The ズンドコ節 (Zundoko Bushi), also known as 海軍小唄 (Naval Kouta), is a Japanese song talking of a seaman's memories for a girl he knew back home in Japan. It speaks of his leaving home, before leaving the harbor, to go to war and that he corresponds with her frequently. The song was originally written and sung by Ichirō Fujiyama in 1937. This version was sung and played by Toshio Mishima and his musical group. Toshio Mishima passed away in 2014. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MqtYNbTfr4

Didn't see a decent version. Here you guys go. No, I do not know Simplified Chinese. This translation was done by someone else. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKb6XmsqJ0E

Ernst Thalmänn was the leader of the German Communist Party during the twenties and thirties around the same time Hitler became leader of the Nazi Party. He was imprisoned in 1933 in solitary confinement. He was to be given a trial in the German Jury in 1944, but the Nazis fearing he'd use their own system against him, executed him at Buchenwald Concentration Camp. His name is not as popular as Lenin's or Stalin's, but his ideals were great in that he wanted to see a better, united Germany. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yV7iDGpFe2s

"Protect the Yellow River" is a piece part of the "Yellow River Cantata". To quote an official 300 page research document on the song's background: "In a letter dated September 15, 1938, Dr. Chu Chia-hua, the President of the Chinese League of Nations 33 Union and Vice-Chairman of the International Federation of League of Nations Societies wrote: During the past seven years, more than 2,000,000 square kilometers of Chinese territory have been occupied and approximately 150,000,000 Chinese people directly affected by the continued aggression of these militarists. In spite of the vast extent of such ravages, however, Japan is continuing her aggression upon China with renewed vigor. As a result of China’s unshakable determination to resist to the last, the ferocity of the invaders has increased in corresponding measure to their exasperation. The slaughtering of innocent civilians, the bombing of undefended cities, the extensive use of poisonous gases, the open violation of international conventions prohibiting resort to chemical warfare - these barbarous acts have shown beyond doubt that Japan is not only the enemy of China but is defying humanity itself. Perceiving that not only her own existence is at stake but human civilization itself is endangered, China has entered into a solemn resolve to carry on the struggle to the last, for she believes that this is the only effective way to quarantine the spread of the Nipponese peril to the rest of the world." ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maL4gdfgzds