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Post by pjotr on Nov 20, 2022 11:22:31 GMT 1
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Post by pjotr on Nov 20, 2022 11:11:01 GMT 1
Of course my First real encounter with sharks was with Jaws, later I was for a while addicted to shark movies, even ridiculous B-movies about huge sharks or sharks that are half octopus or crocodile.
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Post by pjotr on Nov 20, 2022 10:33:48 GMT 1
Bonobo,
Sharks have their ecological function. They are the cleaners of the oceans. They are predators but they are also prey. An estimated 100 million sharks are killed per year throughout the world by humans, a startlingly high number and one that is greater than the recovery rate of these populations.
Shark finning is a specific type of shark fishing, wherein fishermen hunt solely for shark skin and flesh, which in turn, can be used for merchandise, food and other purposes.
The rate of finning has increased dramatically since 1970, which accounts for the drastic decrease in shark population since then.
Shark fin soup is a popular delicacy in China and other East Asian countries, which rely on a consistent shark finning industry in order to prepare the dish.
In a cruel act, many sharks are then returned to the sea following their de-finning, with many of them sadly bleeding to death due to a lack of a crucial body part that enables them to swim.
The number of sharks killed by humans on an annual basis doesn’t even come close to approaching the amount of human-induced shark killings.
A 100 million-to-six ratio certainly doesn’t appear fair, and the manner in which popular culture depicts sharks to the average human being only worsens human perception of these sea predators.
In fact, you have 3,748,067 to 1 odds of ever being killed by a shark, very low by most standards.
No matter what your perception of sharks is, one thing is clear: your chances of getting killed by one is close to minuscule.
Sharks are killed at an alarmingly high rate when juxtaposed against the rate at which they kill human beings, despite what popular culture may indicate.
An increase in shark fishing and finning doesn’t help matters, and efforts should be made to reduce these practices.
If you ever encounter a shark, don’t try to kill it. Instead, let these creatures roam the oceans freely in an effort to preserve their remaining population.
Pieter
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Post by pjotr on Sept 22, 2022 19:22:45 GMT 1
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Post by pjotr on Sept 22, 2022 19:19:29 GMT 1
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Post by pjotr on Sept 22, 2022 19:18:12 GMT 1
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Post by pjotr on Aug 9, 2022 15:55:17 GMT 1
Folks,
The story of that one Polish man with his German (“Germanized”) sister is tragic. He grew up Polish and she as a German girl and woman and still lives in Germany. Their parents were brutally murdered by the Waffen SS in Poland. The story is hard to listen too. Also the story of the Germanized Polish child Hermann Lüdeking born as Roman Roszatowski in Łódź (1940–1945 Litzmannstadt). Roman Roszatowski grew up as a German and is a German in his eighties, but he found out that his German parents were not his real parents and he remembers the Lebensborn home Sonnenwiese in Kohren-Sahlis, a town and a former municipality in the Leipzig district, in Saxony, Germany. Since January 2018, it is part of the town Frohburg.
Hermann Lüdeking did not go to his mothers funeral because she didn’t like his search for (after) his Polish roots and heritage.
From 1 November 1942 to 14 April 1945 the children's home "Sonnenwiese", which was operated by the SS Lebensborn organization, was located in Kohren-Salis. Primarily children abducted from Norway were placed here before they were passed on for adoption to families loyal to the Nazi system. But also children from Poland which had to be ‘Aryanized’ and ‘Germanized’ were there. Polish children with blue eyes, blond hair, strong build, that could be perfect German children in the eyes of Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler ( 7 October 1900 – 23 May 1945).
The official opening of “Sonnenwiese" (engl. "Sun Meadow") took place after reconstruction in November 1942. The Lebensborn home had a maximum capacity of 170 seats. On average, there were 130 children housed. Most children were under three years old, some were up to six years, very few children were older. The care of the children was taken over by up to 20 sisters, three learning sisters, ten nursing students and three educators. The home "Sonnenwiese" also played a role in the "Germanization" of foreign children from Poland, Yugoslavia and Norway - reliable figures are not available here. Most foreign children came from Norway, mostly by air. In 1943/44 200 children were brought from Oslo to Germany, of which 150 were recorded in Kohren-Sahlis. But not only abducted children but also anonymously released (illegitimate) children were housed in the home. Also some children from Norway were children of Wehrmacht soldiers that were sent to Germany with the consent of the Norwegian mothers and at the pressure of their families. Folks, the fate of these 'Norwegian' Lebensborn children was terrible after the war, the children of German Wehrmacht
In Norway, children born to Norwegian mothers by German fathers were allegedly often bullied, raped, abused, and persecuted by the government after the war, and placed in mental institutions. The Norwegian government attempted to deport Lebensborn children to Germany, Brazil, and Australia but did not succeed. Many Norwegian Lebensborn children had difficult lives as teenagers and adults, suffering from depression, some of them became psychiatric patients and some of them committed Suicide. Lebensborn was a curse on their lives. A group of Lebensborn children sought compensation from the Norwegian government, who they saw as being complicit in their mistreatment. In 2008, their case before the European Court of Human Rights was dismissed as the events had happened too long ago, but they were each offered an £8,000 payment from the Norwegian government. One of these Norwegian 'Lebensborn' children was the later singer of the world Famous Swedish pop group Abba, Anni-Frid Lyngstad. ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anni-Frid_Lyngstad )
Lebensborn child Anni-Frid Lyngstad, daughter of a Norwegian mother and a German Wehrmacht soldier
What a suffering these children went through, the Polish ones, but also the ones taken from Yugoslavia, the SovietUnion and Norway. Imagine being taken away from your parents, being transported abroad to a country, people, culture, place, language and atmsophere you don't know. The important security, safety, protection, being take well care of and being cherished and nurtured by your parents is taken away from you. That often had life long consequences, pyscholigical and psychiatric problems, longing for parents and family members you never met but knew that they existed (for these children that remember their abduction or found out later that their German parents were not their real parents like in the tragic case of Hermann Lüdeking, who real name was Roman Roszatowski. You see in the Deutsche Welle (DW) documentary that Hermann (Roman) isn't happy and struggle whole of his life to find his roots, find out whom his Polish parents were, if they were still alive or died and if there were family members left. Hermann Lüdeking is a German, but he knows that in reality he is not a German at all, and that his real name is Roman Roszatowski. He was not allowed to be Roman Roszatowski, and was forced to be Hermann Lüdeking. Who is Hermann Lüdeking, is he the 80 years old German Hermann Lüdeking or is the 80 years old Pole Roman Roszatowski who lived in Germany most of his life?
Pieter
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Post by pjotr on Aug 9, 2022 11:52:24 GMT 1
DW DocumentaryOn orders from Heinrich Himmler, Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffel (Protection Squadron; SS), the Nazis abducted children from Poland for forced Germanization. Hermann Lüdeking (Roman Roszatowski), Jozef Sowa and Alodia Witaszek have never met, but they shared the same fate.
Tears still come to Jozef Sowa’s eyes when he talks about his life. His parents were murdered by Wehrmacht soldiers in Poland in 1943, and he and his four siblings were taken to Germany. Four of them managed to return to Poland. But his younger sister Janina was given up for adoption - as a supposedly German child. She still lives in Germany today. This kidnapping was planned. In 1941, Himmler, who headed the Nazi SS, gave the order to "gather young children who are especially racially suitable from Polish families and for us to raise them in special modestly-sized kindergartens and children’s homes."
Professor Isabel Heinemann explains, "By so doing, he aimed to build up the German race." For years, the historian has been researching the fates of the estimated 50 thousand children in Europe who were snatched. The largest group comes from Poland. Without their biological parents to protect them, the children were given to German families by the "SS Race and Resettlement Main Office." Their names and dates of birth were changed to obscure their true identity.
After the war ended, those whose origins could be traced returned to their homelands. But their native countries had often become foreign to them and being singled out as a German "Hitler child" made reintegration difficult. Those responsible for the kidnapping were never brought to justice.-------------------------------------------------------------------- Deutsche Welle (DW) Documentary gives you knowledge beyond the headlines. Watch high-class documentaries from German broadcasters and international production companies. Meet intriguing people, travel to distant lands, get a look behind the complexities of daily life and build a deeper understanding of current affairs and global events.
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Post by pjotr on Jun 19, 2022 9:50:10 GMT 1
This documentary is possible not available or might not be accessible in North America. I hope you can see it in Poland. It gives an interesting insight in Polish-Ukrainian history.
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Post by pjotr on Jun 19, 2022 9:47:56 GMT 1
Polish Solidarity on the Ukrainian Border Since 24 February 2022, when the Russian invasion of Ukraine began, several million refugees have already been taken in by Poles. In the Lublin region, near the Bug River, which marks the border with Ukraine and Belarus, farmers, shopkeepers, a photographer and a teacher tell how their daily lives have been transformed by the outbreak of this war. www.arte.tv/en/videos/108686-000-A/polish-solidarity-on-the-ukrainian-border/
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Post by pjotr on May 28, 2022 9:33:38 GMT 1
Bo, Wonderfull thread this one. Illustrative and detailed images. Thank you for this Report Bo and thank you for your reply. Pieter from an increasingly secularised Netherlands where churches are demolished or become hotels, concert halls, skating halls or apartment buildings or health care centres. Only the Dutch Bible Belt is stil predominantly Christian. And maybe some Roman Catholic enclaves in the South and the Roman Catholic fishermen town Volendam in the North-West in North Holland. When I look at all these Polish Roman Catholic tradiotions, religious days like Christmas, Pentecost, Easter, the Feast of the Ascension and the Assumption of Mary, and the Holy mass and the Catholic community life, the 7 sacraments, and the rich Roman Catholic pillar we had in the 19th and 20th centuries (from the 19th century until halfway the sixties) we have lost a religious life, spirituality, Catholic values, the beauty of Catholic life, rituals, community, culture and education, a lot is lost in the Netherlands. The Rich Catholic pillar had it’s churches, cathedrals, Basilicas, Prince Bishop pallaces, monasteries, universities, kindergarten, primary schools, highschools, Boarding schools, monasteries, poltical party ( en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_People%27s_Party ), Catholic Union ( en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Catholic_Trade_Union_Federation ), the Catholic Workers Movement (Katholieke Arbeidersbeweging, KAB), Catholic Radio & TV Broadcast Corporation KRO-RKK ( en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katholieke_Radio_Omroep ). Today Roman-Catholicism enters the Netherlands with Roman-Catholic migrants from Poland and other Roman-Catholic countries. It is common that there are several masses in a Dutch Roman Catholic Church each Sunday and probsbly also on other days. For instance Polish mass at 9:00 AM and Dutch mass at 11:00 AM and another mass at 16:00 hours PM. The Dutch Roman Catholic parishes are struggling to survive and suffer from aging. Younger generations don’t go to church, only great grandparents, grandparents and some parents. Secularisation, Sport on Sunday, Secular culture and Music, Social life (Social gathering), nature (walking and cycling in parks and forests) and one day trips in the Netherlands, Belgium, England and other places seem to have replaced Holy mass, communion and thus Roman-Catholic spiritualism. The secularisation process started in the sixties. If you look at countries like Ukraine, Russia, Poland and Greece I see that the secularisation despite or maybe due to Communist atheism hasn’t decreased but stayed similar. Christian traditions, customs and religious life seem to be stronger rooted there and recent suffering maybe gave people comfort and power in Christianity and the suffering of Christ? Pieter Cheers, Pieter
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Post by pjotr on May 27, 2022 18:01:40 GMT 1
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Post by pjotr on May 27, 2022 17:57:19 GMT 1
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Post by pjotr on May 27, 2022 17:56:14 GMT 1
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Post by pjotr on May 27, 2022 17:54:52 GMT 1
Poland has always been a very open country to new music genres and even before the fall of the communism, music styles like rock, metal, jazz, electronic, and new wave were well-known.[8] Since 1989, the Polish scene has exploded with new talents and a more diverse style.
Every year, a huge gathering of young Poles meet to honour the rock and alternative music in Jarocin, Żary, at Woodstock Festival Poland in Kostrzyn nad Odrą and at Open'er Festival and Off Festival. These events often attract more than 250,000 people and are comparable to the gatherings in Woodstock and Roskilde.
In jazz music, Polish musicians created a specific style, which was most famous in 1960s and 1970s. Some prominent Polish jazz artists are: Krzysztof Komeda, Zbigniew Namysłowski, Adam Makowicz, Tomasz Stańko, Włodek Pawlik, Michał Urbaniak, Leszek Możdżer. Some of the most popular and commercially successful Polish vocalists of 20th and 21st centuries are Czesław Niemen, Edyta Górniak, Myslovitz, Doda, Maryla Rodowicz, Kamil Bednarek, Ewa Farna, Agnieszka Chylińska, Sylwia Grzeszczak, Michał Szpak, Edyta Bartosiewicz, Anna Maria Jopek, Kasia Nosowska, Dawid Podsiadło, Sarsa, Monika Brodka and Margaret.
Two contemporary big Polish music festivals are Opole Festival and Sopot Festival. Among other important festivals there are: Jazz Jamboree, Rawa Blues Festival and Wratislavia Cantans.
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Post by pjotr on May 18, 2022 1:39:11 GMT 1
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Post by pjotr on May 18, 2022 1:38:21 GMT 1
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Post by pjotr on May 18, 2022 1:38:03 GMT 1
Punk in Poland of the 1980sAnarchist Autonomous Punk rock sing of the eighties, used by Anarchist squaters29th July – 2nd August 1986, a rock festival in Jarocin, Polish Peoples Republic, photo: Wojciech Druszcz / Karta CentreIn Poland of the 1980s punk rock involved the tough and aggressive music as well as the ideology that were banned. Regardless of a communist state hostility, the Polish punk has survived and is still popular in some social circles.
Provocation and rebellion were two essential values that might have been regarded as a source of inspiration for the Polish punk artists' creation. The song's text has been always important regarding the Polish punk rock music. The lyrics by Polish punk bands were against: conformity, mass production and consumption, stupidity, social inequality, communist system hypocrisy. Punk music in Poland gave an opportunity to express the opinions that were basically contrary to the views held by the communist Polish state in the1980s. Thus, the punk music those times was censored by the red Polish authorities. Unlike other genres of rock music such as: heavy metal rock, classic rock, new romantic, disco, italo disco, or even black metal, Polish punk rock was not allowed to participate in the market. One must know that the communist Poland in the 1980s was not entirely cut off from the Western culture's influence. The rock music by American and European bands was available to ordinary people, fans. However, the Polish show business was not interested in punk rock bands because their creation and activities were slightly "politically incorrect". The Polish establishment would rather promote any other sort of music. Punk was perceived as a danger to "the People's democracy". Paradoxically, the communist state prohibition of punk creations made it much more popular amongst the Polish youth. In response to the state sanctions against popularizing punk, the unofficial distribution system of the punk music occurred. The tapes as well as the vinyl records containing the music that could not have been bought in any shop or store were given from hand to hand.
The punk creation seemed to be based on the sincerity and frankness of artists. The songs were devoted to every day problems encountered not only by the adolescents but also the adults living in those hard times. The Polish punk of the 1980s was an anticommunist movement. Furthermore, some punk movement followers also belonged to the independent associations that fought back against the communism and the red hypocrisy in "people's republic of Poland". We must focus our attention on NZS (The Independent Youth Association) and SOLIDARNOŚĆ (Solidarity). NZS, SOLIDARNOŚĆ and punk were illegal in the communist Poland. Moreover, SOLIDARNOŚĆ and punk formed an antitotalitarian front. SOLIDARITY members represented a variety of professions, points of view, values, social classes and mores, religions, education levels. During that historical period in Poland all of them were united in their battle against communism and totalitarism. The readers in the West should have known that SOLIDARITY was very popular among the musicians and fans of punk rock in the Western Europe, USA and Canada. For example, a smashing British band ANGELIC UPSTARTS dedicated their song entitled: "Solidarity" to the Polish movement. The lyrics should have paid a tribute to the pioneers - workers of "Lublin July", that is still so easy to forget (FSC LUBLIN, WSK ŚWIDNIK) and "Gdańsk August". The crews of those factories were the first, in the entire country, who went on strike not only for a better pay but to rebel against the Polish communist state tyranny. Polish punk rock in the 1980sStill from the film 'History of Polish Rock', photo: press releaseTaking into account the Polish punk rock, it originated quite when the Polish strikes took place. The first Polish punk rock bands were: SS 20 (DEZERTER nowadays), KRYZYS, BRYGADA KRYZYS (Tomasz Lipiński - the leader of that band established a little bit later cool TILT), SIEKIERA, TZN XENNA, MOSKWA, PROWOKACJA, KARCER, REJESTRACJA, T.LOVE ALTERNATIVE, KULT, KOBRANOCKA, ŚMIERĆ KLINICZNA. In Poland of the 1980s it was not anything uncommon to see the agents called "Ubeks" or "Sbeks" during the punk rock gigs. They were manipulating with skinheads and hooligans to make them hostile and aggressive towards the punk rockers. The musicians of the Polish punk bands as well as the fans were sometimes treated as "class enemies" (enemies of the People's democracy).Jarocin was bustling with punks activity in the 1980sNocne Szczury were a Polish punk rock band from Władysławowo. The fans of punk rock in Poland gathered also in Jarocin not far away from Poznań. As far as I know Jarocin became a famous place after the festival of the independent music had been held there. Polish punks that came from various sites of Poland (East, West, North and South) used to meet there. Jarocin in the 1980s was the capital of the nonconformist art. The bands that played concerts and their fans in Jarocin felt free to show that the communist reality in Poland, they were forced to put up with, was a nuisance. They were also systematically and carefully watched by the secret agents and militia. It happened that some artists or punks were arrested for their look, strange behaviour or the pogo. Pogo dance was often misinterpreted by the Polish militia as an extreme form of a teenage aggression. Fortunetely, later they found out that it was just a punk ritual that could have symbolized helplessness, worthlessness, simplicity and the feeling that the punks' unity was strength.An Unofficial newspaper - a fanzineTo end with, the thing that is worth writing concerns an unofficial newspaper (a fanzine). It was actually invented by punk rockers. As for the cool Polish punk fanzines, their creators had got the guts to present all the stuff that was forbidden by communists those times. Thus, the Polish fanzine was an underground newspaper. Afterwards, the fans and artists representing other kinds of music, especially heavy metal rock, borrowed the idea of fanzine from punks.
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Post by pjotr on May 18, 2022 1:28:07 GMT 1
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Post by pjotr on May 18, 2022 1:24:10 GMT 1
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Post by pjotr on May 18, 2022 1:22:12 GMT 1
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Post by pjotr on May 18, 2022 1:21:36 GMT 1
The Polish bands sound pretty much like the American Punks of the Angrey Samoans. Polish Punk Rock was also political, it was an Anarchist reaction against the Polish communist system, forced collectivism and forced conformity of the Socialist state system.
As a young man you could/can get a lot of anger out in Pogo dancing and listening to this music. Beling released of anger, irritations and frustrations about things without doing harm.
The same with Hard Rock and Heavy Metal. Motörhead was a band in the borderzone between Hard rock, Punk-rock and Heavy Metal
The band has quite a lot of fans in Poland too. This is a concert of Motörhead in Warsaw.
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Post by pjotr on May 5, 2022 23:23:49 GMT 1
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Post by pjotr on May 5, 2022 23:19:21 GMT 1
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Post by pjotr on May 5, 2022 22:59:11 GMT 1
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Post by pjotr on May 4, 2022 20:09:32 GMT 1
The Second World War left scars in old people who survived Gestapo or SD prisons, Concentrationcamps, the execution of their parents. Such old Dutch people today said on national tv that the things that are happening in Ukraine and the images they see brings back the Second World War back to them. Fear, anxiety, bad sleeping and old images that hounted them came back, because some of the terrible images they saw of suffering women, children, elderly or abused or dead soldiers reminded them of their time from 1940-1945 in the Netherlands, but also abroad as slave workers in Germany that suffered under bad treatment and allied bombings in Germany, people that were in German/Austrian Nazi concentration camps in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Poland or the Czech Republic.
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Post by pjotr on May 4, 2022 19:56:43 GMT 1
Fire of Freedom
The eternal Freedom Fire burns in Wageningen, City of Liberation. The Fire of Freedom is the symbol for living in peace and freedom. Every year on May 4 at midnight, the fire is received in order to be able to ignite the Freedom Fire on May 5 in the rest of the Netherlands.
In 2020 everything was different; we lived in a time where we felt what limitation of freedom is. We had an invisible face. Not comparable to wartime but, it was indeed.
That is why we handed over the Freedom Fire to fire bearers that year on May 4 at 21.00. These were individuals who carry with them a story of the impact of war. These fire bearers collect the fire to the cities where Liberation Festivals normally take place on May 5. Together with this fire, the Freedom Fire was ignited throughout the Netherlands at midnight.
We commemorated 75 years of freedom in 2022. We marked this moment by lighting the fire. For them, all offers, with the realization that our freedom is not self-evident.
Firebearers of the Liberation Festivals in 2020 Liberation Festival Zeeland in Vlissingen by Stef Traas (35) Liberation Festival Groningen by Maureen de Witte (19) Liberation Festival Fryslân in Leeuwarden by Ronald Nooter (60) Liberation Festival Drenthe in Assen by Alfred Kool (64) Liberation Festival Limburg in Roermond by Rachel Schepers (50) Liberation doll in Haarlem by Dieuwertje Blok (62) Liberation Festival South Holland in Rotterdam by Cheryl Bartelings (59) Liberation Festival The Hague by Mostafa Hilali (46) Liberation Festival Flevoland in Almere by Hakim Radwan (12) Amsterdam Liberation Festival by Frank van der Lende (31) Liberation Festival Overijssel in Zwolle by Brita Röhl (63) Liberation Festival Brabant in Den Bosch by Wadec Salewicz (74) Liberation Festival Utrecht by Maayke Botman (51) Liberation Festival Gelderland in Wageningen by Lavinia Meijer (37)
In this evening the eternal Freedom Fire will be light again in Wageningen.
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Post by pjotr on May 4, 2022 19:06:13 GMT 1
Dutch anthemWilliam of Nassau am I, of German* descent;
True to the fatherland I remain until death.
Prince of Orange am I, free and fearless.
To the King of Spain I have always given honour.
You, my God and Lord, are my shield, on You I rely.
On You I will build; never leave me,
So that I may remain pious, your servant at all moments,
Dispelling the tyranny that wounds my heart.(*He was born in Dillenburg castle, in the then County of Nassau-Dillenburg, in the Holy Roman Empire, now in Hesse, Germany. So "of German descent" is technically correct Futhermore at the time it was written 'German' ('Duitsen') may be more appropriately translated as ' Germanic', which one could also argue as ' Dutch' when translated in a modern context) source: www.lyricsondemand.com/n/nationalanthemlyrics/netherlandsnationalanthemlyrics.html
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