This is a catch-all thread for your favorite bits of political history (American or otherwise) that stand out as bizzare or hilarious.
My favorite has to be the story of Horst Wessel's death. Wessel, a brownshirt who lent his name to the "Horst Wessel Lied", a Nazi marching song, shared an apartment with a live-in girlfriend in Berlin who happened to be a prostitute. He refused to pay his rent to his Communist landlady, who fetched some Communist toughs from a Red-run tavern to teach him a lesson. One of them, another pimp, shot poor Horst to death.
A bit of an oxymoron, no?
