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...Union of German Officers challenged ex-Reichswehr-general von Lossow to a duel on behalf of General von Ludendorff. One, Lieutenant Kriebl, joint defendant with "Ludy," also issued a challenge to von Lossow on his own account. It was alleged that he had betrayed General von Ludendorff...
...testimony of the defense was concluded and showed an effort to shift the responsibility for the putsch onto the shoulders of ex-Reichswehrgeneral von Lossow and von Seissermann, ex-Chief of the Bavarian State Police. According to the evidence, they had backed down at the last moment without giving any hint of their intentions...
...following the second session, Herr Stenglein, State Prosecutor, became infuriated and dropped the case for the prosecution when Herr Kohl, one of the lawyers for the defense, demanded that von Kahr, von Lossow and von Seissermann be arraigned with Ludendorff, Hitler and the lesser heroes now being tried. After a lapse of two days he was persuaded to take the case again...
Herr Hitler, taking up the main line of the defense, attempted to show that von Kahr, ex-Dictator of Bavaria, and Reichswehrgeneral von Lossow were inculpated. As this pointed to Bavarian Prince Ruprecht himself the trial was temporarily closed to the public...
Bavarian Dictator von Kahr and General von Lossow, Commander of the Bavarian division of the Reichswehr, resigned...