Fascist Use Outside of Germany
During the 1930s and '40s, the Horst-Wessel-Lied was adapted by fascist groups in other European countries. One of the marching songs of the British Union of Fascists was set to the same tune, and its lyrics were to some extent modelled on the Horst-Wessel-Lied, though appealing to British Fascism. Its opening stanza was:
- Comrades, the voices of the dead battalions,
- Of those who fell, that Britain might be great,
- Join in our song, for they still march in spirit with us,
- And urge us on, to gain the fascist state!
In Spain, the Falange fascist movement sang to the same tune:
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In Vichy France the fascists of the radical Milice sang:
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