(This one’s tricky, but I’m going to do my best and then hope that someone like Jan steps in and corrects any mistakes in the comments.)
2010 world cup soccer jerseyThe German national anthem is called “Deutschlandlied” (”Song of the Germans”) and the lyricswere penned by August Heinrich Hoffmann back in 1841. The first two lines of “Deutschlandlied” really are “Germany, Germany above all, Above everything in the world.” Which I know raises a few eyebrows. But there are two gigantic caveats.
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