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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté. Image fixe : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Siemens, Daniel (1975-....)
Titre(s) : The making of a Nazi hero [Texte imprimé] : the murder and myth of Horst Wessel / Daniel Siemens ; translated by David Burnett
Publication : London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2013
Description matérielle : xvi, 316 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Comprend : Part 1: From pastor's son to street fighter. Murder in Friedrichshain ; Father and
son ; The young national socialist ; The SA's battle of the streets ; The culprits
flee ; Traces to nowhere ; Sensations in the criminal court: The first Horst Wessel
Trial (1930). ; Part 2: The national socialist hero, profiteers and victims (1930-1945).
Cult and commerce ; With God's blessing ; A hero for German youth ; Monuments in stone
and iron ; Exploiting the myth ; Literary enlightenment ; Revenge of the Nazis ; Judicial
murder: The second Horst Wessel Trial (1934) ; Time of suffering. ; Part 3: The long
shadow of history (1945-2009). Post-war justice ; 'Burden sharing' ; Belated justice.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-306) and index
Translated from the German
"On 14 January 1930, Horst Wessel, a young and ambitious member of the SA was shot
at close range outside his home in Berlin. He later died from his injuries. 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. 'A young
martyr for the Third Reich' he wrote in his diary on 23 February immediately after
receiving the news of his death. This was the beginning of the myth-making of what
were essentially a very ordinary individual and a very ordinary crime. Horst Wessel
became the hero of the Nazi movement and the song Die Fahne Hoch for which Wessel
had written the lyrics (and which subsequently became popularly known as the 'Horst
Wessel Song') became the official Nazi party anthem. Daniel Siemens here 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. At the same time it is a
portrait of the Nazi propaganda machine at its most effective and most chilling."--Publisher's
website
Sujet(s) : Wessel, Horst (1907-1930)
Politique et gouvernement -- Allemagne -- 1918-1933
Politique et gouvernement -- Allemagne -- 1933-1945
Genre ou forme : Biographie
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781780760773 (hardback). - ISBN 1780760779 (hardback)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb42763540j
Notice n° :
FRBNF42763540
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