In 1934, a regulation promulgated in a certain country required that when the Horst-Wessel-Lied was sung, what gesture must be performed?
Horst-Wessel-Lied sung by the SA at the funeral, and was thereafter extensively used at party functions, as well as sung by the SA during street parades. When Adolf Hitler became the Chancellor of Germany in January 1933, the "Horst Wessel Song" became a national symbol by law on 19 May 1933. The following year, a regulation required the right arm be extended and raised in the "Hitler salute" when the (identical) first and fourth verses were sung. Nazi leaders can be seen singing the song at the finale of Leni Riefenstahl's 1935 film "Triumph of the Will." Hitler also mandated the
Horst-Wessel-Lied Horst-Wessel-Lied "'" (English: "Horst Wessel Song"; ), also known by its opening words, "'" ("Raise the Flag"), was used as the anthem of the Nazi Party (NSDAP) from 1930 to 1945. From 1933 to 1945 the Nazis made it the co-national anthem of Germany, along with the first stanza of the "Deutschlandlied". Since the end of World War II, the anthem has been banned in Germany and Austria. 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. Wessel wrote songs for