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“Every now and then there would be talk of an “anti-fascist front” between the SPD and the Communists, but neither side meant it.”
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“The most important struggle in German politics was not between the Nazis and the KPD, but between the socialists and the Communists.”
“Throughout Germany three-quarters of new members of the KPD were unemployed.”
“Goebbels knew the value of fake news and was an expert in manufacturing it.”
“Goebbels interviewed Wessel’s grieving mother and wrote of Jaenichen and Wessel as childhood sweethearts, as though their story was from romance fiction.”
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“The other was Albrecht Hohler, thirty, a Communist member of the paramilitary group the Red Front Fighters and well known locally as a particularly vicious thug—a petty criminal who had been released from jail only a few months earlier.”
“KPD paramilitaries regularly attacked police officers, killing eleven and wounding 1,153 in Prussia alone in the winter of 1930-1931, mostly by rooftop snipers shooting at specific targets below.”
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“On the night of January 14, after some drinking, two young men started brawling and the incident turned bloody—an average Tuesday evening in this part of the city at this time.”
“The Nazis, in particular, did not want any sort of clash with the army or to appear as though they were preparing a coup or armed uprising, which is why Hitler took what became known as the Ulm case so seriously.”
“He knew the real story.”
“Both were armed but Hohler managed to get hold of Wessel’s gun and shot him in the stomach.”
“He understood how important a martyr would be to the Nazis and, since he had taken over as party boss in Berlin, he had been on the lookout for a young man whom he could build up to die a hero’s death for the cause.”
“The assassination was ordered personally by Walter Ulbricht, head of the Berlin Communist Party, as was widely reported at the time, though it was vehemently denied.”