"Edelweiß" (Niel) Infanterie-Regiment GD, 1939

German love song composed in 1939 by Herms Niel (1888-1954). Performed by 1st Band of the Infantry Regiment "Greater Germany" (from Berlin) under captain Friedrich Ahlers, with Chorus of Motorcycle Company of the 3rd Reconnaissance Battalion (from Stahnsdorf). Recorded in Berlin, 1939.

Additional info: song about a flower which joined a couple in love. It originally has three strophes; 1st and 2nd strophe recorded.
[more infos in video]

Note: mono recording, from I.Ž. 78rpm record collection; not to be used for commercial or propaganda purposes.

Other known recordings of this song:
1939 Chorus & Band of the State Labour Service under Herms Niel
1939 Chorus & Band of the State Labour Service under Herms Niel
1939 Chorus & Bruno Seidler-Winkler's Brass Band
1939 Metropol Vocalists & Band of the Berlin-Staaken Airbase under H. Boß
1939 Quartet & Band of the Air-Signal Regiment CinC-AF under E. Kiesant
1939 Willy Derby & orchestra (Dutch version)
1942 Georg Malmstén, chorus & orchestra (Finnish version)
1965? The Old Comrades
1970? Chorus & Band of the 1st Mountain Division under W. Zimmermann
197? Former Waffen-SS Members' Chorus
19?? Franzl Lang and his Mountain Vagrants
19?? Gerhard Rudolph and his Orchestra
1986 The Gulf War Veterans' Choir (Finnish version)
1996 Chorus & Orch. of the North Kymi Soldier Boy Assoc. (Finnish version)
2003 Bad Reichenhall Mountain Troopers
+ several (modern) versions in French by Légion étrangère

[it was also included in medleys "Sota-ajan tyttöjä" by Urpo Jokinen (1955, in Finnish) and "Wohlauf, Kameraden" by Gerhard Scholz and Gerhard Pätzig (196?)]

[it was also recorded for movie "Spähtrupp Hallgarten" (1941) and documentary "Kameraden unterm Edelweiß" (orig. footage, postwar music)]