“Dear soldiers, dear listeners in the home country, dear friends beyond the borders: the fanfare is summoning the request Concert for the Armed Forces...”
So began Heinz Goedecke’s introduction to the Wunschkonzert für die Wehrmacht, the most popular radio show to be broadcast on German radio during the Second World War. From Waffen-SS grenadiers in Russia to Luftwaffe ground crews in Northern France, from infantry units of the Afrikakorps in the Western Desert to Marine coastal artillery batteries on the Channel Islands, from Fallschirmjäger in Crete to Kriegsmarine ship’s company on the high seas, this was their programme and each Sunday military life came to a temporary halt as young soldiers far from home were briefly reunited with their homeland and loved ones via the popular music of the Third Reich, from stirring marches to sentimental ballads, from comic tunes to unit songs.
Now, this totally unique radio series performed by a wonderful array of war-time German artistes and bands including Oscar Joost, Erwin Hartung, SS-Stormsoldaat der NSB, Bernhard Ette, Musikkorps der Wachbataillons Berlin, Adabert Lutter, Reichsmusikzug der RAD, Blasorchester Kurmark, Parlophone Militär Orchester, Wilhelm Strienz, Lale Andersen, Der viel Richters, Hohner Handharmonika Klub and Die ‘Singen Kameraden’, amongst many others, has been digitally re-mastered by British music engineers to offer you a rare 6-CD Collector’s Edition of some 96 stirring & moving performances including:
Gerda Ursula Marie - Drei Mädels - Unter einem Regenschirmmam abend - Das ist Berlin - Wenn das Schifferklavier Glocken der Heimat -Kann doch einen Seeman - Einmal am Rhein - Heimat deine Sterne - Unter den roten Laterne - Tapfere Klein Soldatenfrau - Antje mein blondes kind - Die Landpartie - Narvik Lied - Kartner Liedermarsch - In Schutzenhaus ist Blasmusik - Tante Anna - Wir Kameraden den Weissen Berg - Einzugsmarch - Erika - Kreuzritter Fanfare - Hannelore - Es ist so schon, Soldat zu Sein - Dort wo die sieben Berg - Pariser einzugmarsch - Das Schonste auf der Welt- Leb' wohl Irene! - Schon ist's bei den Soldaten - Fruhlings einsugmarsch - Ein jedes Madel liebt das Militar - Im Kahlenberger Dorfel - Der Kreuzfideler Kuperschmied - Weine nicht, Mutterlein - Hoch Heidecksburg - Soldat in Polen - Argonner Marsch - Schwarzbraun ist die Haselnuss - Lebe wohl, du kleine Monika - Nur auf die Minute - Regimentskinder - Siegfried Linie -Skilauferlied - Bayerischer Avanciermarsch - Wovon kann der Landser - Jawoll, das stimmt, Jawoll! - Es leuchten die Sterne - Fehrbelliner Reitermarsch - Tirol, mein Heimatland and Max und Moritz...
We are pleased to confirm that both of our 6-CD titles are not merely 2 compilations of our other musik titles but entirely separate & differing selections not found on our other CDs and vice-versa! Apart from our Third Reich Favourites CD (which is a sample compilation of 8 tracks of each of the two 6-CD sets and our professional TV/Movie supply CD), we do not ‘double up’ or replicate any of our original musik tracks across any of our single or 6-CD sets).