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Finance: Ludwig Count Schwerin von Krosigk...
...Socialist Kurt Eisner led a monster demonstration in Munich which culminated in the proclaiming, November 8, of the Bavarian Socialist Republic; the German Majority Socialists served the Kaiser with an ultimatum to abdicate; revolution spread to Frankfort, Cologne, Diisseldorf, Leipzig, Stuttgart, Madgeburg, Brunswick; the rulers of Brunswick, Bavaria, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, abdicated; the Kaiser fled; the German Republic was proclaimed; Croatian independence was proclaimed in Zagreb; a revolt in Budapest put liberal Count Karolyi in power...
Final snook of the German week to be cocked was that of Finance Minister Count Lutz Schwerin von Krosigk. Replying to a speech in which British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden recently said that Germany in the period of Reparations borrowed 18 billion marks and paid less than eight billion, the Count by implication called Mr. Eden a liar. "The losses Germany suffered through tribute," roared Count Schwerin von Krosigk, "far exceeded the capital lent...
Because German legal technicalities could be satisfied in no other way, a most unusual sentence was imposed last week in Schwerin, the home town of the new Nazi Martyr "Saint Gustloff." The prisoner, one Adolph Seefeld, was sentenced by Schwerin's methodical court to be placed in "preventive detention" indefinitely, to serve 15 years in jail, to be castrated and to be beheaded, this last sentence to be carried out first. Aged 65, Schwerin's sinful Seefeld had killed a dozen young boys in the course of his orgies...
Wessel song, hailed "Our Martyr!" Another special steamed out of Munich and, over cleared tracks with all switches spiked, roared down toward Schwerin. This was the luxurious train of the Realmleader, and only a handful of officials knew his destination. It had not been known that Adolf Hitler would orate over the corpse from Switzerland. In the eyes of bored neutrals, nothing had happened except that the No. I Nazi Agent in the Swiss Republic, little-known Wilhelm...