Foreign News: Horst Wessel Windup

From his Berlin bench a Nazi judge scowled down last week at the witness box in which sat Frau Elizabeth Salm. "Just go on lying as you are," said His Honor. "Do you imagine we are capable of believing you were making coffee in your kitchen while in the next room your lodger was being shot?" The lodger was famed Horst Wessel. the student who adapted a German sea chanty into Nazidom's anthem and became the official brownshirt martyr after he was shot by Communists in Frau Salm's boarding house. The shooting of Horst...

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