Editing Horst Wessel (section)

== Villainous actions ==
As an avowed [[Anti-Semitism|Anti-Semite]], Wessel published a number of Nazi propaganda pieces, many of which appeared in the ''Völkischer Beobachter ''propaganda magazine by [[Alfred Rosenberg]]. He was also the leader of a notoriously violent SA squadron responsible for attacks against Communists and other opponents of Nazism, resulting in a campaign of street violence as Communists clashed with the SA and other right-wing extremist groups such as the [[Viking League]] and the [[ Black Reichswehr|Black Reichswehr]], both of which Wessel was a member of. Wessel was marked for death by the Communist Party as a result of his participation in the street violence. Wessel's main tactic of initiating violence against Communists was to use anti-Communist rhetoric to provoke Communists into attacking, allowing his squadron to brutalise and often kill them. Wessel was also supposedly a pimp, and allegedly earned money procuring clients for prostitute Erna Jänicke.