biography
pronunciation:
[vesel]
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| lived:
| (1907–30)
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| biography:
| Martyr of the Nazi Party, born in Bielefeld, NWC Germany. He joined the Nazis in 1926 and became a member of the Storm Troopers. As a student, he wrote the words to a music-hall song popular at the German front in 1914. He was killed in his home in a fight, possibly by communists. Joseph Goebbels and other Nazi propagandists renamed the song the ‘Horst Wessel Lied’, had it adopted as their anthem, and made a martyr of him. |
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