News Summary

• Horst Wessel rose to become a top organizer and leader in the party’s perpetual street fighting.
• He was also notable as a recruiter of aimless youths who wanted to be tough guys.
• In 1930, Wessel was murdered by Communists, although the incident resulted from a tangled chain of events.
• Joseph Goebbels’ eulogy: “A divine element works in him.
• making him the man he is and causing him to act in this way and no other.
• One man must set an example and offer himself up as a sacrifice!
• Well, then, I am ready!”