Word: reactionist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...editors of reactionist party newspapers were summoned to appear before the Supreme Court at Leipzig, Saxony, on the charge of conduct prejudicial to the safety of the republic. Both declined to appear or to acknowledge the authority of the court, stating that only a Bavarian court could try Bavarians...
...relative position of General Ludendorff and Hitler in relation to the reactionist movement in Germany is that while the former has his headquarters near Munich, he exercises control over the whole movement throughout Germany. He is the supreme agitator-in-chief of the royalist factions. Hitler is the strong man in Bavaria as leader of the Bavarian Nationals, who are out for a monarchical government; and he is always in close touch with Ludendorff...
...recent address to the Prussian Diet, Herr Severing, Minister of the Interior, mentioned Ludendorff by name on several occasions. He charged him with what was tantamount to conspiracy against the Republic, and thereby intimated that Ludendorff's part in the reactionist activities is understood but not appreciated. The aims of the royalist organizations are delightfully naive; reestablishment of the monarchy, expulsion of the French and Belgians from the Ruhr, progressive negotiations with Poland in order to keep the front door to Russia wide open and suppression of all revolutionary elements in the country! The aims of the Government...
...establish the monarchy in Bavaria was nipped in the bud by the Munich police. The royalists' plans provided for the detachment of Bavaria from the rest of the Reich and the formation of a South German Federation to include Austria. French influence is said to have favored the reactionist plot. Upward of 70 people were arrested...