What is the theme music for Wolfenstein 3-D?
The tune that opens Wolf 3-D is known as the “Horst Wessel Lied” (Horst Wessel’s Song), which was the official Nazi party anthem. Here are the first couple of bars to the lyrics, though further research will follow: (translated from the original German) Raise high the flags! Stand rank-on-rank together…. SA will march with steady, quiet tread…. Historical background: Horst Wessel was an average SA (Sturmabteilung — literally, Storm Detachment; which was the Nazi goon squad) trooper and local party leader in Berlin. He was killed in a street brawl with Communists in 1930, but not before leaving the words and music to the tune that became the Nazi anthem. It was played along with the official German national anthem, whose tune is still used today, although with different lyrics than what was played in Nazi Germany. Other musical trivia: a few bars of the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps anthems are played throughout the game. In one of the music pieces, a Morse-code mess
