Word: kahr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hitler plunged into local Munich politics, rose by sheer gift of gab, lung power and personal magnetism to such eminence that on the night of Nov. 8, 1923 he with General Erich Ludendorff attempted the famed "Beer Putsch." In the presence of the Military Governor of Bavaria, General von Kahr, spellbinder Hitler leaped upon a beer-greasy table and bellowed...
...proclaim the Nationalist Revolution! Von Kahr and his brother officers will please join me. I guarantee their safety...
Governor von Kahr did join Hitler & Ludendorff ("at the point of a pistol," he afterwards testified). Enough other beer-soused Bavarians joined to make it necessary for a Reichswehr regiment to shoot several people. When Ludendorff & Hitler were tried for high treason the General was acquitted, the upstart given a light prison sentence from which he was released in a few months ("as insane," say enemies...