Wow or Ouch...?

ichabod · 12-07-2002, 11:14 PM

It is the pistol of Horst Wessel. Herr Wessel was a Nazi Storm Trooper, killed in 1930 by Communists. After his death, a poem he'd written titled, "Die fahne hoch", literally "The Flag Highly", was found amongst his belongings and set to the tune of an old German marching song. The song came to be one of the anthems of Nazi Germany and is often heard in movies. You can hear a snippet of the song in "The Blues Brothers" in the scene where the head Illinois Nazi is seated at a desk, painting a ceramic eagle as a DMV worker gives him Elwood and Jake's fake street address. Why am I so sure that the P.08 belonged to Horst Wessel ? Well, in his spare time he was a pimp . <img src="graemlins/icon107.gif" border="0" alt="[icon107]" />

12-07-2002, 11:14 PM	#5
ichabod User Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 31 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	It is the pistol of Horst Wessel. Herr Wessel was a Nazi Storm Trooper, killed in 1930 by Communists. After his death, a poem he'd written titled, "Die fahne hoch", literally "The Flag Highly", was found amongst his belongings and set to the tune of an old German marching song. The song came to be one of the anthems of Nazi Germany and is often heard in movies. You can hear a snippet of the song in "The Blues Brothers" in the scene where the head Illinois Nazi is seated at a desk, painting a ceramic eagle as a DMV worker gives him Elwood and Jake's fake street address. Why am I so sure that the P.08 belonged to Horst Wessel ? Well, in his spare time he was a pimp . <img src="graemlins/icon107.gif" border="0" alt="[icon107]" /> __________________ "No snowflake ever feels responsible for the avalanche." Haywood Yasumi