Advanced Search

Learn About The Holocaust

Special Collections

My Saved Research

Login

Register

Help

Skip to main content

An illustrated postcard of the lyrics to the Horst Wessel Lied, the official marching song of the Nazi party.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 97472

Search this record's additional resources, such as finding aids, documents, or transcripts.

No results match this search term.
Check spelling and try again.

results are loading

0 results found for “keyward

    An illustrated postcard of the lyrics to the Horst Wessel Lied, the official marching song of the Nazi party.
    An illustrated postcard of the lyrics to the Horst Wessel Lied, the official marching song of the Nazi party.

Horst Wessel was a storm trooper who was killed as a young man by an unknown assailant in 1930.  During his period in the SA he wrote the lyrics to a marching song that incorporated many slogans of the Nazi party.  It was later set to the tune of an old fisherman's song.  After Wessel's death, Joseph Goebbels turned him into a hero and martyr of the Nazi party and his poem into an official song of the movement.

    Overview

    Caption
    An illustrated postcard of the lyrics to the Horst Wessel Lied, the official marching song of the Nazi party.

    Horst Wessel was a storm trooper who was killed as a young man by an unknown assailant in 1930. During his period in the SA he wrote the lyrics to a marching song that incorporated many slogans of the Nazi party. It was later set to the tune of an old fisherman's song. After Wessel's death, Joseph Goebbels turned him into a hero and martyr of the Nazi party and his poem into an official song of the movement.
    Date
    Circa 1930 - 1939
    Locale
    Germany
    Photo Credit
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Margaret Chelnick

    Rights & Restrictions

    Photo Source
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    Provenance: Margaret Chelnick

    Keywords & Subjects

    Record last modified:
    2000-01-28 00:00:00
    This page:
    http:​/​/collections.ushmm.org​/search​/catalog​/pa1119816

    Download & Licensing

    In-Person Research

    Contact Us