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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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Feb 2, 2013 · 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 range at his home in Berlin....
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Feb 2, 2013 · He examines the Horst Wessel ‘cult’ which emerged in the aftermath of Wessel’s death and the murders of revenge, particularly against Communists, committed by the SA and Gestapo after 1933....
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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May 28, 2013 · Format Hardcover. ISBN 9781780760773. On January 14, 1930, Horst Wessel, a young and ambitious member of the SA, was shot at close range and killed outside his home in Berlin. Joseph Goebbels, whose attention had already been drawn to Wessel as a possible future Nazi leader, was the first to recognize the propaganda potential of the case.
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 hero.
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Oct 25, 2013 · Extract. Daniel Siemens’ fascinating book, which originally appeared under the German title Horst Wessel: Tod und Verklärung eines Nationalsozialisten in 2009, is an outstanding example of micro-history. That is, Siemens takes a single historical incident—the murder of Nazi storm trooper Horst Wessel—and analyses that event, as well as ...