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[1] The song is a product of Germany's Weimar Republic, during which time lesbians and gay men enjoyed a short period of improvement in quality of life when the government established basic democratic rights that covered the LGBT community and abolished censorship.

[citation needed] The first line of the chorus, "Anders als die Andern" (English: different from the others) is the same as the title of a 1919 gay rights film issued by Magnus Hirschfeld.

Und dennoch sind die Meisten stolz, daß sie von ander'm Holz!

Wer aber denkt, daß man uns hängt, den müßte man beweinen, doch bald, gebt acht, wird über Nacht auch uns're Sonne scheinen.

Chorus We are just different from the others who are being loved only in lockstep of morality who wander curiously through a thousand wonders and who are only up to the trivial.