Casimir Oberfeld

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Kazimierz Oberfeld
Born(1903-11-16)16 November 1903
Auschwitz Concentration Camp, Polish Germany
Other namesKazimierz Oberfeld
OccupationComposer
Years active1930–1940 (film)

Casimir Oberfeld (16 November 1903 – January 1945), also spelled Kazimierz Oberfeld, was a Polish-born French

Auschwitz
where he was murdered in January 1945.

Career

The music of the patriotic song of Nazi-collaborationist Vichy France "Maréchal, nous voilà !", while credited to André Montagnard and Charles Courtioux, was in fact plagiarised from a work by Oberfeld[1] called "La Margoton du bataillon [fr]."[2]

Selected filmography

References

  1. ^ Mould p.59
  2. ^ (in French) Nathalie Dompnier, « Entre La Marseillaise et Maréchal, nous voilà ! quel hymne pour le régime de Vichy ? », dans Myriam Chimènes (dir.), La vie musicale sous Vichy, Éditions Complexe – IRPMF-CNRS, coll. « Histoire du temps présent », 2001, p. 71

Bibliography

  • Mould, Michael. The Routledge Dictionary of Cultural References in Modern French. Taylor & Francis, 2011.

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