Kafka's cause of death seemed to be starvation: the condition of his throat made eating too painful for him, and since parenteral nutrition had not yet been developed, there was no way to feed him. (3 June 1924)
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Wednesday 20th of September 1933 (-) — Assassin of SA-leader Horst Wessel Albrecht Höhler is abducted and shot to pieces by an SA commando. Berlin SA-Gruppenführer Karl Ernst ordered Höhler to be taken from a Gestapo prison at Alexanderplatz to Frankfurt an der Oder. In a wooded area near the highway Höhler was surrounded by armed men, riddled with bullets and buried in a shallow grave.