I dont know if they actually locked the door, but depending on the sources...
at the burgerbraukeller beer hall, hitler interrupted the speech of gustav von kahr. allegedly, there were between 2 and 3000 people in total who made the trip, on that faithful day. what is also interesting is that at that time, there were about 50,000 party members.
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Alfarth, Felix, businessman, B. July 5, 19O1 Bauriedl, Andreas, hatter, B. May 4, 1879 Casella, Theodor, bank clerk, A. August 8, 1900 Ehrlich, Wilhelm, bank clerk, B. August 19, 1894 Faust, Martin, bank clerk, B. January 27, 19O1 Hechenberger, Anton, locksmith, B. September 28, 1902 Korner, Oskar, businessman, B. January 4, 1875 Kuhn, Karl, headwaiter, B. July 26, 1897 Laforce, Karl, student of engineering, B. October 28, 1904 Neubauer, Kurt, valet, B. March 27, 1899 Pape, Claus Von, businessman, B. August 16, 1904 Pfordten, Theodor Son Der, county court councillor, B. May 14, 1873 Rickmers, Johann, retired cavalry captain, B. May 7, 1881 Scheubner-Richter, Max Erwin Von, doctor of engineering, B. January 9, 1884 Stransky, Lorenz, Ritter Von, engineer, B. March 14, 1889 Wolf, Wilhelm, businessman, A. October 19, 1898
these men were brave, but they were also driven to these measures by evil people, with evil intent(weimar government, at the behest of bolshevism). A miracle considering that hitler led from the front.
I sometimes ponder the real actions taken to establish the Reich so long ago. In themselves, they would not seem so crazy today.
While I have not been able to validate that Uncle Adolf was a member or not (many assume so because of the logo similarities, but that's not proof), I believe the Thule society was the real seed of this movement.
I have thought long and hard, read a bunch of things and keep coming back to it. Secret Societies. True unadulterated conversation and brainstorming in a recording device environment, with no "linkage." This, I believe is how they got their ideas so far.
This is probably the only reason their coordination (even thought they weren't successful at this time) got them so far. I have a suspicion the 1933 appointment had to have happened with a very tight group with very tight lips.
They would be called every name in the book today. Back in those days, most decent people understood what was going on and welcomed intelligent and rational change. Today we are faced with a completely ignorant and controllable populace, whose only real concern is when their next fix(addictions come in many forms) is. However, it will take extreme measures to fix the mess that we have found ourselves in, just as it did during weimar. history repeats itself.
It's not so different. I've heard that a way to describe it, "history doesn't repeat, but it definitely rhymes."
Weimar was degeneracy, debauchery, distractions pushed by jews and extortion of the German people. Rhymes with most of the West today.
Putsch was radical but simple, a small step. Each step was small on the way to the Reich
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