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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horst-Wessel-Lied
Horst Wessel was a Nazi bully boy who got into a fight with his landlady's friends over unpaid rent. After his death he was elevated to martyr status by Hitler.
They really are following the playbook, aren't they.
And it’s so obvious yet allowed that Occam’s Razor dictates Americans want it.
a shocking number of americans don't know the first thing about the material conditions and systems failures that led to the second world war. i learned about horst wessel in a library book after i finished college