The birth and long life of 'Peat Bog Soldiers' on its 90th anniversary – People's World

Few of the hundreds of songs in the antifascist repertoire became as popular as the “Song of the Peat Bog Soldiers,” written 90 years ago at the Börgermoor concentration camp. This is its history. The rise of German fascism prompted an impressive musical culture directed against it.

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