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He officially declared Wessel's march, renamed as the "Horst-Wessel-Lied" ("Horst Wessel Song"), to be the Nazi Party anthem, [13] [14] which aided in promoting Wessel as the first of many in the Nazi cult of martyrdom. [15] Wessel was buried on 1 March 1930. Contrary to Nazi claims, there were no attacks on the funeral procession. [16]
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 ...
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Wessel with his parents, 1907. Horst Ludwig Georg Erich Wessel was born on 9 October 1907 in Bielefeld, Westphalia, [2] the son of Wilhelm Ludwig Georg Wessel (born 15 July 1879), a Lutheran minister in Bielefeld, and later in Mülheim an der Ruhr, then at the Nikolai Church, [3] one of Berlin's oldest churches.
Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; ... was the de facto anthem of the SA until it was gradually supplanted by the "Horst-Wessel-Lied ...
After the invasion of Poland and the concurrent annexation of Danzig by Nazi Germany in 1939, "Deutschlandlied" was adopted as the official anthem, along with the "Horst-Wessel-Lied". Lyrics [ edit ]
MGM paid $250 for the rights to the "Horst Wessel Song" for use in the 1938 film Three Comrades. However, with the World War II underway in 1940, the German publisher demanded script approval in return for usage of the song. [14] MGM ignored the request, and had Zador simply arrange the "Horst Wessel Lied" with English lyrics by Earl Brent. The ...