Word: reischswehr
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...flags, death's head flags with the motto Mit Gott für Kaiser und der Vaterland. As the royalist hymns arose, adjacent factories and warehouses were lined with workers, stenographers and pale-faced girls who struck up the Communist Internationale in competition with the blare of the Reischswehr bands...
...Adolf Hitler (TIME, Nov. 19), and the discrediting of General Erich von Ludendorff (TIME, Nov. 19), Bavaria has been the scene of much Monarchist plotting. Rumors of an impending putsch by Hitlerites caused Dictator von Kahr and General von Lössow, Commander of the Bavarian section of the Reischswehr, to issue a joint manifesto stating that they had evidence of the putsch and that they were taking every necessary precaution to safeguard the State. Dictator von Kahr warned the people that the troops would not hesitate to fire upon public demonstrations against the Government and that participants in such...
...that is no reason why Germany's soldiers should not practice with the machinenpistolen . . . . Who will know the difference? The Entente is once more deceived and the German Government . . . can be sure of disposing, when the time for mobilization arrives, of a sufficient number of soldiers of the Reischswehr, sufficiently skilled in the handling of the machinenpistolen to fulfill their functions...
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