In the May of '45 in Hamburg it was,
I sing you a song of that which happened,
It is the story, and many are the same,
Of the girl with the flag of the German Reich.
The girl was 15 when the enemy stood in the Reich,
But the heart didn't give up her battle for the Land,
And so she took to the hand in the bittermost peril,
The Flag of the Reich, black-white and -red.
On a motorcycle an Englishman came,
And saw the girl with the flag in her arm,
But it was not allowed to be that in his territory,
Someone still showrd the flag of the Reich.
He laughs at her and warningly yelled:
"Come, give me the flag, be good and smart!
Come, give me the flag, listen to my commandment!
Here no one shows the colors black-white and -red!"
"To let go of the flag you will force me not!
Sooner my blood will dye it!" she spitefully said,
"I still carry a knife and the life is the same,
If I die, I fall for the flag of the Reich!"
He climbed onto his bike with a pale face,
And drove his way as he quietly spoke:
"Why does a child now still go to her death?
Why this sacrifice for black-white and -red?"
And still on that eve, the flag did sink,
The armed girl couldn't leave his mind,
Her body was shot apart, her lips fully pale,
She died on that eve for the flag of the Reich.
The sacrifice of the girl - forget it never!
Never lose pride and fight like her,
until finally it is, that here, too, someday,
The symbols of the Reich can be shown again.
author of the song is Frank Rennicke.
Thanks to @kuchenfuchs for finding and translating this beautiful song.
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