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Writer, abortion storyteller, mom of four in Colorful Colorado. Mostly writing posts, politics, and Muppet gifs. 🖖🏼🌹🇲🇽 🏔️ www.instagram.com/c.j.perez.writes
![Goebbels had been looking for someone to turn into a martyr for the Nazi cause. His first attempt was with Albert Leo Schlageter, a Freikorps member and saboteur, who was caught attempting to blow up a train in the Ruhr region, which at the time was occupied by French troops in retaliation for Germany's not adhering to its schedule of reparation payments. Schlageter had been executed by the French and his grave later became a Nazi shrine. There were also the 16 Nazis who had died during the Beer Hall Putsch, and who were honored with a public ceremony every year on the anniversary of the Putsch. A memorial, which passers-by had to salute, was built for them in Munich.[15][60] With two other party members who headed the list that the party later made of "Those Members of the Movement Who Have Been Murdered", Goebbels did not even make an effort to martyr them.[61]
Goebbels saw in Wessel's shooting the possibility of a propaganda bonanza. He eulogized Wessel in his newspaper, Der Angriff, in overtly Christian tones:
A Christian Socialist! A man who calls out through his deeds: 'Come to me, I shall redeem you!' ... A divine element works in him. making him the man he is and causing him to act in this way and no other. One man must set an example and offer himself up as a sacrifice! Well, then, I am ready![35]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2orsuabrdskjpuglpru77po2/bafkreidomgbnrkrxksoaoqzh4uyehy3yrwpsang3pgiphnccbgvr6crd5y)
