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Horst Wessel was a martyr of Nazi Germany.

Joseph Goebbels milked Horst Wessel's death for the last drop of propaganda he could get out of it.


Some months before he died, Wessel had written the verses to what would become the "Horst-Wessel-Lied" {Horst Wessel song} but it first gained popular currency when a choir of Stormtroopers performed it at his funeral. It was later recorded, and in 1931 it became the official anthem of the Nazi Party, played alongside "Deutschland über Alles" at all official occasions. The song celebrates the SA (whom Hitler would soon purge in the Night of the Long Knives).

{About 1928-9, Wessel} organized an attack on the local headquarters of the Communist Party of Germany in Friedrichshain, Berlin, during which four workers sustained serious injuries.

On January 14, 1930, Wessel got into a heated argument with his landlady, a widow of a Communist Party member. Although the exact details of the argument are still debated, …she claimed Wessel refused to pay his rent…

Rather than approach the police, the landlady went to a local tavern frequented by Communists for help. The Communists saw this as an ideal opportunity to avenge themselves on Wessel for the earlier attack. Two men…went to Wessel's apartment. When he opened the door for them, {one of the men} shot him in the head. He died in hospital several weeks later from his injuries.

The shooting was immediately exploited by both the Nazis and the Communists to further their political aims. The Communists portrayed Wessel as a pimp, while the Nazis claimed he had actually saved his girlfriend from a life of prostitution by introducing her to the Nazi Party and its values. Goebbels organized a public funeral for the new "martyr" to the Nazi cause, and 30,000 people lined the streets of Berlin to see the procession. Goebbels delivered the eulogy…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horst_Wessel


Joseph Goebbels wrote:


Horst Wessel has passed on. His mortal remains have given up struggle and conflict. Yet I can feel almost physically his spirit rise, to live on with us. He believed it, he knew it. He himself put it in words: He "marches in spirit in our ranks."

…A soldier of the German revolution! Once he stood with his hand on his belt, proud and upright, with the smile of youth on his red lips, always ready to risk his life. That is how we will remember him.

I see endless columns marching in spirit. A humiliated people rises up and begins to move. An awakening Germany demands its rights: Freedom and prosperity!

He marches behind them in spirit…

He strides silently and knowingly with them. The banners wave, the trumpets sound, the pipes sound, and from a million threats the song of the German revolution resounds:

"Raise high the flag!"



http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/angrif11.htm