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    Horst Ludwig Georg Erich Wessel (9 October 1907 – 23 February 1930) was a member of the Sturmabteilung (SA), the paramilitary wing of the Nazi Party,...
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    B-flat major Problems playing this file? See media help. The "Horst-Wessel-Lied" (German: [hɔʁst ˈvɛsl̩ liːt] ), also known by its incipit "Die Fahne hoch"...
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    USCGC Eagle (WIX-327), formerly Horst Wessel and also known as Barque Eagle, is a 295-foot (90 m) barque used as a training cutter for future officers...
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  • the Nazi era, only the first stanza was used, followed by the SA song "Horst-Wessel-Lied". In modern Germany, the public singing or performing of songs identified...
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  • Volunteer Panzer Grenadier Division "Horst Wessel" (German: 18. SS-Freiwilligen Panzergrenadier-Division "Horst Wessel") was formed in 1944 around a cadre...
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    Albrecht Höhler (category Horst Wessel)
    street-fighters of the Communist Party of Germany. He is known for the killing of Horst Wessel, a local leader in Berlin of the Nazi Party's SA stormtroopers. After...
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    border with Prenzlauer Berg. In the Nazi era, the borough was called Horst-Wessel-Stadt. Friedrichshain is one of the trendy districts of Berlin and has...
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    commanded the SS Division Götz von Berlichingen and the SS Division Horst Wessel. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak...
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    Fock. Horst Wessel and Albert Leo Schlageter are 7 metres (23 ft) longer, and all three have slightly more powerful auxiliary engines. Horst Wessel was...
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  • (1906-1992), German cartoonist Horst Wessel (1907–1930), German National Socialist political activist, assassinated in Weimar Germany Horst Zuse (born 1945), German...
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    Albert Hochter, who shot Wessel. Wessel had penned a song months before which would become a Nazi anthem as the Horst-Wessel-Lied. Goebbels seized upon...
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    to local SA troop leader Horst Wessel being shot by two members of the KPD. He later died in hospital. Exploiting Wessel's death, Goebbels turned him...
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    under USCG commission, and five during her 10 years of commission as Horst Wessel under the Kriegsmarine. Many of Eagle's past commanders have gone on...
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  • de facto anthem of the SA until it was gradually supplanted by the "Horst-Wessel-Lied". The lyrics for this song were written by poet Dietrich Eckart...
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  • "Götz von Berlichingen" 18th SS Volunteer Panzergrenadier Division "Horst Wessel" 19th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (2nd Latvian) 20th Waffen Grenadier...
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    the Nazi era, only the first stanza was used, followed by the SA song "Horst-Wessel-Lied". It was played at occasions of great national significance, such...
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    stadium was opened in 1936 and was originally named after SA officer Horst Wessel, before it was renamed the Kurt-Wabbel-Stadion, in honour of Kurt Wabbel...
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  • Ende Vaterlandslied Volkslied Dem Vaterland Nazi Germany Nazi songs Horst-Wessel-Lied Panzerlied Sturmlied Es war ein Edelweiss Volk ans Gewehr Erika...
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  • of a new film on the life of Horst Wessel. The reader is correctly informed that already in 1933 a film on Horst Wessel had been made, but out of "suspicions...
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    discovered to include a 45-second musical quote of the Horst Wessel Song, written by Sturmführer Horst Wessel, a district leader in Hitler's Sturmabteilung (SA)...
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  • Götz von Berlichingen 1943–1945 18,354 (1944) 18th Horst Wessel Ethnic Germans from Hungary Horst Wessel 1944–1945 11,000 (1944) 19th Lettische Nr. 2 Latvians...
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  • the Horst-Wessel-Lied Jessie Wessel (1894–1948), Swedish actress Johan Herman Wessel (1742–1785), Dano-Norwegian writer (brother of Caspar Wessel) Kai...
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    The film is a partially fictionalized biography of the Nazi martyr Horst Wessel. The film concentrates on the conflict with the Communist Party of Germany...
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    the sole national flag in September 1935. The Party anthem "Horst-Wessel-Lied" ("Horst Wessel Song") became a second national anthem. Germany was still...
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    (Jagdgeschwader 6 Horst Wessel) given SA honour titles, and even a Waffen-SS division (18. SS Freiwilligen-Panzergrenadier-Division Horst Wessel). On 26 September...
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    Sturmbrigade were attached to the 18th SS Volunteer Panzergrenadier Division Horst Wessel and sent to Galicia on the Eastern Front. In heavy fighting against the...
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  • prohibited in Germany since 2005 due to the title track's sampling of the "Horst-Wessel-Lied", the anthem of the Sturmabteilung. In response to the proposed...
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    Boerner,Otto Kittel, Hans-Ekkehard Bob, Max-Hellmuth Ostermann, Hugo Broch, Horst Ademeit and Hannes Trautloft. JG 54 participated in the Invasion of Poland...
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    Professor Werner is bullied by a gang for not singing along with the "Horst Wessel Song." Martin interferes and the bullies allow Werner to leave. Fritz...
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    Jagdgeschwader 134 (JG 134) "Horst Wessel" was a Luftwaffe fighter-wing prior to World War II. JG 134 was formed on 4 January 1936 with III. Gruppe in...
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