6 Songs for Democracy--Discos de Las Brigades Internacionales, 1938 3-record set
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These songs were recorded during heavy bombardment of the International Brigades. In this album, Ernst Busch has recorded some of the best and most popular songs under very difficult circumstances.
- "The Four Generals" were Franco, Mola, Varela, and Queipo de Llano. Each was in command of one of the four columns advancing on Madrid.
- "Songs of the United Front" has been translated into most of the principal languages of the world. In this recording, Ernst Bush sings it in four languages: one verse each in Spanish, English, French, and the original German.
- "Songs of the International Brigades." The International Brigades were formed of anti-fascists who came to Spain from all over the world to defend Spanish democracy against German, Italian, and Spanish fascism.
- "The Thaelmann Column." This is the song of the Thaelmann Battalion, the first unit of the International Brigades to arrive in Spain, composed of German anti-fascists. At dawn on the morning of November 7, 1936, the inhabitants o Madrid were awakened by the firm tramp of disciplined troops marching through the city. They rushed to the windows, thinking that Franco's army had captured the city. What they saw was the first body of highly trained troops marching behind the purple, gold, and red banner of Republican Spain, the Thaelmann Battalion marching out to the Manzanates River west of the city. It was largely the heroism of the Thaelmann Battalion that saved Madrid then, when Franco was at the city's gates.
- "Hans Beimler." Hans Beimler, a deputy in the Bavarian Diet, was put into the concentration camp at Dachau early in 1933. He was one of the very few prisoners to escape from Dachau.
- "The Peat-Bog Soldiers." This song was written by an unnamed prisoner in a German concentration camp in 1933. The prisoners sang the last stanza with such emphasis that the Nazis finally forbade the song. This is the standard English version of the song.
- Originals made in Barcelona Spain, 1938.
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