Posted on 08/15/2013 6:58:01 AM PDT by varmintman
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horst_Wessel
Horst Wessel, the Nazi version of Trayvon. Same basic story as Trayvon Martin, i.e. a walking piece of garbage with no reasonable expectation of reaching age 25 succumbs to the law of averages and dies as a logical consequence of his own shabby behavior, and then is made into a hero of the world by propagandists and/or race baiters:
At that time, the Alexanderplatz, the centre of Berlin's nightlife, was part of the territory of Wessel's SA troop. In September 1929, he met Erna Jänicke, an 18-year-old prostitute, in a bar. Soon he moved into her apartment in Große Frankfurter Straße (today Karl-Marx-Allee). The landlady was Elisabeth Salm, whose late husband had been an active Communist. Some sources claim Wessel earned money as her procurer.[6] After a few months, there was a dispute between Salm and Wessel over unpaid rent.[7] In the evening of 14 January 1930, Wessel answered a knock on his door, and was shot in the face by an assailant who then fled the scene. Wessel lingered in hospital until he died on 23 February. Albrecht Höhler, an active member of the local Communist Party (KPD) branch, was sentenced to six years' imprisonment for the shooting, and was executed by the Gestapo after the Nazi accession to power in 1933.[8]The KPD, however, denied any knowledge of the attack and said it resulted from a dispute over money between Wessel and his landlady. It is possible that Salm asked her late husband's old comrades to help deal with her recalcitrant tenant.[9] Another version says that Wessel's murderer was a rival for the affections of Jänicke. It is also possible the shooting was revenge by local Communists for Wessel's alleged role in the murder of a 17-year-old Communist, Camillo Ross, earlier in the day.[citation needed]
Posthumous fame
Wessel was elevated by Goebbels' propaganda apparatus to the status of leading martyr of the Nazi movement. Goebbels himself began the process with his 27 February 1930 account of Wessel's death "Raise High the Flag!"[10] Many of Goebbels's most effective propaganda speeches were made at gravesides, but Wessel received unusual attention among the many unremembered storm troopers.[11]
Joseph Goebbels would have hired Sharpton and Jackson on the spot. It's a fairly safe bet he'd have referred to them as "Black Aryans".
I’ve been thinking the same thing for months. Someone should tell Oprah that it’s more similar than Emmet Till.
Never let a crisis go to waste.
Guess that means that Johnny Manziel is busy signign a whole lot more stuff for $$$...in for a penny, in for a pound, eh?
There was also a Stalinist version of Trayvon Martin (Pavlik Morozov) who at age 14 ratted out his family for “hoarding grain” and was killed by his own grandfather with an axe, and became a hero of the CCCP with pioneer lagers named for him....
Wiki tries to detune some of those kinds of stories and you get people claiming they’re urban legends. I don’t believe that one was an urban legend.
and the training ship named for him is now the US Coast Guard Eagle.
I never knew the history behind the song. Maybe now Trayvon needs a song named after him too. Maybe the title could be “Ode to St. Skittles”.
Hoodies high, ranks closed
The homies march with pants slung low.
Comrades shot by the white hispanics
march in spirit with us in our ranks.
The street free for the brown battalions,
The street free for the grievance lords.
Millions, full of dope, look up at the skittles;
The day breaks for freedom and for skittles.
For the last time the lean will now be drunk;
For the struggle now we all stand ready.
Soon will fly Trayvon-flags over every street;
Old School will last only a short time longer.
Hoodies high, ranks closed,
The homies march with pants slung low.
Comrades shot by the white hispanics
march in spirit with us in our ranks.
Sung to the tune of a catchy German number from the 30’s.
Almost brings a tear to my eye.....
That’s what I’m talkin’ about!
But shouldn’t it (boom chucka boom chuckkkkka boom) be “said” (not “sung”) to a rap beat? (or hophip or pantsonnaground or whatever it’s called these days?)
Preferably something with a good does of gangsta mixed in...
This is the best analogy, the punk turned martyr.
I think Elton John already recorded a song for Trayvon.
Trayvon wears his gold grill like a crown,
Call his child Skittles, cause he likes the name,
Suspended from the finest school in town.
Trayvon, Trayvon like his money,
makes alot they say.
Spends his days dealing, by the playground way.
He was born a bastard to a ho,
6 weeks past Christmas day.
When the New Tork Times says Clintons great,
Tracy Martin had a son today.
And he shall be Trayvon,
And he shall be a hood man.
And he shall be Trayvon,
in tradition with the family plan.
And he shall be Trayvon,
And he shall be a hood man.
......he shall be Trayvon.
Trayvon, steals womens jewelry all day,
His family business thrives.
Skittles blows up balloons all day,
Sits on the porch watching them fly.
And Skittles, wants to go to Venus,
and leave Trayvon far behind.
Take a balloon and go sailing,
while Trayvon, Trayvon slowly dies.
And he shall be Trayvon,
And he shall be a hood man.
And he shall be Trayvon,
in tradition with the family plan.
And he shall be Trayvon,
And he shall be a hood man.
......heeee shaaaall beeee TraaaaayyyyVVVVVVooooooonn.
The only reason that I didn’t spit coffee all over my monitor was because I’ve learned my lesson; I now take my coffee through the drinking tube of an M17 gas mask.
Nice job
Many, many WWII movies concerning Nazi Germany used the Horst Wessel lied as background music when showing scenes of Nazis marching or doing whatever. I doubt most non-German moviegoers knew what they were listening to.
Wessel’s family background was quite a cut above Trayvons. His father was a well known music professor and Horst showed promise as a budding musician and composer himself. That is until he hooked up with the SA. His tune “Die Fahen Hoch’’(’’The Flag is High’’) was a set of lyrics he penned and used the melody from an old North German folk tune. After his death it became the second national German anthem. Goebbbels referred to Wessel as ‘A Socialist Christ’’.
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