Der Hügel der zehn Helden [The Hill of Ten Heroes]

Annotation — Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs [War Years]

Recordings of events during the II. Festival of Political Song 7th to 13th February 1971 in Berlin German Democratic Republic (GDR) Que il nostro Vietnam / Was ist unser Vietnam (Gruppe Il Contemporaneo) Vietnams Geschütze (Oktoberklub)

Annotation by Justin A. Brummer

Notes

Recordings of events during the II. Festival of Political Song 7th to 13th February 1971 in Berlin, East Germany [GDR] ETERNA 8 15 060 (VEB Deutsche Schallplatten Berlin), stereo LP; live recordings from the 2. Festival des politischen Liedes, Berlin, 7–13 February 1971 (Ag 511/01/74); sleeve essay Margot Schröder (1971); design Peter Porsch; Musikregie Karl Heinz Ocasek. Sung by ten Vietnamese students in the GDR (the Thanh-nien-Ho Chi Minh youth group); the song tells of ten FNL soldiers who held a hill on the Lala river against 200 attackers in February 1968. Recordings from events at the II. Festival des politischen Liedes, 7-13 February 1971, Berlin. Tracks A2, A4, A7, B1 feature Oktoberklub members; B3, B7 feature Venceremos Club members. Title page credits Armin Münch's painting 'Sieger der Geschichte'. Reissues 1973 and 1974 titled 'Wer, Wenn Nicht Wir (2. Festival Des…

About the artist

Group of ten young Vietnamese students studying in various cities of the GDR, named after the Vietnamese youth union (Thanh niên Hồ Chí Minh).

Themes

Anti-War · Combat · Festival of Political Song · NLF · VC · Vietnamese Patriotic

In collections

European Songs · Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs [War Years]