In the film as finished, they used the similar in theme and sound Die Wacht Am Rhein, a 19th century song (which, for obvious reasons, had nothing to do with the Nazis).
If the film were only being screened in Allied nations, it would not have been an issue (as the Allies weren't interested in upholding the IP of a nation that was doing its best to destroy them), but as the film was also going to be distributed in neutral nations, where Germany could cause legal headaches for Warner, they asked that the song not be used.
intervened, pointing out that Horst Wessel was at the time under the copyright of the Nazi Party. Casablanca: The original script called for the two dueling anthems to be La Marsaillaise, the French National Anthem, and Das Horst-Wessel Lied, the official anthem of the Nazi Party, and the second part of the National Anthem of Germany after the Deutschlandlied / Deutschland Ueber Alles.
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