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A 1935 Nazi Party publication roll of honor list for members killed in the Beer Hall Putsch in 1923. Ehrentafel blutzeugen.jpg
A 1935 Nazi Party publication roll of honor list for members killed in the Beer Hall Putsch in 1923.

Blutzeuge (German for "blood witness") was a term used in Nazi Germany during the early 20th century for members of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP) and associated organizations considered to be martyrs. Blutzeuge was used in Nazi propaganda in the 1930s and 1940s to depict a hero cult of "fallen" Nazis who had been murdered by opponents in the political violence in Germany during the Weimar Republic and after the Nazi seizure of control in January 1933. Adolf Hitler dedicated his book Mein Kampf to the sixteen NSDAP members killed in the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch. [1]

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