The Making of a Nazi Hero: The Murder and Myth of Horst Wessel

A sobering portrait of the mythologized Nazi figure who after being assassinated in 1930 was rendered a subject of propaganda by Joseph Goebbels shares insights into Nazi propaganda strategies while describing how Wessel was recreated as a martyr and upheld as a hero in the popular ""Horst Wessel Song,"" Die Fahne Hoch.