Kampflied gegen den Faschismus [English translation]

Who pays the money for Hitler

And his company?

It's the big profiteers

From the cannon industry.

Their slogan is murdering workers,

They sing about the bloody day.

Defend yourself, you workers' army,

Prepare to hit back!

(ref.)

Away with the swindle of the Iron Front,1

The fraudsters against the Proletariat.

Only the Red United Front will help us

Made up of worker, peasant and soldier.

Snap out of the old delusion!

The United Front marches

Under the Red Flag,

Displaying Sickle and Hammer.

The Reformists are shouting:

Hitler mustn't get into power!

But who paved the way

For the Fascists in the first place?

Severing2 outlawed the Alliance of Red Front-Fighters3,

But never the brown army.4

Thus, declare struggle against, chase away5

The leaders of the SPD!6

(ref.)

And when Hitler's hordes threaten,

The Fighters Alliance stands ready.

Then there will be an end to the murder,

Then comes a different time!

When we, in alliance with the Soviet Union,

Put an end to the executioners,

And the united power of the workers

Crushes the white Front.7

(ref.)

1. Social-Democrat Anti-Fascist organization in the Weimar Republic.2. Social-Democrat Interior Minister in the Weimar Republic.3. Paramilitary organization of the Communist Party of Germany.4. Meant is the SA, the paramilitary organization of the Nazis.5. literally "chase to the devil"6. Social-Democrat Party of Germany7. White was the political colour of Monarchists and Reactionaries.

• Artist:Ernst Busch