Shadow of doubt lyrics2/29/2024 ![]() ![]() Wessel's face was printed together with his address on Communist street posters. Communist newspapers accused the police of letting the Nazis get away while arresting the injured Communists, while Nazi newspapers claimed that Wessel had been trying to give a speech when Communists emerged and started the fight. As a result of that melee, five Communists were injured, four of them seriously. Several of these incursions were only minor altercations, but one took place outside the tavern which the local German Communist Party (KPD) used as its headquarters. He became notorious among the Communists when he led a number of SA attacks into the Fischerkiez, an extremely poor Berlin district, which he did on orders from Joseph Goebbels, who was then the Nazi Gauleiter (regional party leader) of Berlin. Wessel was the son of a pastor and educated at degree level, but was employed as a construction worker. Wessel wrote songs for the SA in conscious imitation of the Communist paramilitary, the Red Front Fighters' League, to provoke them into attacking his troops, and to keep up the spirits of his men. The lyrics to "Horst-Wessel-Lied" were written in 1929 by Sturmführer Horst Wessel, the commander of the Nazi paramilitary "Brownshirts" ( Sturmabteilung or "SA") in the Friedrichshain district of Berlin. History Horst Wessel, credited as writing the lyrics of the "Horst Wessel Song" The " Horst-Wessel-Lied" has been banned in Germany and Austria since the end of World War II. ![]() From 1933 to 1945, the Nazis made it the co-national anthem of Germany, along with the first stanza of the " Deutschlandlied". 'The Flag High'), was the anthem of the Nazi Party (NSDAP) from 1930 to 1945. The " Horst-Wessel-Lied" ("Horst Wessel Song" German: ( listen)), also known by its opening words " Die Fahne hoch" ("Raise the Flag", lit. ![]()
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