Word: hitler
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Within the past week, Minister President Held of Bavaria girt up his loins preparatory to running in the Presidential election (scheduled for Mar. 29) for the Bavarian People's Party, while General Erich von Ludendorff, succumbing to the urge of his master, Adolf Hitler, would-be imitator of Mussolini, threw his helmet into the ring for the "Volkisch" Party, extreme Monarchists...
...Munich, capital of Bavaria, was held the "little Hitler trial," at which the lesser followers of "Ludy" and Hitler were tried for their share in the "beerhall brawl" (TIME, Nov. 19, March 3, 24, April...
...April 1 (when the verdict was given in the Ludendorff-Hitler trial) was a day of shame, but today is a day of popular rejoicing. Various elements have sought to crush the popular movement, but Heaven has raised it aloft...
...Germans sentenced for sabotage in the Ruhr. Crying "Down with the Republic! Down with the Jews!" the howling mass of monarchists seized republican flags and tore them up. Cavalry squadrons of Reichswehr charged the monarchists and ended their assault on the flag of the Reich. Their cheers for Hitler and Ludendorff broke up the marching order of 30 nationalist organizations and destroyed their treasonable emblems. Scores were hurt in the fighting...
...evening of Nov. 8, 1923, Adolph Hitler, General Ludendorff and their followers suddenly appeared before a gathering of Bavarian officials in the Burgerbrau Kellar (famed beer cellar), fired shots to obtain silence arid dramatically announced the overthrow of the Government, proclaiming themselves dictators...