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  1. The most famous Nazi martyr, the Ashli Babbit of 1923 if you will, was a young anti-communist brownshirt by the name of #Horst #Wessel who was a known violent brawler in the pitched street battles between left and right during those days.

    He was shot by a couple of his Communist enemies and died later in the hospital of blood poisoning.

    #Joseph #Goebbels, Hitler’s Stephen Miller/Steve Bannon, made him famous by filming his PR stunt funeral march and distributing it all over the country.

    He became a household name through the “The Horst Wessel song”, which became an alternate German National Anthem.

    Goebbels even got the churches to play it because young Horst was such a good Christian and a downright great Nazi.

    Those of you who’ve seen #Leni #Riefenstahl’s movie about Hitler’s biggest rally at Nuremberg, “Triumph of the Will” will recognize it as the song they all sing at the ecstatic climax.

    #Trump’s rallies aren’t as elegantly staged nor are the crowds as big. (Don’t tell him that.)
    But the intention is the same.

    He may not have actually read that book of Hitler speeches but he didn’t need to. He’s a natural

    digbysblog.net/2024/03/22/trum