Word: munich
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...photographs of stage settings of 'Faust" are of great variety, illustrating the rapid development of the art since the middle of the last century. There are photographs of the settings used in the old Burgtheater of Vienna in 1885, of those used in Munich about ten years later, and of an early production of Max Reinhardt. Among the later settings represented is one used by the German Youth Movement in the open air theatre at Thale and one which was employed by German prisoners during the World War. The display will continue until March 15 at the Germanic Museum, after...
When the War broke out Oberst (Colonel) Epp was a dashing youthful blade stationed in Munich. He was made a general, held commands in France, Belgium, Serbia, Rumania, Italy. Idolized by his men, he was many times decorated. He emerged from the War with a von before his name, but to oldtimers General von Epp was still known as Oberst Epp. He joined the Bavarian People's Party, became known for his militarism, his patriotism, once testified at a murder trial that he thought political murder was justifiable homicide if committed in the interest of the Fatherland...
...every war the enemy tries to exaggerate its strength to impress the enemy. Hitler is just as good a braggart as Napoleon was. but his pretensions will be come true only the minute that the proletariat takes faith in them." Orating two days later to his Fascist followers at Munich, Leader Hitler flayed as "tools of Bolshevism" the Roman Catholics and German bourgeoisie who op pose...
...first emerged as a political figure in Catholic, reactionary Munich. Small, sparse Adolf Hitler with the little mustache and the great, rasping voice had gained the moral and financial support of General Erich Ludendorff, once Germany's most brilliant commander, already beginning to suffer from the delusions that led him to take up alchemy and the worship of Woden. In Munich the Hitler Brown Shirts first appeared; the Hitler symbol, the ancient swastika; and the Hitler doctrine which included disfranchising Jews, repudiation of the Treaty of Versailles and Reparations; death to all Communists, and the abolition of department stores...
...November 1923 occurred the famous Beer Putsch, when Adolf Hitler in a black frock coat, scowling over his smudge of a mustache, marched into the biggest beer garden in Munich, the "Burgerbraukeller," and proclaimed the National Socialist Revolution. There was a riot in the Odeonplatz. Adolf Hitler fled to the mountain village of Uffing and took refuge in the cottage of a devoted follower: Ernst Fritz Hanfstaengel, Harvard 1909, one-time Manhattan art dealer...