The German Communist Party sought to debunk the emerging mythology of Schlageter by circulating a speech by Karl Radek portraying him as an honourable but misguided figure.[5] It was the Nazi party who most fully exploited the Schlageter story. Hitler refers to him in Mein Kampf.[6] Rituals were constructed to commemorate his death, and in 1931 the Memorial Society succeeded in getting a monument erected near the site of his execution.