The song was written by Horst Wessel, a party activist and SA leader, who was killed by a member of the Communist Party of Germany. The " Horst-Wessel-Lied" ("Song of Horst Wessel"), also known as " Die Fahne Hoch" ("The Flag Raised"), was the official anthem of the NSDAP. An example of this is the fascist song "Brüder in Zechen und Gruben" ("Brothers in mines and pits"), which copied the melody of the communist " Brüder, zur Sonne, zur Freiheit" (Brothers, to the sun, to freedom"), whose melody, in turn, belonged to the march "Smelo, tovarishchi, v nogu" ("Смело, товарищи, в ногу" "Comrades, let's bravely march") written in 1895/6 by Leonid Radin in Moscow's Taganka prison. Many pre-1933 SA songs were based on older German folk melodies, but there were also instances in which SA combat songs copied the melodies of rival Red Front Fighters songs, which were in turn based on Russian marches. It can be punished with up to three years of imprisonment. In modern Germany, the public singing or performing of songs identified exclusively with Nazi Germany is illegal. It became the national anthem of the Weimar Republic in 1922, but during the Nazi era, only the first stanza was used, followed by the SA song " Horst-Wessel-Lied". This observation applies above all to Das Lied der Deutschen ("The song of the Germans"), written in 1841. There is often confusion between songs written specifically for the Nazi Party, and much older German patriotic songs (from before World War I) that were used extensively by the Nazis and have become associated with them.
3 "Heil Hitler Dir!" ("Deutschland Erwache").2.5 "Hitlerleute" ("The Hitler's people").2.4 "Auf, Hitlerleute, schließt die Reihen" (Hitlernationale).2.3 "Die Hitlerleute” (Kameraden Laßt Erschallen).2.2 "Kampflied der Nationalsozialisten".