Vorwärts! Vorwärts! schmettern die hellen Fanfaren (Forward! Forward! blare the bright fanfares) was a marching song of the Hitler Youth

Hitler Youth

The Hitler Youth was a paramilitary organization of the Nazi Party. It existed from 1922 to 1945. The HJ was the second oldest paramilitary Nazi group, founded one year after its adult counterpart, the Sturmabteilung...

, which was also known as their banner song. The song is also known by its chorus Unsere Fahne flattert uns voran (Our flag flutters before us).

The text of the song published in 1933 comes from Baldur von Schirach

Baldur von Schirach

Baldur Benedikt von Schirach was a Nazi youth leader later convicted of being a war criminal. Schirach was the head of the Hitler-Jugend and Gauleiter and Reichsstatthalter of Vienna....

, on a melody by UFA

UFA

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 composer Hans-Otto Borgmann

Hans-Otto Borgmann

Hans-Otto Borgmann was a German film music composer during the Third Reich.He joined UFA as a silent film music conductor in 1928, and became head composer by 1931...

 which had originally been used in a documentary on Svalbard island. The marching song was first performed in the 1933 propaganda film Hitlerjunge Quex. Motifs from the song are used throughout the film, underlying representations of the Hitler Youth, in contrast to The Internationale

The Internationale

The Internationale is a famous socialist, communist, social-democratic and anarchist anthem.The Internationale became the anthem of international socialism, and gained particular fame under the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1944, when it was that communist state's de facto central anthem...

 and jazz

Jazz

Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...

 motifs underlying scenes from the socialist "commune".

During the Second World War the refrain of the song was integrated into the march of the SS-Panzer Division Hitler Youth.

The song is prohibited in Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 under section 86a of the Strafgesetzbuch

Strafgesetzbuch

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.

In Austria

Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

, similar provisions apply pursuant to Section 3 of the Prohibition Act 1947.