Word: putsch
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...make conditional peace with any Wehrmacht generals' regime that kicks out the top Nazis. To many a Wehrmacht general the Russian offer makes sense.* But it can be accepted only by an Army revolt. Hitler's strongest man in the way of such an anti-Nazi Putsch is Heinrich Himmler -supreme boss of the German home front; commander of 600,000 splendidly trained and well-armed SS youths, supersaturated with Naziism, mostly stationed on the home front...
...these beer halls, Himmler first heard Hitler. At once, he joined the party of the flaccid man with the frenetic shriek and the square-cut mustache. He carried the standard in the abortive Nazi beer-cellar Putsch of 1923. Himmler was not arrested; the Bavarian police of the Weimar Republic told him to run along and find nicer playmates...
...most of his SS divisions on the home front. In all cities the SS occupies strategic buildings. They have been fortified and stocked with ample supplies of arms, munitions and food. If the Blackshirts should be called by Himmler to suppress a people's rebellion, or an Army Putsch, they would gladly give their lives in fulfillment of their beloved "Nibelungenlied," which ends by the glorification of final destruction...
...Antonescu's arrests and executions were not to crush an Iron Guard Putsch. Rumania's uprising was spontaneous and was spreading through all classes. It was led by agitators belonging particularly to the Communist and Peasant parties. Perhaps many disillusioned Iron Guardists joined...
Haushofer and Hitler. World War I raised young Haushofer to the rank of major general. He had a young aide-decamp named Rudolf Hess, who in the post war years attended his lectures on geography at the University of Munich. When the Nazi Beer Hall Putsch failed (1923), Haushofer hid Hess in his mountain home. When Hess was imprisoned with Hitler, Haushofer visited them there...