https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horst-Wessel-Lied

Horst Wessel was a Nazi street fighter. He died in an argument with his landlady. He owed rent and she’d asked some local boys to be at the meeting. Turns out the locals were Communists. The Nazi Party turned Horst into a martyr and made the song about him the Party anthem.

Kirk was just lucky enough to publicly catch a bullet.