Word: putsch
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...they expected clear-cut, reassuring statements, they were disappointed. Adolf Hitler's brightest predictions, as he spoke from Munich's Lowenbrdukeller on the 19th anniversary of his first abortive Putsch, were that Germany would hold her lines and some day strike back. His most fervent injunction to the people was that they pray for the Reich's survival "in this war for the existence or destruction of our nation...
...determined because in previous years the end of the Smoker has often been the occasion for a riot. Before the end of the Smoker night last year, it took a host of proctors, Yard cops, and Cambridge police to break up an attempted repetition of the legendary 1937 Spring "Putsch" on Radcliffe...
Grant also favored the ban on the grounds that Democracy must make a show of force in times of crisis. Comparing Coughlin's Social Justice with Hitler's abortive Beer Cellar Putsch, which took place in the days of the Weimar Republic, Grant said. "At that time, German Democracy showed that it was either weak or else that it had no confidence in itself, by handling the conspirators with kid gloves and letting them off with relatively easy sentences. Had the German government been stronger or had it had more confidence in itself. Hitler might well have not risen...
...Bormann was arrested for taking part in Hitler's attempted Munich Putsch, got a year in jail. Later he proved himself a nimble manipulator of Party funds, was treasurer of Hitler's 1932 Hilf-skasse racket, whereby money supposedly collected for injured Storm Troopers was turned over to Nazi leaders. Bormann enjoyed Party finance; in 1936 he bought a Mercedes-Benz deluxe for 38,000 marks. He rose to be Hess's administrative right hand, also got close to Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler...
Plans for a Putsch were already said to be in the hands of high Army and Navy officials. Peace overtures to Britain had been made by the Army through a Swedish banker. The Putschists proposed that after they had ended the Nazi regime, a "liberal" Germany would stand ready to join with Britain against the threat of Russia...