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A person walks past a giant figure of famous Lucha Libre wrestler El Santo in Mazatlan January 24, 2013. The municipality set up eight giant figures made by Mexican artist Jorge Gonzalez Neri for the upcoming carnival celebrations. (Photo by Stringer/Reuters)
A person walks past a giant figure of famous Lucha Libre wrestler El Santo in Mazatlan January 24, 2013. The municipality set up eight giant figures made by Mexican artist Jorge Gonzalez Neri for the upcoming carnival celebrations. (Photo by Stringer/Reuters)




Ultra-Orthodox Jewish visitors look at a display of Nazi flags at Yad Vashem's Holocaust History Museum in Jerusalem January 25, 2013, ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance day which will be marked on January 27. (Photo by Amir Cohen/Reuters)
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish visitors look at a display of Nazi flags at Yad Vashem's Holocaust History Museum in Jerusalem January 25, 2013, ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance day which will be marked on January 27. (Photo by Amir Cohen/Reuters)




Authorities carry out the court-ordered punishment of the amputation of three fingers of a convicted thief, January 24, 2013. The 29-year-old man was convicted for being part of a 10-member gang that carried out burglaries in the city and for having “illegal relations”, according to the Mehr news agency. He was sentenced to the amputation, the confiscation of his property and three years in prison. (Photo by Mohsen Tavarro/Associated Press)
Authorities carry out the court-ordered punishment of the amputation of three fingers of a convicted thief, January 24, 2013. The 29-year-old man was convicted for being part of a 10-member gang that carried out burglaries in the city and for having “illegal relations”, according to the Mehr news agency. He was sentenced to the amputation, the confiscation of his property and three years in prison. (Photo by Mohsen Tavarro/Associated Press)




A model presents a creation by French designer Jean Paul Gaultier during the Haute Couture Spring-Summer 2013 collection shows on January 23, 2013 in Paris. (Photo by Pierre Verdy/AFP Photo)
A model presents a creation by French designer Jean Paul Gaultier during the Haute Couture Spring-Summer 2013 collection shows on January 23, 2013 in Paris. (Photo by Pierre Verdy/AFP Photo)




Steam rises from a heating plant rises in the below freezing temperatures in Minsk, Belarus, on January 23, 2013. (Photo by Sergei Grits/Associated Press)
Steam rises from a heating plant rises in the below freezing temperatures in Minsk, Belarus, on January 23, 2013. (Photo by Sergei Grits/Associated Press)




U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pounds her fists as she responds to intense questioning on the September attacks on U.S. diplomatic sites in Benghazi, Libya, during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, on January 23, 2013. (Photo by Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pounds her fists as she responds to intense questioning on the September attacks on U.S. diplomatic sites in Benghazi, Libya, during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, on January 23, 2013. (Photo by Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)




Relatives and friends of Lubna Hanash mourn during her funeral in Bethlehem. Israeli soldiers shot and killed Lubna near the West Bank town of Hebron, said Kamil Hmaid, the Palestinian governor of the Hebron district, January 23, 2013. The Israeli military said soldiers were attacked with firebombs and fired back. The 22-year-old woman was driving in a car when she was shot. (Photo by Bernat Armangue/Associated Press)
Relatives and friends of Lubna Hanash mourn during her funeral in Bethlehem. Israeli soldiers shot and killed Lubna near the West Bank town of Hebron, said Kamil Hmaid, the Palestinian governor of the Hebron district, January 23, 2013. The Israeli military said soldiers were attacked with firebombs and fired back. The 22-year-old woman was driving in a car when she was shot. (Photo by Bernat Armangue/Associated Press)




Steel workers in clash with riot police using pepper spray, during a protest outside the Prime Minister's office in Brussels, January 25, 2013. The world's leading steel and mining company ArcelorMittal announced that it will close a coke plant and six production lines in Belgium, in a move that threatens 1,300 jobs. (Photo by Yves Logghe/Associated Press)
Steel workers in clash with riot police using pepper spray, during a protest outside the Prime Minister's office in Brussels, January 25, 2013. The world's leading steel and mining company ArcelorMittal announced that it will close a coke plant and six production lines in Belgium, in a move that threatens 1,300 jobs. (Photo by Yves Logghe/Associated Press)




Commuters ride on the roof of a train as they come back to the city after attending the final prayer of Biswa Ijtema in Dhaka January 20, 2013. Thousands of Muslims joined the Akheri Munajat, the final supplication as the second phase of the Muslims congregation concluded by seeking forgiveness and blessings for mankind on Sunday, local media reported. (Photo by Andrew Biraj/Reuters)
Commuters ride on the roof of a train as they come back to the city after attending the final prayer of Biswa Ijtema in Dhaka January 20, 2013. Thousands of Muslims joined the Akheri Munajat, the final supplication as the second phase of the Muslims congregation concluded by seeking forgiveness and blessings for mankind on Sunday, local media reported. (Photo by Andrew Biraj/Reuters)




A truck is covered in ice as firefighters help to extinguish a massive blaze at a vacant warehouse on January 23, 2013 in Chicago, Illinois. More than 200 firefighters battled a five-alarm fire as temperatures were in the single digits. (Photo by Scott Olson)
A truck is covered in ice as firefighters help to extinguish a massive blaze at a vacant warehouse on January 23, 2013 in Chicago, Illinois. More than 200 firefighters battled a five-alarm fire as temperatures were in the single digits. (Photo by Scott Olson)
“Horst Ludwig Wessel (October 9, 1907 – February 23, 1930) was a German Nazi activist who was made a posthumous hero of the Nazi movement following his violent death in 1930. He was the author of the lyrics to the song “Die Fahne hoch” (“The Flag On High”), usually known as Horst-Wessel-Lied (“The Horst Wessel Song”), which became the Nazi Party anthem and, de facto, Germany's co-national anthem from 1933 to 1945.





Wessel played the schalmei (shawm), a type of oboe popular in Germany, and he founded an SA Schalmeienkapelle (shawm band), which provided music during SA events. In early 1929, Wessel wrote the lyrics for a new Nazi fight song (Kampflied), which was first published in Goebbels's newspaper Der Angriff in September, under the title “Der Unbekannte SA-Mann” (the Unknown SA-Man). This song later became known as “Die Fahne hoch” and as the “Horst Wessel Song”. It was later claimed by the Nazis that Wessel also wrote the music, but the tune was likely taken from a World War I German Imperial Navy song, and is probably originally a folk song.

At that time, the Alexanderplatz, the centre of Berlin's nightlife, was part of the territory of Wessel's SA troop. In September 1929, he met Erna Jänicke, an 18-year-old prostitute, in a bar. Soon he moved into her apartment in Große Frankfurter Straße (today Karl-Marx-Allee). The landlady was Elisabeth Salm, whose late husband had been an active Communist. After a few months, there was a dispute between Salm and Wessel over unpaid rent.

In the evening of 14 January 1930, Wessel answered a knock on his door, and was shot in the face by an assailant who then fled the scene. Wessel lingered in hospital until he died on 23 February. Albrecht Höhler, an active member of the local Communist Party (KPD) branch was sentenced to six years imprisonment for the shooting, and was executed by the Gestapo after the Nazi accession to power in 1933. The KPD, however, denied any knowledge of the attack and said it resulted from a dispute over money between Wessel and his landlady. It is possible that Salm asked her late husband's old comrades to help deal with her recalcitrant tenant. Another version says Wessel's murderer was a rival for the affections of Jänicke. It is also possible the shooting was revenge by local Communists for Wessel's alleged role in the murder of a 17-year-old Communist, Camillo Ross, earlier in the day”. – Wikipedia



German Nazi activist Horst Wessel as a young boy, circa 1917. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)





The documents of Nazi activist Horst Wessel, including his membership papers of the Bismarckjugend, the youth movement of the DNVP (German National People's Party), and the Bund Wiking or Viking League, a paramilitary group, circa 1925. Wessel joined the Bismarckjugend in 1922 and the Viking League in 1923. (Photo by Henry Guttmann/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)





The party membership card of German Nazi activist Horst Wessel, dated 24th February 1928. The document is signed by Wessel (centre) and by Berlin regional party leader, or Gauleiter, Joseph Goebbels (bottom, left). (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)





German Nazi activist Horst Wessel (left) at the head of a parade of S.A. stormtroopers, or “brownshirts”, in Nuremberg, Germany, 1929. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)





German national socialist Horst Wessel, composer of the Nazi anthem “Die Fahne Hoch”. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images). Circa 1930





The grave of German Nazi activist Horst Wessel in graveyard of the Nikolaikirche, Berlin, 1933. The stone is inscribed “Die Fahne Hoch” (“Raise The Flag High”) – the official title of the Nazi Party anthem (also known as the “Horst Wessel Song”), to which Wessel wrote the lyrics. Photograph from a biography of Wessel by his sister, Ingeborg Wessel, published in 1933. (Photo by Henry Guttmann/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)





German police protect demonstrators commemorating the death of the Nazi Horst Wessel near Buelow Platz, Berlin. There were clashes between Nazis and Communists. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images). 1933





Nazi Party members and sympathisers outside the Communist Party headquarters in Buelow Platz, Berlin, during a ceremony in remembrance of the Nazi Horst Wessel who was murdered by communists. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images). 23rd January 1933
Hostesses pose in front of a Suzuki Ignis car at the European Motor Show in Brussels, Belgium, January 13, 2017. (Photo by Francois Lenoir/Reuters)

Hostesses pose in front of a Suzuki Ignis car at the European Motor Show in Brussels, Belgium, January 13, 2017. (Photo by Francois Lenoir/Reuters)
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A Hindu pilgrim feeds biscuits to an ox to seek blessing before heading for an annual trip to Sagar Island for the one-day festival of “Makar Sankranti”, in Kolkata, India January 10, 2017. (Photo by Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters)

A Hindu pilgrim feeds biscuits to an ox to seek blessing before heading for an annual trip to Sagar Island for the one-day festival of “Makar Sankranti”, in Kolkata, India January 10, 2017. (Photo by Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters)
A reveler participates in a parade on the streets during a carnival to mark the annual Orthodox St. Vasilij Day in the village of Vevcani, south of the Macedonian capital of Skopje, January 13, 2017. (Photo by Ognen Teofilovski/Reuters)

A reveler participates in a parade on the streets during a carnival to mark the annual Orthodox St. Vasilij Day in the village of Vevcani, south of the Macedonian capital of Skopje, January 13, 2017. (Photo by Ognen Teofilovski/Reuters)
A leader “Rolli” of a yodel group “Schuppel” runs in the snow in front of a farmstead during the “Silvesterchlausen” in the early morning in Urnaesch in the Swiss canton Appenzell Ausserroden on January 13, 2017. The “Silvesterchlausen” is a tradition of the Swiss canton Appenzell, where colorfull characters organized in groups called “Schuppel”, chase out the old year and welcome the new one. They run all day long from farmstead to farmstead, gather together to sing a jodel and great the farmers. A “Schuppel” consists of some “Schelli” and two “Rolli”, sometimes with female dresses and nice scenes over the head, despite the dress all participants are males. The Silversterchlausen run twice a year, first for the new Silvester on December 31, and then again on January 13, for the old Silvester following the Julian calendar. (Photo by Michael Buholzer/AFP Photo)

A leader “Rolli” of a yodel group “Schuppel” runs in the snow in front of a farmstead during the “Silvesterchlausen” in the early morning in Urnaesch in the Swiss canton Appenzell Ausserroden on January 13, 2017. (Photo by Michael Buholzer/AFP Photo)adic Nepalese Tribes
Only 156 people remained in the tribe when Jan visited in Accham District, Nepal, January 2016. (Photo by Jan Moller Hansen/Barcroft Images)

Only 156 people remained in the tribe when Jan visited in Accham District, Nepal, January 2016. Hidden deep in the Himalayan forest is one of the world’s last enduring nomadic tribes who are resisting attempts to move them into permanent settlements. (Photo by Jan Moller Hansen/Barcroft Images)
Model Jessie May Smart poses with Blue Morpho butterflys, ahead of the opening of, “Butterflies in the Glasshouse”, at RHS Wisley in Wisley, Britain, January 13, 2017. (Photo by Peter Nicholls/Reuters)

Model Jessie May Smart poses with Blue Morpho butterflys, ahead of the opening of, “Butterflies in the Glasshouse”, at RHS Wisley in Wisley, Britain, January 13, 2017. (Photo by Peter Nicholls/Reuters)

A man looks at waves as they crash against a lighthouse in the northern Spanish village of Viavelez, Spain January 13, 2017. (Photo by Eloy Alonso/Reuters)

A man looks at waves as they crash against a lighthouse in the northern Spanish village of Viavelez, Spain January 13, 2017. (Photo by Eloy Alonso/Reuters)
A Look at Life in China
A woman walks up the steps decorated ahead of the Chinese New Year festival in Beijing, China, Thursday, January 12, 2017. The Chinese Lunar New Year is the most important holiday for Chinese and hundreds of millions are expected to return to their hometown to spend the new year with their family and relatives. (Photo by Ng Han Guan/AP Photo)