Artist: Laura Duncan, Ernie Lieberman, Betty Sanders & Osborne Smith
Author: traditional
Label: Hootennany
Year: 1952

In German. Reissued on Bear Family box set Songs For Political Action ('96). Protest song banned during the nazi regime, reason why there are no older versions. The song was first published in songbook Lieder der Brienzer Mädchen in Bern and in 1842 in songbook Schlesische Volkslieder by Hoffmann von Fallersleben and Ernst Richter. Sophie Scholl played it in 1942 on her flute in front of the prison where her father was incarcerated for protesting against Hitler and the people of Berlin sang it in 1948 in approval of a speech by their Burgermeister Ernst Reuter while their city got blocked by the Russians.