The Launching of the Training Ship Horst Wessel
by Rudolf Hess
The source: “An das Schulschiff ‘Horst Wessel’,” in Rudolf Hess, Reden (Munich: Zentralverlag der NSDAP., 1938), pp. 191-194.
This ship is to bear the name of the poet and fighter at the front lines of the German revolution, “Horst Wessel,” just as its sister ship the Gorch Fockbears the name of the poet and fighter in the war at sea.
These naval training…
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