L ili Marleen was the marching tune of World War Two.
Immortalised by Marlene Dietrich, it was originally written as a poem in 1915 by German poet Hans Leip and set to music in 1938 by Norbert Schultze.
During the war, the song became a favourite of servicemen on both sides of the conflict. When Tommie Connor provided an English lyric, the rich contralto voice of Anne Shelton supplied the vocal. Shelton's rendition was used to counteract a Nazi propaganda campaign