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After his execution he became a hero to German nationalists. the Nazi party fully exploited the Schlageter story. Hitler refered to him in Mein Kampf . Rituals were constructed to commemorate his death, and in 1931 his Memorial Society succeeded in getting a monument erected near the site of his execution, a giant cross placed amid sunken stone rings. Other smaller memorials were also created. After the war, the main Schlageter memorial was destroyed by occupying Allied forces as part of the denazification process.

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