They are wearing stahlhelms again and doing torchlit parades in front of the leader. Do they not know this is a very bad aesthetic for them, does the Red Army need to roll into Berlin again since they obviously didn't learn their lesson from last time.

  • BolsheWitch [she/her, they/them]
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    3 years ago

    The DDR changed pretty much the entire march and turned it into an explicitly anti-fascist ritual lol

    Nerd deets if you give a fuck

    East German

    The East German Großer Zapfenstreich, although using the Prussian practice, was different in all respects. Its components, when summarized, are as follows:

    • Formation march in, the military band plays the NVA Parade March no.1
    • Formation halts in place, torchbearers post march followed by the formation turning into lines Formation then stands at ease, then falls in to be dressed
    • Opening fanfare by the military band, fanfare section and timpanists
    • Report of the commanding officer for the beginning of the ceremony proper

    Großer Zapfenstreich proper:

    • Locken zum Zapfenstreich (Announcing the tattoo) by the drummers and fifers
    • Preußischer Zapfenstreichmarsch (Prussian Tattoo March) by the band and the drummers and fifers
    • Festliche Zapfenstreichmusik (Festive Zapfenstreich Medley) by the band, Corps of Drums, fanfare section and timpanists. The medley is a potpourri of the various German and international socialist songs arranged for the band.
    • First fanfare by the fanfare trumpeters and timpanists
    • Ehrung der Opfer des Faschismus und Militarismus (Honors to the victims of Fascism and Militarism): the color guard marches in slow time to the center, then when it halts the color is then lowered to the tune of the Russian revolutionary funeral march "You Fell Victim" by the military band in honor of all those who died during the first German Communist revolutions of 1918-19, the Nazi regime and the subsequent resistance during the Second World War, and after the color is recovered the color guard marches off in quick time back to its place to the tune of the Corps of Drums
    • Second fanfare by the fanfare trumpeters and timpanists
    • Nationalhymne der DDR (National Anthem of the German Democratic Republic - Auferstanden aus Ruinen) by the band, fanfare section and timpanists Zapfenstreichfinale (Grand finale of the Zapfenstreich) by the military band, fanfare section and timpanists - "For the Peace of the World" by Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich
    • Reformation of the torchbearers
    • Parade falls in attention and forms again into parade order
    • March off and march past, the military band plays the Yorckscher Marsch as the parade marches past the dignitaries and when it marches off.