Word: wessels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...captain Graham Taylor of the Crimson skiers was as usual the mainstay of the team, and copped second place in the individual competition. Taylor scored the only first for the Crimson when he beat out MIT's Andy Wessel in the tough six mile cross-country...
...grew in volume with the use of a sound truck and another charge: "Czisch is a stooge of the Americans!" On election day Konrad won easily. That night, young men marched the streets of Schwäbisch-Gmünd singing the Horst Wessel song. They stoned the house of Franz Czisch, shouted: "Go to Palestine where you belong!" Then they stoned the windows of Jewish shops...
...Nazi Horst Wessel song could be heard any Sunday in London's Bethnal Green. Frankly Fascist street meetings were attracting larger & larger audiences...
Almost every night some drunken American would insist that the band play the Nazis' Horst Wessel Lied. Reluctantly the musicians complied, hurrying the beat to get it over with, while the German customers stared morosely into their beers...
Died. Leo Borchard, 53, Russian-born conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, who fell from Nazi favor in 1937 when he refused to conduct the Nazi anthem, Horst Wessel, then was high in Allied favor after the fall of Berlin; shot by U.S. sentries when the British staff car in which he was riding failed to stop at their command, 35 minutes past curfew; in Berlin...