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[โ€“] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

The incident that got got Horst killed wasn't political. It was actually kinda funny when you look back at it. Horst was a criminal himself and lived a fairly criminal lifestyle (he was a pimp and dealt with a lot of sex workers) and the communist who killed him was also a criminal. The chain of events that led to his murder was that his landlady didn't like him for not paying his rent, among other things, and hired said communist to kick him out because he refused to leave despite not paying rent. He was shot and his killers were... sentenced to 6 years!

Like wow... but they were killed by the SA after the Nazis got to power because the Nazis never had any respect for law and order.

Edit: it was manslaughter. Not murder. That explains the lesser sentence.

In short, his landlord killed him.

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