Outside of Germany
The song was and is continued to be perceived as a typical part of the German treasury of songs and is indeed until this day mostly inseparably tied with the German Wehrmacht. For example, in 1983 for the ten-year anniversary of the junta in Chile, the song was a part of the repertoire of the marching band of a Chilean military battalion. An Afrikaans version of the song was the march of the South African Air Force Gymnasium until 1994. It was typically sung by conscripts at the end of basic training.
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