Word: wesseling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...infallible indication of the state of a country's moral and political health -"when the heart's chord of sorrow is touched, the sounds produced are sombre and forlorn"-has carried its ever-new message across the centuries to the turbulent days of the Horst Wessel song...
...Beethoven was the greatest of all march composers. Most dangerous: the composer of the Horst Wessel song...
Then everyone sings Deutschland Uber Alles and the Horst Wessel song...
Divorced. By Helen Lee Eames Doherty Wessel, stepdaughter of the late multimillionaire utilitycoon Henry L. Doherty: Theodore William Wessel, former Danish Chargé d'Affaires in Santiago; seven years after marriage; in West Palm Beach. Her extravagant Washington debut in threadbare 1930 was the target of Congressional criticism; party favors for some of the guests were automobiles...
Mourning. At home, German citizens tore the newspapers from the vendors' hands. In the black type they read the unbelievable story: "Fighting at Stalingrad has ceased." With bowed heads they heard it read over the radio, not to the blare of the Nazi Horst Wessel march, but to the strains of the tragic old German folk song: Ich Hatt' Einen Kameraden (I Had A Comrade). They did not know that some 115,000 officers and men had laid down their arms. But they knew that Stalingrad had been lost, and that it was one of the worst defeats...