Word: munich
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hands were assembled in the Bürgerbräu Keller, a low, barnlike building on Rosenheimerstrasse beyond the Deutsches Museum, and across the Isar River from Munich proper. Old friends greeted each other in the big, oblong beer hall-sanctum sanctorum of the Nazi Party, perhaps the best guarded room frequented by the best guarded man in the world. The veterans packed the balcony; pressed around the one central pillar supporting the entire ceiling; crowded to the very foot of the speaker's white rostrum. The big men-Hitler, Göebbels, Himmler, Frick, Hess, Ley, Rosenberg, Streicher...
...lkischer Beobachter's Munich correspondent Wilhelm Kaffl later described the scene in the beer hall at that very moment: "I stood on the ramp of the gallery overlooking the room crowded with brown and green uniforms. Groups had formed here and there, laughing, talking and exchanging greetings...
Promptly police went to work. Army sappers were rushed to clear away a ten-foot mass of debris. To forestall alarm or to help the search for dynamiters, blacked-out Munich was suddenly lit up. Someone started a wildfire rumor that lights meant peace: the Netherlands-Belgium offer had taken effect. Soon Germany's second hysterical false armistice was in full celebration. Police angrily cleared the streets and killed the hope...
...Germany, both official and otherwise, was frankly puzzled. Police were unwontedly vague. No concerted, planned roundup of any suspected group ensued. Arrests in Munich were numerous but unsystematic: the police, evidently not knowing whom to arrest, clapped this & that one into jail-among them two American reporters, Chicago Tribune's Ernest Pope and John Raleigh...
What Adolf Hitler went to Munich to say, and what he almost lost his life saying (see above), was that Germany was now resolved to lick "England," and might take up to five years...