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MUNSTERMünsterMünster [mʏnstɐ] in Westphalia is a city of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The city has 304 708 inhabitants and is the seat of the administrative district of the same name. Münster is between Dortmund and Osnabrück in the center of Münsterland. Since 1915 Münster has the status of a large city. Today Münster has approximately 58,000 students and is one of the largest student cities with several universities. Münster is the seat of a Catholic bishop. In 799, Pope Leo III founded the bishopric of Münster, as well as the dioceses of Osnabrück, Minden and Paderborn. At present, the bishop of Münster is Felix Genn. In Germany, Münster is known as the city of bicycles and its historic center, which was restored little by little.

Lili Marleen

It is a classic in the annals of music. The story of Lili Marleen is the love song that shook the Germany of World War II and quickly spread to the other countries participating in the contest. Even today we remember it, and although it is not heard much, it has been successful for decades and is that it has behind a beautiful history of love in spite of its military connotations.

The song was sentimental and mysterious, catchy and beautiful. The German soldier Hans Leip, after being transferred to the Russian front during World War I, composed a poem in which he remembered his girlfriend, Lilí, daughter of a grocer of his town, in which he narrated how they said goodbye every night Under a street lamp at the barracks door.

In front of the barracks,

In front of the gate,

There was a street lamp,

And it is still there.

There we will meet again,

Under the lamppost we will be.

As before, Lili Marleen.

The success he had with the German population and troops was pure coincidence, since at the beginning of the war it was forbidden by the German propaganda minister, Josef Göbbels, thinking that with a nostalgic poetry the war could not be won, but the song that Already had jumped to the radio, began to hear in the barracks and the front and its success was unstoppable.

When the Germans entered Tobruk in June 42, they were surprised that an abandoned gramophone sounded their song in English. Never a song had been sung in a war by the contenders of both sides, each in their language, but that was what happened with "Lili Marleen". Months later, US Army soldiers, and even the Russians, would have their own versions. Before the end of the war, the song was translated into 48 languages ​​and was performed by many singers, becoming the most popular war song to date.

After the war the song was so popular that it was adopted by a large number of armies around the world, in a version sung or adapted as a military march, both with its original lyrics and adapted to the reality of each country. Film also paid attention to this phenomenon. In 1981, Rainer Werner Fassbinder directed the film "Lili Marleen" about the singer's story, based on her autobiography.

This song was the only cultural phenomenon during the Third Reich, which escaped the control of the German Propaganda Ministry. Perhaps it was, in the opinion of the American writer Steinbeck, "the only positive contribution of the Nazis to the world".

And in memory of them they made a monument, nowadays it is one of the monume.

Song   (Press)