Who still knows the national anthem of former East Germany?

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Who still knows the national anthem of former East Germany?

 

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Here it is.

 

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Flag and anthem of East Germany​

 

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Here is the text in English:

Risen from the ruins
and turned toward the future,
Let us serve you for the common good,
Germany, united Fatherland.
Our task is to overcome old distress,
and we shall overcome it together,
and we shall surely succeed,
so that the sun, more beautifully than ever before,
𝄆 Shines over Germany. 𝄇

Auferstanden aus Ruinen - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

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Some comment about the anthems of East and West:

Comments by the state premier of the former East German state of Thuringia on Thursday have re-inflamed an old sore point between the two former Germanys. Some three decades after the reunification, Bodo Ramelow argued at the end of an interview with the Rheinische Post newspaper that many people from the former communist part of Germany did not sing along with the current anthem.

"I would prefer if we had a truly common national anthem," Ramelow, of the socialist Left party, said. "But up until now this wish has only called up outrage." At Friday's regular government press conference, Angela Merkel's spokesman Steffen Seibert did not offer outrage, but calm dismissal, saying that the chancellor, who grew up in East Germany, "finds our national anthem very beautiful, both in music and text."

German national anthem outcry re-inflames East-West divide – DW – 05/10/2019

An eastern German state premier, Bodo Ramelow, has said Germany should have a national anthem that all the country can sing along to. For him and others, the Nazi associations linger, and East Germans never got a choice.

www.dw.com

 

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Some East Germans argue like this:

"Now that East and West have been re-united, we now need a new flag and a new anthem for our new country. Not just the old flag of the West."
What would you say to that argument?

I have an answer to that.

 

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We might have a poll about German-lanugage hyms, including the hymns of Austria, Switzerland, and Liechtenstein.