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 | | A bit of history: 'Das Lied der Deutschen' is just the German national anthem, and there is nothing Nazistic about it, although some people prefer to see it like that anyway. |
 | | To those people this song might be very provocative, but in fact the sentence "Deutschland Deutschland uber alles" refers to the partition of Germany in many different states at the time the song was written by the liberal Von Fallersleben. |
 | | The first verse begins with the notorious line "Deutschland, Deutschland über alles", but there's nothing reprehensible about it, if you consider the history and the fragmentation of Germany into lots of principalities in the first half of the 19th century. |
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