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Lili Marleen
Hans Leip, a schoolteacher from Hamburg conscripted into the Imperial German Army, wrote the words as a poem of three verses in 1915; he is said to have joined the nickname of a friend's girlfriend, Lili, to the name of another friend, Marleen, a nurse. The poem was published in 1937, with two more verses, as "The Song of a Young Soldier on Watch".
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