Norbert Schultze, German composer best remembered for the moody “Lili Marleen,” which became a World War II favorite of infantrymen in various languages on all fronts, has died. He was 91. Schultze ...

Norbert Schultze, the German composer best remembered for the moody "Lili Marleen" that became a World War II favorite of infantrymen in various languages on all fronts, died Oct. 14 in Bad Toelz, ...

ON the outbreak of the first world war, Sir Edward Grey, Britain’s foreign secretary, stated that “the lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.” When ...

All across the trenches of World War II, soldiers from around the world were fascinated by the same song. DW looks back at the first broadcast of the song 'Lili Marleen' on April 18, 1941 by Radio ...

BOOK REVIEW: Roberts Gerwarthreviews Lili Marlene: The Soldiers' Song of World War IIby Liel Leibovitz and Matthew Miller, W.W. Norton, 256pp, €21 ON THE evening of August 18th, 1941, in the midst of ...

The third in a four-part series looking at the origins of some of the world's most popular melodies In 1915, as a 22-year-old soldier fighting in the First World War, Leip wrote his poem to express ...

Stories of love, loss and friendship through the WW2 song Lili Marlene, made famous by Marlene Dietrich and sung by soldiers on both sides. Show more It tells the story of Alexander Franks deployed ...