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German Invasion musical themes

Wiki's Operation Barbarossa article states: Each German invasion of a foreign country had an official musical theme that was frequently played for the purposes of Nazi propaganda, over the totally government-controlled radio stations after the invasion was officially announced. This was done to whip up enthusiasm among the German population for the military operation. The theme song for Operation Barbarossa was Les preludes by Franz Liszt. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Barbarossa#Invasion_musical_theme

What were the themes to Germany's other invasions (Poland,Norway, France, Greece etc)? --Gary123 (talk) 01:10, 24 November 2013 (UTC)

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I would be surprised to learn it wasn't "TUMP utta bum... bum..." in every case. I do know Hotler's death was announced by Sigried's Funeral March. μηδείς (talk) 03:45, 24 November 2013 (UTC) Hotler? In contrast, American radios were probably playing, "Ding-Dong, the Son-of-a-Witch Is Dead." ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 03:59, 24 November 2013 (UTC) Next time I say Hotler without [sic] you can fix it yourself. I was busy looking for the art historian who told the anecdote of Hotler's passing. μηδείς (talk) 04:01, 24 November 2013 (UTC) It was Ernst Gombrich and he heard a Bruckner Symphony dedicated to Wagner, not Siegfried's Funeral March. μηδείς (talk) 04:07, 24 November 2013 (UTC) See also This recent question (from less than one month ago). ---Sluzzelin talk 04:03, 24 November 2013 (UTC) Yes, I think our murder/Nazi/Japan/pacific islands troll, whatever his name is back. μηδείς (talk) 04:09, 24 November 2013 (UTC) Was that Timothyhere (talk · contribs) and his endless socks, or someone else? ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 05:32, 24 November 2013 (UTC) The questioner has been a registered editor since 2004 and has always edited in this topic area.184.147.136.249 (talk) 15:09, 24 November 2013 (UTC)

See also This recent question (from less than one month ago). ---Sluzzelin talk 04:03, 24 November 2013 (UTC)

Importing an article to be used as a basis for a television series

We are beginning to develop a television series on the history of Kentucky. I would like to import the wikipedia history of Kentucky to our computer and expand upon it with more editorial, scene content and locations. This will not be used to edit any wikipedia history on line. Is this import doable? If so, how do I do it so we can add content? Thanks much, -woody dugan — Preceding unsigned comment added by 162.72.217.249 (talk) 18:10, 24 November 2013 (UTC)

This question would probably be better on the Help Desk, but Help:Export might be what you're looking for. Tevildo (talk) 18:27, 24 November 2013 (UTC)

If you want to be able to edit it like a Wiki article, you're going to have to have some software to do that in; the obvious choice is the Mediawiki software: if you have somebody who can set up a web server for you (even just on your local machine) they can set up your own copy of the mediawiki software, and then use Export to transfer the article to it (though you'll probably have to export all the templates it depends on as well, which might be tricky). I think you might do better to "Download as PDF", and then use one of the programs that will turn that back into word-processing format. --ColinFine (talk) 20:46, 24 November 2013 (UTC)

Another option is just to create an account and make a copy in your own namespace here in Wikipedia. You can then edit your own copy as you see fit, using our software. Note that even though it's in your namespace, anyone can edit it. This is good if you want people to work together on it. And, although it's also possible for random people to vandalize it there, they aren't likely to find it, and even if they do vandalize it, you can always revert the vandalism, just as in normal Wikipedia. StuRat (talk) 22:32, 24 November 2013 (UTC)

That's a possibility, but I'm not sure it would be acceptable within the guidelines of WP:USERPAGE. It might be OK, though. --ColinFine (talk) 23:39, 24 November 2013 (UTC)

Provided Wikipedia gets a proper credit for the final program, I can't see them objecting. StuRat (talk) 05:27, 25 November 2013 (UTC)

• The responses above are all missing a crucial point, which is that Wikipedia content is released under a Creative Commons Share-alike license, meaning that any work containing significant amounts of material copied from it has to be released under a compatible license. In other words, if you derive your presentation from a Wikipedia article, you will have to release it under essentially the same terms by which the Wikipedia article is released. You can find a link to the license at the bottom of every Wikipedia page. Looie496 (talk) 17:10, 25 November 2013 (UTC)

• • On further consideration, I'm not sure that what I wrote above is correct. But I am sure that it is essential to read and thoroughly understand Wikipedia:Text of Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License, as it relates to adaptations. Looie496 (talk) 17:19, 25 November 2013 (UTC)

All you really need to do is copy and paste it into a word processor, where you can edit and expand it for your own purposes to your heart's content. --Nicknack009 (talk) 17:50, 25 November 2013 (UTC)

Not sure if that would preserve headings, the table of contents, images, links, sources, etc. StuRat (talk) 20:45, 27 November 2013 (UTC)