Trizonesien-Song

On 8 April 1948, France joined the Bizone, previously formed of the US and UK occupied areas of Germany since the end of World War II.

At a football match in a British prisoner-of-war camp, the song was played alongside "God Save the King" as a national anthem.

The allied military officers present mistook it for the German national anthem, and rose from their seats.

[1] In 1950, the West German chancellor Konrad Adenauer held a press conference in Berlin addressing this occurrence, where he said: "I believe it was last year at a sporting event in the Cologne Stadium.

What I'm telling you now is secret — not for publication: many Belgian soldiers stood up and saluted, believing that it was the national anthem.