[This] piece came to be perceived as ‘a celebration of the power of an uninterrupted life instinct’ and its elemental melodies and rhythms were said to bear witness to ‘the indestructible and always re-emerging power of the ways of the common people’.
http://holocaustmusic.ort.org/politics-and-propaganda/third-reich/orff-carl/
O Fortuna – Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_Fortuna
Carl Orff’s O Fortuna in popular culture – Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Orff%27s_O_Fortuna_in_popular_culture