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[quote=Anonymous]Someone up thread mentioned that Germans no longer sing "Deutschland uber alles."  Das Deutchlandlied is still the German national anthem, as it has been since 1922.  While the Nazis used the first stanza of the song as the official anthem and today the official anthem is the third stanza, the song itself was introduced is not a chauvinistic anthem, but a call for unity.  Germany, as anyone who has taken a World History course should know, was born out of the various German principalities and states of the Holy Roman Empire, excluding Austria.  The lyrics were written in 1841, a few years before the revolutions of 1848, and called for all Germans to unite in a "Germany over others," meaning a unified German state rather than the hodgepodge of principalities that existed until the declaration of the German Empire in 1870.

In Gore Vidal's Lincoln, someone comments that Lincoln did very much for the United States what Bismarck was doing for Germany, creating an "is' from an "are."  [/quote]

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