if you were to sing this in Germany, you would probably get arrested.
@@zachbocchino5501 What a bullshit
No, not really, if you look at it it was written by a national socialist writer of german marches during the thirties, released in 1938. This song cannot be put outside it's NAZI's context. It's purpose was to use dreamy lyrics to make the soldiers forget about the atrocity of the system and the war. But I have to admit it is quite catchy :)
@@38vocan lol, no.
@@SR-zc6lk you don't think it's catchy?
What a beautiful song
Apparently I was named after this song! It was popular when my (german) father was a teenager. Erika means heather in german.
Erika Moore: Yes..."Erica" is the "horticultural name" for heather.
No, Erika does not mean heather. Heather is Heide in german. Erika comes from a flower. Tha latin name of the flower is ericaceae. In German we call it Heidekraut. You also hear in the song the word Heidekraut. "when the Heidekraut blooms red and purple again." Because it is the color of ericaceae. The red/purple fliwering ericaceae is usually growing on heathers (Heiden) in Germany.
That is where Erika came from in this song. A red flower with the name ericaceae that grows on the heather.
The soldiers also sing for their woman who are waiting for her men to come home from war. That is the main aspect of this song. Not the flower itself.
On the heath, there blooms a little flower1
and it's called : Erika.
Eagerly a hundred thousand little bees,
swarm around, Erika.
For her heart is full of sweetness,
a tender scent escapes her blossom-gown.
On the heath, there blooms a little flower
and it's called : Erika.
Back at home, there lives a little maiden
and she's called : Erika.
That girl is my faithful little darling
and my joy, Erika!
When the heather blooms in a reddish purple,
I sing her this song in greeting.
On the heath, there blooms a little flower
and it's called : Erika.
In my room, there also blooms a little flower
and it's called : Erika.
Already In the grey of dawn, as it does at dusk,
It looks at me, Erika!
And it is as if it spoke aloud:
"Are you thinking of your fiancée?"
Back at home, a maiden weeps for you
and she's called : Erika.
That last verse . . . uh . . . the subtext . . . does that mean what I think it means?!
can you make another german song with animation like this? because this video is absolutely fantastic
There will be many, many more!
The translation and animation doesn't get the point of the song.
The plant that forms the heath is called "heather" in English and "Erika" or "Heidekraut" in German. So a translation that would catch more of the spirit of the song would tranlate Erika with "Heather" as this is also the name of that particular flower and the name of a girl in English.
@@TremereTT bro.... what the hell are you talking about? what you wrote has nothing to do with anything that they were talking about.
@@farfar1864 fr
@@TremereTT 🤓☝ ackshualy!
Remember folks. Even Patton said we fought the wrong enemy in WW2
Not gonna lie, this shit goes hard.
My grandmother was named Erika and she was from Berlin.
das ist gut
The english subs are actually excellent.
Thank you! As a non-German speaker I tried to get them as accurate as possible.
Except their font is hard to read
Imagine being in Germany in the 1930s and this absolute banger drops.
Especially on your way back home from Hitler's speech. 100% anyone would become a Nazi.
And you can march all the way Moscow
. . .
and back.
Yeah I remember
@@cohenworrior898 Bring your snow shoes !
ERIKA!!!
Meine name Erika!🙋♀️🤩😂 Ich gearbeite in Österreich schon 10-jahre war letzte in dem jahr, wie hausliche krankenschwester.
Erika ❤️ Ihr Name steht für Deutschtum
Meine Freundin ist Krankenschwester. Harte Arbeit. Harte Leute.
my fbi agent is going ot be wondering why ive heard this song 46 times in the past week.
My Austrian grandfather likes it, thanks u for the song and greetings from Argentina. 😇
"Feeling cute, might invade France."
-Erika, probably
Everybody gangsta until the trees start singing about a flower name Erika.
Always good.
Call me any name you like....... Love it.
It doesn't matter who wrote it in the first place and why, it was translated and adapted at the time of its creation for other countries, even in the USSR, in Finland the song is about "Kaarina" and the Soviet version too, there is also the English and US version "Erika". It's a pretty love song, a "musical hit" of its time.
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Willkommen :)
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It’s in reality a really nice and sweet song. If I was in charge of Germany modern day I would re-initiate this song into service.
Sounds like a way to get a lot of unnecessary hate messages…
I think every Soldier had an Erika in his home country that he missed. Unfourtunately my grandfather died in Stalingrad at the age of 38. We all miss him .Unfortunately we never met him and my father never had a father it´s so sad. Peace all over the world.💞👩❤👨
A true patriot of Germany and Europe. Best regards to family.
Or an Erik, innit?
Love this music, must be my Saxon blood. Greetings from England. Peace be unto you.
Sure its the blood hehe also just catchy 😄
Must be the blood despite me being of Saxon, Norman and Celtic origin but I’m over 50% a Germanic Saxon edit: I even live in Sussex named after the southern Saxon settlers
@@Elliotknotfound I used to go to various parts of Germany, with a male drinking friend. And, when we were in pubs and working mens clubs, I would say, that the faces all around us were like being in England, in the same sort of boozing establishments.. Peace be unto you.
@@martinwarner1178 It ia really a point of discussion: are the British Germanics or Celts.
@@johanvandermeulen9696 It's really interesting point, parts of England were affected greatly by Saxon influx. I've known this since the 1970s. We used to say, that we knew where a person was from by his face (UK) and we tested this by asking fellow drinkers (pubs) where the originated from. Of course this has been slewed somewhat with the large influx of very different gene pool. Also, your Celt theory is born out too, parts of the UK is populated by Celtish looking folk. Peace be unto you.
I wish there could be other German songs with this type of animation.
This song be giving a good vibe
In der Heimat weint um dich ein Mägdelein... Goosebumps!
I always listen to this song when I cross the border into France or Poland...
Why stop at the border? Lots of places in Poland you can play this loudly if you like to have interesting things happen to you - I suggest you start outside of the Warsaw Ghetto museum........
Happy song about a flower that reminds you of a pretty girl back home.
ah my ears are filled with lemons and sweets
Even their love songs are rousing military marches!
I showed my grandpa this, now he’s doing some weird high 5😂
You mean a weird force push? 🙋🏻♂️
very interesting. Almost everyone has that response to this song. Not my grandfather. I showed him this, the first thing he did was grab an M1 Garand and an old ww2 US helmet and ran shouting out the door. Don't even know where he got that M1 garand....or the helmet. Very weird. Huh guess he wasn't in the mood to give heil fives.
@Wernher von Braun I mean there was no wrong enemy. It was either the Germans or the Japanese. And he wasn't assigned to a division that was stationed in the Pacific.
@@zachbocchino5501 AMERICANS HAVE NO HISTORY NO CULTURE NO LANGAUGE AND THEY ARENT FUNNY
hey mom where did our family start............................ OH 0-o
I played this to my Labrador Roxy now its became German shepherd Blondie.
This was General Augusto Pinochet's favourite march too!! Chile's army used to march to it!.Nice song too, I like it very much too.
THIS HARD! UR 2 SLEPT ON BRO KEEP IT UP
Wunderbar
Обичам тази прекрасна песен! 🇧🇬🌹🙏✨❤️❤️
Привет брат и друг болгарин
@@thatclonetrooperintheback they are bulgarian, and write in bulgarian.
FANTASTISCH...DANKE ..
This song is so beautiful
I get misty eyed everytime I hear this song.
I love this song cause although its meant to be a marching song. Its smt of an anti war song in itself. It tells how much a soldier leaves behind and just how beautiful a life is ohne war.
Another german anti war song from ww1 "wo alle straßen enden"
@@FasterAndSlow I've heard it it's awesome ❤️
especially the last part
"ohne" means without
@@erikaquatsch2190 ERIKA
Catchy tune.
I really love this song, this video is awesome
Greetings from Canada 🇨🇦 . Love German Christmas carols, love German marches, love German culture! Don't lose it, Germany! Be proud of it!
Same but I mostly study 1939 to 45 German culture because why da f*** not
@@overloadgaming1532 aside from the racism they were quite admirable
@@geewhiz5926 I know they were one of best on well disciplined Military at the time
@@overloadgaming1532 that's part of why I like them I have a distaste for disorderly conduct/behavior
You too? I’m more interested in the tanks.
Linda a música, a voz e a letra , parabéns!..
you legend. Six months online! you made it
The french don't have ammo anymore. LET US ADVANCE THROUGH LINES FOR OUR FÜHER.
I just LOVE this song!!!
I didn’t realize this song was so wholesome.
There’s a lot they don’t teach you about that time
Most of the German propaganda from that time is wholesome, but the reality of the werhmacht job was not so wholesome for some reason.
"Deutsches Soldatenhaus"="Home of German soldier"->full of captured in conquered countries women's(over 35 000 of them) were working there as a s. slaves with nasty German word tattoo on them and a big chance for an execution if they ended up with v. disease from one of the romantic Erika song singers...
My morning alarm - makes me get out of bed in no time! 🧐
Nice TH-cam recommendations. Yet another peaceful and joyful German song, that I like to have as background noise for HoI4 playthroughs.
I march with this song in my head. Love it.
not only a soldier song but it's also a german culture song as it compares german women (so damn beautiful) to common german flowers
Sadly, Germany is now home to massive waves of immigration, german people are about to become minority
Or as politicians say, NEW GERMANS will become majority
"(so damn beautiful)".
There is this old Polish joke:
How to tell that you walked out of Poland and into Germany?
The cows start to look more attractive than the women...
Thank you for educating people on what this Song is really about
A lot of march songs are love songs. Its to keep soldiers good mooded and give taughts of better things then the actual trauma they are going trough
my favorite song ever!🔥
War is such a tragic thing.
just beautiful
WOW that is cool I've heard this song in movies and never thought of the lyrics
Always loved this song.
Wonderful video! Clever and novel.
alright flag waver
Always so popular this hymn to joy
Best song ever.
It's a actually a moving song... I really like it...
This is beautiful, the most beautiful song ever wrote and sang, flat out, and for the time period it came out??? Shows how much beauty there was instead of hate
This song deserves a Grammy and to be on the billboard charts
Anyway, that song sounds like order to shoot
Every German song sounds like a military march. Lullabies, nursery rhymes, love songs happy songs, wedding sings, the lot.
Except for you know, Wagner and Brahms and Beethoven and Bach...
This a lovely video. You should do "Im Walde Im Grunen Walde" next.
Cheers from a Dutchie in Australia.
This was my Grandma's Jam, she emigrated to the US from Germany in 1937.
Katyusha 🇷🇺 : like 👍
Erika 🇩🇪 : reply 🗨️
As a Canadian who has always been fascinated with Germany and all things German, please, enjoy and be proud of your people and culture. The German people have always contributed so much to the world in terms of music, literature, science, inventions, the list is endless
Even after losing in WWII for the second time, Germany became the locomotive of the entire EU, just like Japan in Asia. And some Muscovy (so-called ruzzia), having defeated these two countries and stolen other people’s territories, is still located at the level of developing countries. The Muscovites could never build a state on their own, without the Germans or other peoples of Europe.
PS: Sorry for my English, I am a Ukrainian who knows only ruzzian perfectly, and who has been studying English for over 10 years.
Dont call me a facist because I disagree with you, call me a facist because I align with facist ideas
Great beer drinking song!
This was stuck in my head and I knew that song was this awesome stuff