In Lili Mar­lene, authors Liel Lei­bovitz (Aliyah) and Matthew Miller reveal the dra­mat­ic sto­ry of an icon­ic love song, its three cre­ators, and their lives under the Nazis. ​“Lili Mar­lene,” the unlike­ly anthem of World War II, cut across front lines and ide­o­log­i­cal divides. This love song began as a poem writ­ten by a Ger­man sol­dier dur­ing World War I. The sol­dier poet’s words found their way to Berlin’s deca­dent cabaret scene in the 1930′s, where they were set to music by one of Hitler’s favored com­posers. The song’s singer, how­ev­er, soon found her­self torn between her desire for fame and her per­son­al hatred of the Nazi regime. In Lei­bovitz and Miller’s nar­ra­tive, the three artists’ remark­able sto­ries of arrests and close calls inter­twine with the rec­ol­lec­tions of sol­diers on all sides who found solace and hope in ​“Lili Marlene.”

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