Word: wessels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...came to sign the Communazi Pact which emboldened Germany to plunge into World War II (TIME, Aug. 28). There was even a Red Army band (there had been none before), but Germany and Russia were not yet good enough friends for it to burst into either the Horst Wessel song or the Internationale. As the German Foreign Minister alighted, as he shook hands with the Soviet greeting committee and paced stiffly along inspecting his honor guard, the band merely tootled a Red Air Force ditty, Higher and Higher, which no Nazi was likely to recognize. As the Germans swept away...
...every war a dragon's-teeth crop of war songs begins to sprout. Germany, which has been on a war-song basis since Hitler came to power, last week had some new Teutonic hymns of might to add to the Horst Wessel Song and Deutschland, er Alles...
...DETROIT-Wessel Smitten- Harper...
...Every child says "Heil Hitler!" from 50 to 150 times a day, is taught to venerate: Horst Wessel, a pimp; Poet Dietrich Eckart, a drug addict; Leo Schlageter, a railroad wrecker. (Minister of Education Bernhard Rust has frequently been confined in a sanatorium during violent attacks of insanity...
...from an uncle. The village barber of Plymouth, Ind., where his family then lived, taught him how to play it. Soon Flutist Van Vactor was well along on a flute-playing career that wound up in the ranks of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Meanwhile, he studied composition with Composer Wessel at North western University, later in Europe. His prize-winning symphony, which will be performed this winter in Manhattan, he describes as "absolute, dissonant, and, I hope, pleasant...