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Horst Wessel
Horst Ludwig Georg Erich Wessel was a member of the Sturmabteilung (SA), the paramilitary wing of the Nazi Party, who became a propaganda symbol in Nazi Germany following his murder in 1930 by two members of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). After his death, Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels elevated him into a martyr for the Nazi Party.
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politics · German Nazi martyr (1907–1930) · politician · also Horst Wessel, Horst Ludwig Wessel, Wessel
Born 9 October 1907 · Died 23 February 1930 · Q57163
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2026· 1 entry
2025· 2 entries
Jewish Telegraphic Agency: Horst Wessel Film Edited by Goebbels
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The Times of Israel: Horst Wessel and the Propaganda of Ultra-Right Martyrdom
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2018· 1 entry
nw.de: Wie Bünde den SA-Führer Horst Wessel ehrte
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2011· 2 entries
DiePresse: Reue wegen Horst-Wessel-Lied in "Die große Chance"
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A group of anti-Nazi activists attacked Wessel's grave and sprayed the words Keine Ruhe für Nazis
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2010· 2 entries
Die Tageszeitung: : Wie der Tod zu Horst Wessel kam
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Die Tageszeitung: „Horst Wessel ist immer noch Kultfigur“
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2009· 1 entry
The sentences against all three of them were rescinded by the Berlin public prosecutor's office
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2007· 1 entry
Berliner Zeitung: Wie der Student und Propagandamusiker Horst Wessel zum Vorzeige-Märtyrer der Nazis wurde: Er liebte eine Prostituierte
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2000· 1 entry
A group of anti-fascists claimed to have opened up the grave and thrown his skull into the nearby Spree river
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1947· 1 entry
It was renamed "Luxemburg-Platz" after Rosa Luxemburg
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1938· 2 entries
The Nazi Party's Central Publishing House, the Franz Eher Nachfolger Verlag in Munich, published Jagdgeschwader Horst Wessel ("Horst Wessel Fighter Squadron") by Obersturmbannführer Hans Peter Hermel to commemorate the p
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An area of reclaimed land in the rural area of Eiderstedt in Schleswig-Holstein was named the "Horst Wessel polder"
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1937· 1 entry
A German court determined that Wessel was not the composer of the melody
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1936· 2 entries
And Jagdgeschwader 142 were also named after Wessel
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Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine (navy) commissioned a three-masted training ship and named her the Horst Wessel
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1933· 2 entries
Höhler was taken out of prison under false pretenses by then Gestapo chief Rudolf Diels and members of the SA, and illegally executed
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The song became the co-national anthem of Germany, along with the first verse of the previous "Deutschlandlied", or "Deutschland Deutschland über alles"; nowadays the third verse "Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit" is use
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1930· 2 entries
Died 1930-02-23.
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By two members of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD)
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1929· 1 entry
Wessel became the Street Cell Leader of the Alexanderplatz Storm Section of the SA
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1922· 1 entry
Aged 15, Wessel joined the DNVP's youth group Bismarckjugend ("Bismarck Youth"), from which he resigned in 1925
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1907· 1 entry
Born 1907-10-09.
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