Wir sind die Eingeborenen von Trizonesien [German Schlager][+English translation]

My dear friends, my dear friends! The old times are indeed over, as this song says. In a way, it was the German national anthem for a while! For those of you who wonder what I am talking about, I have prepared a bit of background information: As you might know, Germany was divided into four occupation zones after WW2: The French zone (South-West part of Berlin), the British zone (North-West part of Berlin), the American zone (South-East Bremen part of Berlin) - and the Soviet zone in the east that would later become the German Democratic Republic. From 1945 to 1949, there were only these zones and no fully legitimate German state. But in 1947, the American zone and the British zone were (in some administrative aspects) merged into the so-called “Bizone“ to create a more cohesive state-like entity. And in 1948,the French zone (minus the Saarland) was added as well, thereby creating the “Trizone“ as a project of cooperation. All thr