Trump War Propaganda: Otto Warmbier as Horst Wessel

By NCD on Wed, 01/31/2018 - 10:29am |

NYT: Trump had in the audience the parents and siblings of Otto Warmbier, an American student who was sentenced to 15 years in a North Korean forced-labor camp, and who died after being sent back to the United States with severe injuries. He seemed to be using Warmbier’s death to propagandize for war: “Tonight we pledge to honor Otto’s memory with total American resolve.”

Horst Wessel - was a local leader in Berlin of the Nazi Party's "stormtroopers" – the Sturmabteilung or "SA" – who is best known for being made into a martyr for the Nazi cause by Joseph Goebbels after Wessel's murder in 1930.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/30/opinion/trump-boring-warmongering-sotu.html