1930s German Soldier's Song "Erika" (ANIMATED w/English Subtitles)

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  • čas přidán 19. 12. 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.
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  • @mr.fufu1437
    @mr.fufu1437 Před 2 lety +9052

    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.

    • @garanteicierto706
      @garanteicierto706 Před 2 lety +418

      Argentinean? I think your grandfather played a controversial role LMAO

    • @esoortypique3452
      @esoortypique3452 Před 2 lety +304

      @@garanteicierto706 it is precisely the joke Lol

    • @garanteicierto706
      @garanteicierto706 Před 2 lety +91

      @@esoortypique3452 right it makes a lot of sense know lol, I didn't catch it back then

    • @charlesnewman1403
      @charlesnewman1403 Před 2 lety +14

      wtff?

    • @garanteicierto706
      @garanteicierto706 Před 2 lety +43

      @BredBear how should I say that? I'm Argentinian, so English is not my native language

  • @xdlmao7880
    @xdlmao7880 Před rokem +1694

    Finally after more than 80 years, they released the official music video

    • @carstennono9196
      @carstennono9196 Před rokem +38

      They needed sum time to clear up sum other things beforehand

    • @EEEEEEEE
      @EEEEEEEE Před 6 měsíci +4

      E‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎

    • @alemmerenjamir7337
      @alemmerenjamir7337 Před 5 měsíci +8

      @@carstennono9196 I strongly believe it was a certain sum that needed sum time to be summed up

    • @AmethystNoir-Official
      @AmethystNoir-Official Před 4 měsíci +2

      Eevee!@@EEEEEEEE

    • @randykangas9390
      @randykangas9390 Před 3 měsíci +6

      @@carstennono9196 that’s some summary.

  • @ZaldunUrdina
    @ZaldunUrdina Před rokem +1531

    Allies: "They're probably singing about conquering the world or destroying their enemiers"
    Germans: "I found this flower, her name is Erika"

  • @Project.Rickshaw
    @Project.Rickshaw Před 7 měsíci +199

    still hits hard after 78 years

  • @AntonyMaridakis
    @AntonyMaridakis Před 2 lety +2774

    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......

    • @brycekleinschmidt438
      @brycekleinschmidt438 Před 2 lety +21

      Everything WWII Germany is Nazis to progressives. They just hate Germans. It's anti-german propaganda

    • @hulubalangmelaka2051
      @hulubalangmelaka2051 Před 2 lety +5

      @@brycekleinschmidt438 Aye, they think Germany only exist during 1933-1945

    • @melliteshastur4417
      @melliteshastur4417 Před 2 lety +178

      There are many more things you'd be surprised to learn

    • @ordenmanvrn7685
      @ordenmanvrn7685 Před 2 lety +112

      @@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(

    • @ashleycroydon9743
      @ashleycroydon9743 Před 2 lety +43

      Once you hear the english lyrics it hits more. Katyusha is another beautiful song

  • @zackkilgore528
    @zackkilgore528 Před 2 lety +5430

    It’s kinda sad that this song is unfairly stigmatized simply because the time period it was released.

    • @deadalkabob
      @deadalkabob Před 2 lety +282

      Even then it was still a folk song before it became composed in the 30s

    • @marchesofgermany2755
      @marchesofgermany2755 Před 2 lety +353

      Because CZcams want to remove my countrys beautiful songs and culture.

    • @YT_fudgie001
      @YT_fudgie001 Před 2 lety +105

      Wait. So did people think it was Nazi propaganda music?

    • @marchesofgermany2755
      @marchesofgermany2755 Před 2 lety +198

      @@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.

    • @YT_fudgie001
      @YT_fudgie001 Před 2 lety +31

      As Nazi music would be filled with hatred, kinda like the world now. We stand with Ukraine #nowarplease

  • @tankznstuff5173
    @tankznstuff5173 Před rokem +935

    This was my German grandpa’s favorite song!! It’s not a hate song it’s a love song!!

    • @tankznstuff5173
      @tankznstuff5173 Před rokem +35

      I know right 😂
      It’s sad what CZcams has done to it, one of my favorite versions recently got taken down

    • @someone18305
      @someone18305 Před 8 měsíci

      My grandpa killed Hitler

    • @DerEi1290
      @DerEi1290 Před 8 měsíci +1

      @@someone18305nice

    • @Quadruple-Vaxxed-Boomer
      @Quadruple-Vaxxed-Boomer Před 7 měsíci +45

      The hate comes from those who think they're the good guys because the media told them.

    • @Idkwhattoput151
      @Idkwhattoput151 Před 7 měsíci

      @@tankznstuff5173forget to change accounts?

  • @cukincharts2225
    @cukincharts2225 Před rokem +423

    Love this! Greetings from Argentina.

  • @siggests3192
    @siggests3192 Před 2 lety +180

    "What is the capital of France?"
    *Points to Berlin on map*

  • @williamseifert169
    @williamseifert169 Před 2 lety +1331

    This song is one of the main reasons why I decided to teach myself German

    • @producedbyenigma
      @producedbyenigma  Před 2 lety +112

      Hoffe es läuft gut.

    • @williamseifert169
      @williamseifert169 Před 2 lety +81

      @@producedbyenigma danke. Deutsch is schwer aber spaß

    • @waltervondervogelweide4638
      @waltervondervogelweide4638 Před 2 lety +37

      Viel Glück bei deinem Lernen. Du schaffst das!
      (Good luck with your learning. You will do it!)

    • @Narutouzumaki-fq5bm
      @Narutouzumaki-fq5bm Před 2 lety +3

      @@williamseifert169 ist

    • @mr.k4918
      @mr.k4918 Před 2 lety +8

      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)

  • @kweetniet1103
    @kweetniet1103 Před 6 měsíci +6

    non germans: AY NO BAD SONG NO NO ERIKA BAD
    germans: waht its about flowers bees and a girl

  • @burnitdown5828
    @burnitdown5828 Před 8 měsíci +66

    My German Shepherd raises his paw whenever he hears this song and I can never figure out why.

    • @producedbyenigma
      @producedbyenigma  Před 8 měsíci +6

      Maybe take him to the vet...

    • @burnitdown5828
      @burnitdown5828 Před 8 měsíci +8

      @@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

    • @lyndonanderson2900
      @lyndonanderson2900 Před 25 dny +6

      My Dachshunds do the same thing lol

    • @calgarycanada248
      @calgarycanada248 Před 9 dny +1

      Is he lookin' at you when he does ?
      You probably remind him of a certain dictator he knows in Israel.

    • @burnitdown5828
      @burnitdown5828 Před 9 dny +3

      Nah but he does start barking whenever he hears the word Israel.

  • @bkgrnd1337
    @bkgrnd1337 Před 2 lety +325

    *when you realise erika is about a cool little flower sourrounded with small bees*

    • @sebastianwendl603
      @sebastianwendl603 Před rokem +29

      A flower and a girl. Same name

    • @andreelindevall1203
      @andreelindevall1203 Před rokem +8

      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

    • @npc_virus_7306
      @npc_virus_7306 Před rokem +16

      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.

    • @DoubleUProds
      @DoubleUProds Před rokem

      You have to understand the germans just wanted to make the world a better place.... Their methods are ein klein bisschen zu rigorous however.

    • @BelgradeX
      @BelgradeX Před rokem +14

      *when you realise erika is about a cool little German sourrounded with Allies*

  • @edithpiaf7846
    @edithpiaf7846 Před 2 lety +2272

    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 ?

    • @james_poika3186
      @james_poika3186 Před 2 lety +171

      Like alot of german military marches, alot of german military songs talk about girls.

    • @lordofwar9638
      @lordofwar9638 Před 2 lety +115

      Many songs/cadences that soldiers march to are about a girl back home. This goes for MOST militarys around the world.

    • @Viet_Nam_Ball
      @Viet_Nam_Ball Před 2 lety +66

      Why can’t it be both?

    • @grtehertfrhre
      @grtehertfrhre Před 2 lety +32

      @@Viet_Nam_Ball based

    • @randysavage3660
      @randysavage3660 Před 2 lety +52

      Its a marching song to remind them of why they fight

  • @Kozak-20k
    @Kozak-20k Před 7 měsíci +164

    I thought that this was a dark song, but its actually so poetically sweet and beautiful

    • @Windmelodie
      @Windmelodie Před 6 měsíci +8

      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."

    • @GrosvnerMcaffrey
      @GrosvnerMcaffrey Před 4 měsíci

      Don't let propaganda influence you. Remember many Germans were just fighting for their homes too they were irrelevant to the Nazi party

    • @cohenworrior898
      @cohenworrior898 Před 4 měsíci

      Yes, especially when the German boots march all over your country.

    • @augustiner3821
      @augustiner3821 Před 3 měsíci +2

      everything, the Nazis touched, turned dark

    • @GrosvnerMcaffrey
      @GrosvnerMcaffrey Před 3 měsíci +1

      @@augustiner3821 jet airplanes would beg to differ

  • @t.hblank5511
    @t.hblank5511 Před rokem +133

    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.

    • @ekarn69
      @ekarn69 Před 7 měsíci

      It is a war song. It was made by herms niel who was a nazi and made for the wehrmacht.

    • @wasdas4360
      @wasdas4360 Před 6 měsíci +13

      And anyone who understands history will understand that it is, in fact, a war song.

    • @castheeuwes1085
      @castheeuwes1085 Před 6 měsíci +7

      @@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..

    • @DarthABBA
      @DarthABBA Před 4 měsíci +2

      yeah but its German so... I mean you don't start two world wars and not have your marching songs be sus forever.

    • @johnmoore1495
      @johnmoore1495 Před 4 měsíci +3

      @@wasdas4360still a banger, just don’t play it in Israel.

  • @shaunabraham2799
    @shaunabraham2799 Před 2 lety +732

    Now the kids can also learn it....very cool

  • @DeutschesWaifuReich
    @DeutschesWaifuReich Před 2 lety +424

    This song is stuck in my head and memorize every lyrics of the song... Even though I can't speak Deutsch

    • @nicodill3661
      @nicodill3661 Před 2 lety +6

      Deutsch* and i feel you bro the same all the time i start "AUF DER WEIDE" singing in ma head xd

    • @G6JPG
      @G6JPG Před 2 lety +5

      @@nicodill3661 Heide (heath), not Weide.

    • @olgagaming5544
      @olgagaming5544 Před 2 lety +1

      @@G6JPG weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeide*

    • @Confederate_Mapping
      @Confederate_Mapping Před 2 lety

      @@nicodill3661 Actually it is Deutsche.

    • @techterrier1490
      @techterrier1490 Před 2 lety +4

      @@Confederate_Mapping It can be used both ways depending on the sentence. In this situation it should be spelled *Deutsch*. (:

  • @christianmaxwell7169
    @christianmaxwell7169 Před rokem +319

    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 :)

    • @Lumotaku
      @Lumotaku Před rokem +49

      its also about a girl named Erika as it clearly states at the end of the song.

    • @Yenecol
      @Yenecol Před rokem +14

      That explains a lot. Why would a girl attract so many bees? Ha ha ha ha.

    • @blacklight9359
      @blacklight9359 Před rokem +37

      @@Lumotaku I think its about the flower reminding him of his fiance. Who may or may not be also called Erika

    • @Lumotaku
      @Lumotaku Před rokem +12

      @@blacklight9359 its not about an individual its about the flower waiting at home for you and her name is Erika its any soldiers girl.

    • @blacklight9359
      @blacklight9359 Před rokem +8

      @@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?"

  • @Based_Chameleon
    @Based_Chameleon Před 8 měsíci +27

    The english subs are actually excellent.

    • @producedbyenigma
      @producedbyenigma  Před 8 měsíci +1

      Thank you! As a non-German speaker I tried to get them as accurate as possible.

    • @arefkr
      @arefkr Před 6 měsíci

      Except their font is hard to read

  • @brandontabora8744
    @brandontabora8744 Před 2 lety +417

    A bright song for such a dark time.
    Interesting

    • @producedbyenigma
      @producedbyenigma  Před 2 lety +48

      The whole song is quite the juxtaposition.

    • @leopard2a7v46
      @leopard2a7v46 Před 2 lety +21

      It was made before the war by an german soldier

    • @leopard2a7v46
      @leopard2a7v46 Před 2 lety +8

      It was made before the war by an german soldier

    • @DriverBA
      @DriverBA Před 2 lety +9

      @@leopard2a7v46 i understood

    • @DriverBA
      @DriverBA Před 2 lety +8

      @@leopard2a7v46 i understood

  • @fishyc150
    @fishyc150 Před 2 lety +107

    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....

  • @user-dd6hu8br2t
    @user-dd6hu8br2t Před rokem +29

    My Austrian grandfather likes it, thanks u for the song and greetings from Argentina. 😇

  • @erikamoore6164
    @erikamoore6164 Před rokem +29

    Apparently I was named after this song! It was popular when my (german) father was a teenager. Erika means heather in german.

    • @paganphil100
      @paganphil100 Před rokem +1

      Erika Moore: Yes..."Erica" is the "horticultural name" for heather.

    • @Akasha92
      @Akasha92 Před 6 měsíci +1

      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.

  • @davidgiles4681
    @davidgiles4681 Před 2 lety +112

    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.

  • @sebastianbergmann87
    @sebastianbergmann87 Před 2 lety +805

    We in Germany say: Wunderschön dieses Lied🤝😘

    • @41Mike
      @41Mike Před 2 lety +22

      Absoluter Klassiker! Das ist Musik in meinen Ohren.

    • @jimbocoonass8622
      @jimbocoonass8622 Před 2 lety +23

      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.

    • @Pfirtzer
      @Pfirtzer Před 2 lety +8

      When are you going to march to East into Russia for Lebensraum?

    • @oellappen269
      @oellappen269 Před rokem +3

      The moment when you can come up with something funny.

    • @ololh4xx
      @ololh4xx Před rokem +2

      Ich kaufe ein Komma für 50.

  • @86scottjm
    @86scottjm Před 7 měsíci +34

    Imagine being in Germany in the 1930s and this absolute banger drops.

    • @arefkr
      @arefkr Před 6 měsíci +1

      Especially on your way back home from Hitler's speech. 100% anyone would become a Nazi.

    • @cohenworrior898
      @cohenworrior898 Před 4 měsíci

      And you can march all the way Moscow
      . . .
      and back.

    • @sp7873
      @sp7873 Před 3 měsíci

      Yeah I remember

    • @randykangas9390
      @randykangas9390 Před 3 měsíci +1

      @@cohenworrior898 Bring your snow shoes !

  • @williamkennedy5492
    @williamkennedy5492 Před 8 měsíci +6

    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.

  • @_revan1090
    @_revan1090 Před 2 lety +279

    bro the beats drops faster than frances defences...

    • @_pe4rsonnamed2025
      @_pe4rsonnamed2025 Před 2 lety +5

      Bruh yes

    • @ludiacontentstudios
      @ludiacontentstudios Před rokem +3

      LMAO but it is even faster than the fall of Poland.

    • @robertburke1486
      @robertburke1486 Před 4 měsíci

      or the way German forces surrendered like thousands of surrender monkeys when American, British and Canadian forces approached the Rhine in early 1945...

    • @Drymarro
      @Drymarro Před 3 měsíci

      @@ludiacontentstudios attacked by 2 of the biggest superpowers at the time from both sides sure.

    • @ludiacontentstudios
      @ludiacontentstudios Před 3 měsíci

      @@Drymarro I mean, I'm pretty sure France fell even quicker so I don't even think it was a bigger comparison.

  • @DADDY_5213
    @DADDY_5213 Před 2 lety +79

    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.

    • @UsefulClips
      @UsefulClips Před 6 měsíci

      That last verse . . . uh . . . the subtext . . . does that mean what I think it means?!

  • @blondkatze3547
    @blondkatze3547 Před rokem +16

    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.💞👩‍❤‍👨

    • @Dgubvo
      @Dgubvo Před 7 měsíci +2

      A true patriot of Germany and Europe. Best regards to family.

    • @craiggallup5706
      @craiggallup5706 Před 2 měsíci

      Or an Erik, innit?

  • @heinguy8560
    @heinguy8560 Před rokem +6

    In der Heimat weint um dich ein Mägdelein... Goosebumps!

  • @bumble1612
    @bumble1612 Před 2 lety +142

    For me, it's a beautiful folk song.

    • @zachbocchino5501
      @zachbocchino5501 Před 2 lety +9

      It is very great song but despite the lyrics, if you were to sing this in Germany, you would probably get arrested.

    • @Julian-ws7hv
      @Julian-ws7hv Před 2 lety +3

      @@zachbocchino5501 What a bullshit

    • @38vocan
      @38vocan Před 2 lety +5

      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 :)

    • @SR-zc6lk
      @SR-zc6lk Před 2 lety +5

      @@38vocan lol, no.

    • @38vocan
      @38vocan Před 2 lety +1

      @@SR-zc6lk you don't think it's catchy?

  • @tom5256
    @tom5256 Před 2 lety +37

    My grandmother was named Erika and she was from Berlin.

  • @chuckbrown5276
    @chuckbrown5276 Před 4 měsíci +4

    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

    • @Illyayakyys
      @Illyayakyys Před 4 měsíci

      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.

  • @EggertEggertsson-cz7ln
    @EggertEggertsson-cz7ln Před 2 měsíci +1

    I remember when I first heard this song, it was in Schindler’s list. Such joyful song in extremely dramatic and sad movie

  • @galihputrawicaksono334
    @galihputrawicaksono334 Před 2 lety +389

    can you make another german song with animation like this? because this video is absolutely fantastic

    • @producedbyenigma
      @producedbyenigma  Před 2 lety +49

      There will be many, many more!

    • @TremereTT
      @TremereTT Před rokem +6

      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.

    • @farfar1864
      @farfar1864 Před rokem +5

      @@TremereTT bro.... what the hell are you talking about? what you wrote has nothing to do with anything that they were talking about.

    • @Ocro555
      @Ocro555 Před 7 měsíci

      @@farfar1864 fr

    • @leifsolbrig332
      @leifsolbrig332 Před 7 měsíci +1

      @@TremereTT 🤓☝ ackshualy!

  • @erikakiss8802
    @erikakiss8802 Před 2 lety +21

    Meine name Erika!🙋‍♀️🤩😂 Ich gearbeite in Österreich schon 10-jahre war letzte in dem jahr, wie hausliche krankenschwester.

    • @leonii3314
      @leonii3314 Před 2 lety

      Erika ❤️ Ihr Name steht für Deutschtum

    • @producedbyenigma
      @producedbyenigma  Před 2 lety +1

      Meine Freundin ist Krankenschwester. Harte Arbeit. Harte Leute.

  • @Comrade-George-ep4nd
    @Comrade-George-ep4nd Před 8 měsíci +31

    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.

    • @Rossiray-gz6pr
      @Rossiray-gz6pr Před 5 měsíci

      Sounds like a way to get a lot of unnecessary hate messages…

  • @alvinsimon807
    @alvinsimon807 Před měsícem +4

    When you find out your grandfather was a serious Wolfenstein 3D cosplayer

  • @manstein_crmp8057
    @manstein_crmp8057 Před 2 lety +28

    das ist gut

  • @harbl99
    @harbl99 Před 2 lety +17

    Happy song about a flower that reminds you of a pretty girl back home.

  • @georgek007gr9
    @georgek007gr9 Před 8 měsíci +3

    My grandad from argentina who was a painter from Austria really liked it. Thank you for making my grandad smile

    • @cohenworrior898
      @cohenworrior898 Před 4 měsíci

      Painter from Austria eh.
      Somehow sounds familiar, but I can't put my finger on it . . . 😂 😂 😂

  • @joseluisceballos355
    @joseluisceballos355 Před rokem +7

    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.

  • @yakovmatityahu
    @yakovmatityahu Před 2 lety +20

    I played this to my Labrador Roxy now its became German shepherd Blondie.

  • @that1guyalex509
    @that1guyalex509 Před 2 lety +10

    ERIKA!!!

  • @carldavies2237
    @carldavies2237 Před rokem +14

    I'm English and its annoying that ppl assume this is a Nazi song! Its 100% not its good old German music thats all.

  • @chad8414
    @chad8414 Před 8 měsíci +8

    Not gonna lie, this shit goes hard.

  • @user-bq5lr6dq6b
    @user-bq5lr6dq6b Před 2 lety +30

    Обичам тази прекрасна песен! 🇧🇬🌹🙏✨❤️❤️

    • @Imperial-left
      @Imperial-left Před rokem +2

      Привет брат и друг болгарин

    • @liveforever141
      @liveforever141 Před 7 měsíci

      @@thatclonetrooperintheback they are bulgarian, and write in bulgarian.

  • @vsirrmk
    @vsirrmk Před 2 lety +43

    Greetings from Canada 🇨🇦 . Love German Christmas carols, love German marches, love German culture! Don't lose it, Germany! Be proud of it!

    • @overloadgaming1532
      @overloadgaming1532 Před 2 lety +3

      Same but I mostly study 1939 to 45 German culture because why da f*** not

    • @geewhiz5926
      @geewhiz5926 Před 2 lety

      @@overloadgaming1532 aside from the racism they were quite admirable

    • @overloadgaming1532
      @overloadgaming1532 Před 2 lety +3

      @@geewhiz5926 I know they were one of best on well disciplined Military at the time

    • @geewhiz5926
      @geewhiz5926 Před 2 lety

      @@overloadgaming1532 that's part of why I like them I have a distaste for disorderly conduct/behavior

    • @Metal_encyclopedia
      @Metal_encyclopedia Před rokem

      You too? I’m more interested in the tanks.

  • @ricardobrands9736
    @ricardobrands9736 Před rokem +9

    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

  • @mr.miyagi881
    @mr.miyagi881 Před rokem +2

    ah my ears are filled with lemons and sweets

  • @glocksmith226
    @glocksmith226 Před 2 lety +86

    This german song shows some of the the german accomplishments made by the german empire, like their invention of plane in 1904, and their creation of zeppelin air blimps

    • @jackakakreanxx5587
      @jackakakreanxx5587 Před 2 lety +3

      Only for the zeppelin to be near useless in combat due that its large and slow and in the air plus with the Hindenburg that hydrogen was not a good fuel source for a massive balloon plane hybrid

    • @ZuluLifesaBeech-
      @ZuluLifesaBeech- Před 2 lety +11

      THE AIRPLANE WAS AN AMERICAN INVENTION IN '03 You were wrong but I got you Wright! 🛩😂 🇺🇸

    • @formalist6096
      @formalist6096 Před 2 lety +1

      @@ZuluLifesaBeech- the airplane was invented by many different people with many different perceptions of an arial vehicle. The Wright brothers are only credited because of their status as Americans.

    • @hansgruber6455
      @hansgruber6455 Před 2 lety

      A few German inventions.............
      M24 Stick Grenade
      Gew43
      Panzerfaust 60M
      Tiger Tank
      Panther Tank
      King Tiger Tank
      STG44
      Me262 Schwalbe
      FW190 Butcher Bird
      V1/V2 Vergeltungswaffe

    • @_cry_about_it_1906
      @_cry_about_it_1906 Před 2 lety

      @@ZuluLifesaBeech- ever heard of gustav weißkopf? Also least retarded murican moment ig

  • @bikinibandit2398
    @bikinibandit2398 Před 2 lety +4

    I get misty eyed everytime I hear this song.

  • @bison2752
    @bison2752 Před 7 měsíci +7

    This song deserves a Grammy and to be on the billboard charts

  • @aronvstheworld
    @aronvstheworld Před rokem +10

    It's a actually a moving song... I really like it...

  • @ButterFly-zh8ho
    @ButterFly-zh8ho Před 2 lety +36

    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.
    czcams.com/video/SWU9WalsBEc/video.html
    czcams.com/video/wd-xW6XY_Js/video.html

  • @fixer1140
    @fixer1140 Před 2 lety +15

    Everybody gangsta until the trees start singing about a flower name Erika.

  • @fredericlaplante6959
    @fredericlaplante6959 Před 7 měsíci +9

    I named my daughter after this song.

  • @conjurerofspoons2361
    @conjurerofspoons2361 Před rokem +2

    This song be giving a good vibe

  • @martinwarner1178
    @martinwarner1178 Před 2 lety +63

    Love this music, must be my Saxon blood. Greetings from England. Peace be unto you.

    • @stoneytech2671
      @stoneytech2671 Před 2 lety +2

      Sure its the blood hehe also just catchy 😄

    • @Elliotknotfound
      @Elliotknotfound Před 2 lety +1

      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

    • @martinwarner1178
      @martinwarner1178 Před 2 lety

      @@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.

    • @johanvandermeulen9696
      @johanvandermeulen9696 Před 2 lety

      @@martinwarner1178 It ia really a point of discussion: are the British Germanics or Celts.

    • @martinwarner1178
      @martinwarner1178 Před 2 lety

      @@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.

  • @tede8927
    @tede8927 Před 2 lety +87

    Jawoll, sehr gut gemacht 💪🏻🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪👍🏻

  • @moldingpotatoes
    @moldingpotatoes Před rokem +4

    my fbi agent is going ot be wondering why ive heard this song 46 times in the past week.

  • @murilorosso8645
    @murilorosso8645 Před rokem +2

    FANTASTISCH...DANKE ..

  • @franksalvatore4094
    @franksalvatore4094 Před 2 lety +35

    I wish there could be other German songs with this type of animation.

  • @steampunkterminator3122
    @steampunkterminator3122 Před rokem +4

    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

    • @user-xj9xb9zl6p
      @user-xj9xb9zl6p Před rokem

      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

    • @Bialy_1
      @Bialy_1 Před rokem

      "(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...

  • @ferodeny
    @ferodeny Před 8 měsíci +3

    I really love this song, this video is awesome

  • @davidnorthdale1164
    @davidnorthdale1164 Před 8 měsíci +7

    I march with this song in my head. Love it.

  • @leopard2a7v46
    @leopard2a7v46 Před 2 lety +14

    Wunderbar

  • @GermanVisuals
    @GermanVisuals Před 2 lety +50

    Hello, I have been sent to inform you that this comment area is now German territory. xD

  • @PressedSteel1919
    @PressedSteel1919 Před 4 měsíci +3

    Call me any name you like....... Love it.

  • @TAKE_BACK_BRITAIN
    @TAKE_BACK_BRITAIN Před rokem +4

    I didn’t realize this song was so wholesome.

    • @jmvt3
      @jmvt3 Před rokem +1

      There’s a lot they don’t teach you about that time

    • @Bialy_1
      @Bialy_1 Před rokem

      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...

  • @blockheadwithaknife2921
    @blockheadwithaknife2921 Před 2 lety +56

    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.

  • @CaesarASchanzenbachReloaded

    Wonderful video! Clever and novel.

  • @mr.snezok
    @mr.snezok Před rokem

    Nice CZcams recommendations. Yet another peaceful and joyful German song, that I like to have as background noise for HoI4 playthroughs.

  • @BjornHeiden
    @BjornHeiden Před rokem +8

    This song is so beautiful

  • @jakeredrutherford1757
    @jakeredrutherford1757 Před 2 lety +4

    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

  • @ronwilliams4184
    @ronwilliams4184 Před rokem +3

    I used to have an lp with this and a number of other German marching songs on it. Sadly lost now. My mother had picked it up at the local thrift shop, lol, so it was probably part of what was left after someone's death.

  • @aurelianocaballero2232
    @aurelianocaballero2232 Před rokem +1

    you legend. Six months online! you made it

  • @felipescheuermann1736
    @felipescheuermann1736 Před 16 dny +1

    Love the music, greetings from Brazil, my grandfather would love to hear his vaterland songs, but he passed away some 20 years ago.

  • @mikebrase5161
    @mikebrase5161 Před rokem +4

    This was my Grandma's Jam, she emigrated to the US from Germany in 1937.

  • @darklanov
    @darklanov Před rokem +9

    I played this song in my car once, now it's a Panzer VI Tiger

    • @nobodyspecial4702
      @nobodyspecial4702 Před rokem +1

      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.

    • @darklanov
      @darklanov Před rokem

      @@nobodyspecial4702 Yes, I just mistakenly put the I on the wrong side of the V. I corrected it now

    • @nobodyspecial4702
      @nobodyspecial4702 Před rokem

      @@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.

  • @realkekec4028
    @realkekec4028 Před 7 měsíci +2

    Catchy tune.

  • @steiner554
    @steiner554 Před dnem

    GREAT animation! With the zeppelin, the double dekker of the red Baron, the alps, the castle and of course Erika :-D.

  • @idkk87
    @idkk87 Před 2 lety +87

    I showed my grandpa this, now he’s doing some weird high 5😂

    • @fixer1140
      @fixer1140 Před 2 lety +6

      You mean a weird force push? 🙋🏻‍♂️

    • @zachbocchino5501
      @zachbocchino5501 Před 2 lety +10

      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.

    • @zachbocchino5501
      @zachbocchino5501 Před 2 lety +2

      @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.

    • @nigelfarage2116
      @nigelfarage2116 Před 2 lety

      @@zachbocchino5501 AMERICANS HAVE NO HISTORY NO CULTURE NO LANGAUGE AND THEY ARENT FUNNY

    • @mrjeff_thesidekickthesidek4716
      @mrjeff_thesidekickthesidek4716 Před 2 lety

      hey mom where did our family start............................ OH 0-o

  • @thebusiness8212
    @thebusiness8212 Před rokem +16

    "Feeling cute, might invade France."
    -Erika, probably

  • @der.dicke.Michi.1312
    @der.dicke.Michi.1312 Před 4 měsíci +1

    Thank you for educating people on what this Song is really about

  • @leonaessens4399
    @leonaessens4399 Před 7 měsíci +2

    It's NOT in fact a German song. This one is an adaptation of the Dutch original that dates from the 17th Century. Dutch settlers brought the song to South Afrika where it became a "Boer" song.

  • @ray7419
    @ray7419 Před 8 měsíci +4

    Always loved this song.

  • @islandlife6591
    @islandlife6591 Před 2 lety +48

    I always listen to this song when I cross the border into France or Poland...

    • @cassubia
      @cassubia Před rokem +1

      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........

  • @billbright1755
    @billbright1755 Před rokem +3

    The drum cadence reminds me of volley firing of 88 millimeter main armament of Tiger tanks in echelon.
    A very precise and effective main gun and in the hands of expert panzer battalion commander could lay devastating effect on enemy tank units.

  • @Foxyloxy357
    @Foxyloxy357 Před rokem +2

    I like hearing this I heard this in a movie when I was a kid can’t remember the movie thou just a nostalgic war movie memory.

  • @ZuluLifesaBeech-
    @ZuluLifesaBeech- Před 2 lety +4

    I'm Kasey Kasell and still holding at #4 for the 10th week is "Erika" from Otto & Der Huns. A little band from Fulda. This is there first hit single since last Oktoberfest. 🍺 🎶🎵

  • @devekut2
    @devekut2 Před rokem +4

    Always good.

  • @zakthewarcat3172
    @zakthewarcat3172 Před 3 měsíci

    WOW that is cool I've heard this song in movies and never thought of the lyrics

  • @akel2685
    @akel2685 Před 6 měsíci +1

    THIS HARD! UR 2 SLEPT ON BRO KEEP IT UP

  • @matthewferro4449
    @matthewferro4449 Před 2 lety +10

    Even their love songs are rousing military marches!

  • @benjiesumatra9165
    @benjiesumatra9165 Před 8 měsíci +21

    What a beautiful song

  • @jkpesto
    @jkpesto Před 4 dny +1

    This majestic song with its ethereal harmonies and celestial cadence, transports listeners to realms beyond the mundane. Its opulent orchestration, adorned with cascading melodies and resplendent instrumentation, unfolds like a grand tapestry unfurled before the senses. Each note, imbued with a divine fervor, evokes a kaleidoscope of emotions, from exultation to introspection. As the melody unfurls its grandeur, it enraptures the soul, leaving an indelible imprint upon the heart's deepest chambers. Truly, this majestic song is an ode to the sublime, a testament to the ineffable power of music to elevate the human spirit to transcendent heights. It is so magnificent, it reminded me of my favorite quote of all time, "If you want the shine like the sun, you must first burn like it." My favorite world leader said this in I believe London, 1942, in some battle of WWII.

  • @tacticaldatatactical
    @tacticaldatatactical Před rokem

    just beautiful