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Horst Ludwig Wessel ( October 9, 1907 – February 23, 1930 ) was a German National Socialist activist and an SA-Sturmführer who was made a posthumous hero of the Nazi movement following his violent death in 1930.
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Horst and Wessel
" When the inevitable deaths occurred, he exploited them for the maximum effect, turning the street fighter Horst Wessel, who was killed at his home by enemy political activists, into a martyr and hero.
This would include learning the Horst Wessel song, the Nazi holidays, about Hitler Youth martyrs, and facts about their locality and Germans throughout the world.
The military were required to use the Hitler salute only while singing the Horst Wessel Lied and German national anthem, and in non-military encounters such as greeting members of the civilian government.
In 1947, the academy received as a war reparation from Germany ; the barque Horst Wessel, a 295-foot tall ship which was renamed the USCGC Eagle.
The 1st battalion of about 1000 men was attached to SS Division Horst Wessel and sent to Galicia to fight the Soviet advance.
The troop then sings the " Deutschlandlied " (" Deutschland, Deutschland über alles ") and the Horst Wessel anthem around the fire.
The Horst-Wessel-Lied ( Horst Wessel Song ), also known as Die Fahne hoch (" The Flag On High ") from its opening line, was the anthem of the Nazi Party from 1930 to 1945.
The lyrics were written in 1929 by Horst Wessel, commander of the Storm Division ( SA ) in the Friedrichshain district of Berlin.
The song was written by Horst Wessel, a Nazi activist and SA leader, who was killed by a member of the Communist Party of Germany and subsequently considered a martyr by his National Socialist comrades.
He was the author of the lyrics to the song " Die Fahne hoch " (" The Flag On High "), usually known as Horst-Wessel-Lied (" the Horst Wessel Song "), which became the Nazi Party anthem and, de facto, Germany's co-national anthem from 1933 to 1945.
Wessel's mother, Luise Margarete Wessel, also came from a family of Lutheran pastors, and Horst Wessel himself would remain a devout Lutheran throughout his life.
* Horst-Wessel-Lied -- The " Horst Wessel Song ", also known as Die Fahne hoch (" The Flag Up High ") from its opening line, was the anthem of the Nazi Party from 1930 to 1945.
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