
Music and Lyrics by Carl
Wilhelm and Max Schneckenburger |
| Note: The song that the German officers sing around Sam's piano is "Die Wacht am Rhein" ("The Watch on the Rhine"). It is neither the German national anthem ("Das Lied der Deutschen" -- with music by Franz Joseph Haydn), nor is it the Nazi Party Anthem ("Das Horst Wessel Lied"). Even though "Die Wacht am Rhein" is presented in CASABLANCA as a kind of malignant musical pinnacle of Nazism, the piece is actually an old patriotic German song dating back to the 19th Century. |
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| Click on the Yale University Bulldog on the left, in order to find out about the "Die Wacht am Rhein" Yale University Connection. |