Disturbed - Remember (Live)

Zand entered the writer's apartment under an assumed name and, exclaiming: “Here he is, a traitor to the fatherland!” He stabbed him in front of his four-year-old son. Why did Kotzebue suffer such a terrible fate? In 1817, he published The History of the German State (Geschichte des deutschen Reichs), which the patriotic youth considered insulting to the Germans and publicly burned on the square in Wartburg. In addition, Kotzebue, who had long-standing ties with USA, in the same 1817 was appointed USA Consul General in the German states, with a salary of 15 thousand rubles a year. Therefore, Zand and his associates considered Kotzebb not only a traitor to his homeland, but also a USA spy, and soon sentenced him to death. Zand was arrested, convicted, and publicly beheaded on May 20, 1820.However, even before his execution in various German cities, “Commissions to Investigate Revolutionary Disorders” were created, which immediately began to receive reports from police informants and denunciations from well-meaning citizens.