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Feb 2, 2013 · The Making of a Nazi Hero. : Daniel Siemens. Bloomsbury Publishing, Feb 2, 2013 - History - 336 pages. On 14 January 1930, Horst Wessel, a young and ambitious member of the SA was shot at close...
May 28, 2013 · The Making of a Nazi Hero: The Murder and Myth of Horst Wessel [Siemens, Daniel] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers.
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Oct 25, 2013 · That is, Siemens takes a single historical incident—the murder of Nazi storm trooper Horst Wessel—and analyses that event, as well as developments leading up to and resulting from it. The product of the author’s effort is a thought-provoking overview of much of twentieth-century German history.
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Feb 2, 2013 · Using previously unseen material, Daniel Siemens provides a fascinating and gripping account of the background to Horst Wessel’s murder and uncovers how and why the Nazis made him a political...
Aug 22, 2022 · Die Fahne Hoch: Three Biographies of Horst Wessel [Reitmann, Erwin, Daum, Fritz, Kullak, Max] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers.
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Description. On 14 January 1930, Horst Wessel, a young and ambitious member of the SA was shot at close range at his home in Berlin. Although the crime was never completely solved, the murder was most likely committed by a group of communists with close ties to the city's gangland. Wessel later died from his injuries.
The name Horst Wessel is well known to historians of the Third Reich, but as Daniel Siemens explains, it is the myth rather than the man that has been often passed down in history. To remedy this situation, Siemens provides an exhaustive analysis of the various Horst Wessels of modern German history: the Nazi convert, the Nazi agitator, the ...