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Horst Wessel, credited as writing the lyrics of the "Horst Wessel Song". The lyrics to "Horst-Wessel-Lied" were written in 1929 by Sturmführer Horst Wessel, the commander of the Nazi paramilitary "Brownshirts" (Sturmabteilung or "SA") in the Friedrichshain district of Berlin.
The Horst-Wessel-Lied ("Song of Horst Wessel"), also known as Die Fahne Hoch ("The Flag Raised"), was the official anthem of the NSDAP. The song was written by Horst Wessel, a party activist and SA leader, who was killed by a member of the Communist Party of Germany. After his death, he was proclaimed a "martyr" by the NSDAP, and his song ...
A march for which he had written the lyrics was renamed the "Horst-Wessel-Lied" ("Horst Wessel Song"), and became the official anthem of the Nazi Party. After Adolf Hitler came to national power in 1933, the song became the co-national anthem of Germany, along with the first verse of the previous " Deutschlandlied " , also known as "Deutschland ...
Lyrics: Hans Ferdinand Maßmann, 1820: Music: August Daniel von Binzer, 1819: Adopted: 1949: Relinquished: 1952: Preceded by "Deutschlandlied" and "Horst-Wessel-Lied" (by Germany) Succeeded by "Deutschlandlied" Audio sample
Lyrics: Dietrich Eckart: Music: Hans Gansser: Published: 1919: ... was the de facto anthem of the SA until it was gradually supplanted by the "Horst-Wessel-Lied". History
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The entire crowd sings the Horst-Wessel-Lied as the camera focuses on the giant Swastika banner, which fades into a line of silhouetted men in Nazi party uniforms, marching in formation as the lyrics "Comrades shot by the Red Front and the Reactionaries march in spirit together in our columns" are sung.
Horst Wessel Lied, the anthem of the National Socialist Party, written in 1929 and adopted in 1930; March of Ukrainian Nationalists, the anthem of the OUN, written in 1929, adopted in 1932 and adapted for the Armed Forces of Ukraine in 2017.