[2] The song marks the first time that the narrative moves away from the hedonism of the nightclub, and establishes the rise of the Nazi Party as the main theme of the story.
There is also an authentic Nazi song "Es Zittern die Morschen Knochen" ("The Frail Bones Tremble"), which, while unmistakably different to listen to, contains the lyrics "For today Germany belongs to us/and tomorrow the whole world".
Others seemed to embrace its lyrics at face value, without political context; a Jewish youth group requested permission to use it in their summer camp show.
[5] Alan Clark, a Conservative politician who flirted with the idea of joining the far-right National Front, recalls in his diaries watching the "uplifting" song in a TV airing of the film.
[6] When the satirical comedy show Spitting Image looked for a fascist-themed song to satirize the Conservative Party victory in the 1987 United Kingdom general election, they used "Tomorrow Belongs to Me" (with a similar staging of the puppet audience in a beer garden, but the live singing boy wearing a suit, with a bowler hat and umbrella in his arms, and cut through with sarcastic bits of film showing depredation and devastation, with the final lines delivered by the Thatcher puppet.
[10] In Italy the song was translated as "Il domani appartiene a noi" in 1977 by La compagnia dell'anello, a right wing band, and was soon adopted as unofficial hymn by Fronte della gioventù, the youth movement of political party M.S.I.
Dominic Lewis composed a cover of the song for the second season of the television adaptation of The Man in the High Castle, intended to fit the unsettling, dystopian atmosphere of the series.