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Hoping to build "the better Germany," many Jewish artists and intellectuals left their mark in the former communist East Germany. A small community kept religious practices alive, despite Soviet repression.
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.