Cover of GOTT ERHALTE FRANZ DEN KAISER in 1841 - lyrics Das Lied der Deutschen; in combination with Haydn's melody this became the anthem of the Weimar Republic in 1922 and the West German national anthem since the Olympic Games of 1952; during Hitler the first two stanzas were used, since 1952 only the third one ("Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit…")
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