APH - Our Anthem

Very late for the World Cup, I know, but I couldn't think of a decent setting, so sorry for that...

I often wondered how Austria must feel like every time he hears "Das Deutschlandlied", considering that the melody of the German national anthem was taken from what was once his when he was still an empire ("Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser"). I imagined it probably made him sad and perhaps a little bit bitter, whereas Hungary would just be a little nostalgic, and Italy would simply go, "Ve! We used to sing that in Austria's house!" or something like that...

I probably should have included Poland (he had a version of the Austrian song as well), but I didn't have any more space...

I just copied the anthem from Wikipedia, so please correct me if I made any errors... or if I shouldn't have done this in the first place. The two lines above are (supposedly) in German, and the ones below are Italian, Hungarian, and Austrian-German respectively.

Btw, that is one of the most beautiful national anthems I've ever heard...


Hetalia: Axis Powers (Elizaveta Héderváry - Hungary; Feliciano Vargas - North Italy; Roderich Edelstein - Austria; Ludwig - Germany; Gilbert Beilschmidt - Prussia) © Hidekaz Himaruya, Studio Deen

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