Wessel was the son of a pastor and educated at degree level, but was employed as a construction worker. Wessel wrote songs for the SA in conscious imitation of the Communist paramilitary, the Red Front Fighters' League, to provoke them into attacking his troops, and to keep up the spirits of his men. The lyrics to "Horst-Wessel-Lied" were written in 1929 by Sturmführer Horst Wessel, the commander of the Nazi paramilitary "Brownshirts" ( Sturmabteilung or "SA") in the Friedrichshain district of Berlin. Horst Wessel, credited as writing the lyrics of the "Horst Wessel Song"
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