An illustrated postcard of the lyrics to the Horst Wessel Lied, the official marching song of the Nazi party.
Photograph | Photograph Number: 97472
- Date
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Circa 1930 - 1939
- Locale
- Germany
- Photo Credit
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Margaret Chelnick
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.
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Record last modified: 2000-01-28 00:00:00
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