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...With the Resources Available." The greatest influence on his life, says Nuri, was a German colonel named Von Lossow, under whom he studied in Constantinople as a young Turkish army officer before World War I. During a classroom exercise one group of students was assigned to defend a fortified village, another to attack it. The student assigned to command the defenders announced that the town's fortifications were so out of date that it could never be defended, and that he was accordingly withdrawing to find a better place to fight...
Died. Lieut. General Otto von Lossow, 70, onetime Bavarian Reichswehr commander, who once called Hitler a "swashbuckling little ward politician" and suppressed the Munich Beer Hall putsch (1923); in Munich...
...understood, however, that he will be obliged to serve only six months-and then receive a parole for good behavior, his followers received the verdict with loud approval, signalled it from the housetops with wigwagging, deluged Hitler and Ludendorff with floral tributes, cried out: "Down with Von Kahr, Von Lossow, Seisser...
...treason? They say, in effect: "We were not the only ones. The highest Bavarian officials were in the plot, but got out when they thought it would fail. One of them was Dr. von Kahr, former Bavarian Dictator; another was the Commander of the reserve corps (Reichswehr), General Von Lossow. Another was Colonel von Seissermann, Munich police-chief. So there...
...Dictator, the General, and the Chief of Police did not, however, say all this in so many words. The Dictator said he joined the Hitler plot merely so that he could overthrow it. The General (Von Lossow) said that all they had in mind was the creation of a Directorate, of which Admiral Von Tirpitz was to be a member. Both of them referred to Prince Rupprecht as "His Majesty." The Chief of Police was forced to admit that all three of them were "hand in glove" with Hitler last November. Finally General Von Lossow left the court, refused...