Badenweiler Marsch
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The Badenweiler Mar(s)ch is a well-known Bavarian military march by Georg Fürst (1870-1936).
Fürst composed this tune as the Badonviller March for the Royal Bavarian Infantry Regiment. The title refers to fighting on 12 August 1914 near Badonviller (“Badenweiler”) in French Lorraine. The “bodies” achieved there at the beginning of the First World War signified a first victory against the French. The composer's lively two-tone entrance motif was by some accounts inspired by the duotonic sirens of field ambulances, with which the wounded were removed.
A favourite of Adolf Hitler's, the march was often played as the Führer's "entrance theme," if Hitler were to make an appearance somewhere. In features from the Nazi period or in newsreels (“Deutsche Wochenschau” etc) the march was also often pasted into the audio track as background music when appearances of Hitler were shown.
