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Die Gedanken Sind Frei
... Kein Mensch kann sie wissen,kein Jäger sie schießen mit pulver und blei,
Die Gedanken sind frei.
Ich denk was ich will und was mich begluecket ...
Mein Wunsch und Begehren kann niemand verwehren,
es bleibet dabei:
Die Gedanken sind frei.
.. No man can know them,
no hunter can shoot them with powder and lead,
Thoughts are free.
I think what I want and what makes me happy ...
My wish and desire no one can deny,
it remains this way: thoughts are free.
... In 1942, Sophie Scholl, a member of the White Rose resistance group, played the song on her flute outside the walls of Ulm prison, where her father Robert had been detained for calling the Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler a "scourge of God" ...
