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Horst Wessel, German Nazi activist, c1926-1930. Wessel (1907-1930) joined the Nazi party and the SA in 1926. He was shot by Albrecht Hoehler, a communist, on 14th January 1930, and died 6 weeks later. Posthumously he became a hero of the Nazi movement, remembered for the Horst Wessel Song, a fighting song he wrote in 1929, and commemorated with a monument erected by the Nazis at Berlin's Nikolaikirche after they came to power in 1933. From Deutsche Gedenkhalle: Das Neue Deutschland compiled by General Von Eisenhart Rothe, 1939.