Volker Zorn (@NEW_ORDER)

February 23 - On this day in 1930, Horst Wessel died as the result of wounds suffered when he was ambushed by Marxists the previous month. Author of the NS anthem "Raise the Banner!" Hero of the Movement. 1. Sketch of Horst Wessel in his SA uniform as leader of company 5 of the Berlin stormtroops. 2. Wessel marching at the 1929 NSDAP congress in Nuremberg. (The SA man behind him holding the flag is his brother, Werner Wessel.) 3. His gravesite as it appeared National Socialist Germany. 4. His deathbed, maintained as a shrine during the Third Reich. #NationalSocialistHistory #HorstWessel