TOMMIES’ WAR SONG

Greymouth Evening Star, 7 November 1939, Page 12

TOMMIES’ WAR SONG

NAZIS MORTALLY OFFENDED The British Tommies’ exuberant war song, “We’ll Hang Our Washing on the Siegfried Line,” has mortally offended Germany. German broadcasters . comment bitterly: “This is not a soldiers' song, because soldiers do not brag. It must have been written by the 8.8.C.’s Jewish scribes.” They add: “The Englishman’s washing will, be very dirty before they come anywhere near the Siegfried Line.”

A new German “Hymn of Hate” is published on the front page of Herr Julius Streicher’s newspaper “Der Stumer,” which proudly announces that the composer is a good Aryan — which recalls the fact that a Jew wrote the “Hymn of Hate” of the last war.

Each line is in the form of a question, with the answer: “England!” Examples are: “Who bears the guilt of the Polish War? Who gave the Polish murderers permission and aid? Who treads neutrals’ rights underfoot? Who torpedoes her own ships? Who is the Jewish traders’ friend? Who shoots down Belgian airmen? Who holds peoples in slavery and serfdom?”

The two-line refrain is: “England is the curse of the world. She knows but greed, and hate, and gold.”