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Horst Wessel
SA officer
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dead
- born
- 1907
- died
- 1930
- age at death
- 22
- known for
- politician
1907 – 1930
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who horst wessel is
Horst Ludwig Georg Erich Wessel was a member of the Sturmabteilung (SA), the paramilitary wing of the Nazi Party, who became a propaganda symbol in Nazi Germany following his murder in 1930 by two members of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). After his death, Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels elevated him into a martyr for the Nazi Party.
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