Es war ein EdelweissEs war ein Edelweiss is a march, with music and lyrics composed by Herms Niel in 1939 for the German Army.VariationsThe French version, L’Edelweiss, is a march of the French Foreign Legion. This march was subsequently translated during WWII by members of the Legion of [French Volunteers Against Bolshevism]. These men, who included a number of former legionnaires, volunteered for the Eastern Front to fight there alongside Germans, against Stalin‘s Soviet Union.