Word: hitleritis
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...thousand undaunted warriors followed their great leader, Adolph Hitler, into battle. The occasion was the first military maneuvers held by the Bavarian Fascista Army, wholehearted supporters of the monarchy. All day long a bloodless battle raged around the villages of Starnberg and Oberwiensfeld just outside Munich. The men were a motley crew, some attired in civilian clothes, some in their old Reichswehr (Defence of the Realm) uniforms. But all were determined compatriots in the cause of the Vaterland. The men were equipped with revolvers and brass knuckles. The artillery was present only in imagination. The minnenwerfer (mortar) platoons were fully...
...interior, exposed to the Reich on Friday a far-reaching plot of the ultra-reactionaries in Bavaria against the government. On Saturday he followed this up with an almost hysterical message to the police all over Germany of "heightened alarm preparedness". The voice in the whirlwind is Herr Hitler, leader of the National Socialist party in Bavaria. This party has cemented itself with the Liberty party in Prussia, and Herr Severing asserts that the whole movement is backed by the ominous Ludendorff. Certain Paul Reveres in automobiles sent out by Hitler have been captured and have admitted, under third degree...