THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 6, 1999.
The Man Who Stood This is the Story of
Up to Hitler
Von Lossow said that he had Von Lossow said, that Hitler Von Lossow said he considered imagined himself to be Mussolini,' Hitler's abilities, in fact, to be suited Gambetta and the Messiah all rolled exactly, and only, for a political
been bawled at by Hitler for hours on end, and very wearisome it was.
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ITLER'S trial in 1924 for high treason has been compared with that of Dmitrov, the Bulgarian Communist, who was charged in 1933 with setting fire to the Reich- stag. In one sense, nothing could be more absurd.
For Dmitrov was as plainly" in- nocent as Hitler was confessedly guilty. Dmitrov was prosecuted by a Government (Hitler's) which would have given much to prove him guilty and send him to the block. Hitler himself was pro- secuted by a Government which half sympathised with his cause and which released him long before his sentence was up.
But there is this similarity-both the prisoners by superb artistry. turned the dock into a world plat- form for expounding their own be- liefs.
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On February 26, 1924, Hitler was indicted, along with General Luden-
into one.
drummer.
"MEIN KAMPF"
(MY STRUGGLE
as Hitler actually LIVED IT
Hitler 'faced trial on many occasions. Here he is eight years after the Munich flasco, now as an editor charged with treason.
With a grin he acknowledged the sacrifice. Thereupon Hitler began to try the Triumvirate!
mental Hitler."
Von Lossow considered Hitler's diatribes against the capitalists. abilities, in fact, to be suited exact He even forgave the police for ly, and only, for a political drum- shooting down his rising. mer! He had himself been bawled What was their complaint against at by Hitler for hours on end as
"I believe that the hour will come dorff, Captain Rohm (Stormtroop him? Didn't everyone know that he though he were a public meeting, when ihr masser, who to-day hold Chief of Staff); and seven others. had worked closely with them be- Very wearisome it was. Von Los- up the swastika flag in the streets, He had been in gaol in Landsberg fore the Rising? Hadn't they bor- sow hten discussed, none too kindly, will unite with those who fired on fortress since three days after Beer rowed, trained and paid his Brown- the "brutal Hitler" and the "genti- us on November 9. Blood will not Hall fiasco. He had thought of shirts at the time of the Ruhr
always divide us. ..The army that suicide (the third time!) by hunger "war?" Hadn't they also talked
we have built, grows from day to strike.
about a "March on Berlin" (though Hitler's turn came when the gen- day, from hour to hour, more But Hitler appeared in court as the wretched von Lossow had want- eral recalled Colonel Seisser's re- rapidly." perky an ever. He had recovered his ed to be assured of 51 per cent. proach to Hitler in the beer-hall for nerve, and well understood the whip probability of success)? Wasn't making his armed Rising (after From the dock he then indicted hand which he held.
their real complaint that at the de- swearing that he never would) when his enemies of high treason, begin- A great many other people had cisive hour he, Hitler, was willing Hitler had said, "Forgive me, but ning with the President of the Re- committed themselves in some de- to take prime responsibility-and it is for the sake of the Fatherland." public. "I accuse them because they gree or other (including the Bavar- leadership?
have brought ruin on seventy mil- ian Government's former Big Three,
"Was that the brutal Hitler or the lion souls.
He laughed at who had deserted him at the last up to this bold barrage. Hitler had sentimental Hitler?" Hitler inter- the sentence that was to be laid on. moment, State Commissioner Von said that he wanted no office, eh?
rupted sarcastically.
himself. "Declare me a thousand Kahr, Reichswehr General von Los- That he desired only to be the
times guilty, the Gods of eternal sow, and Police-colonel Seisser). "drummer of the Third Reich?" "It was the Hitler with a bad con- justice in history will scornfully Hitler was ready to make revela- Once upon a time, maybe. But not science!"
tear up the pleas of the prosecution tions on the lot if he was treated too recently, when he had imagined
"As to that," sneered Hitler, "The and the judgment of the court: for roughly. As the three in question himself to be the German Mussolini, only one who broke his word of they will find me innocent." were already pretty well broken the German Gambetta and the Ger- honour was General von Lossow.
Hitler could afford to laugh. The they were thrown to Hitler to maul. man Messiah all rolled up in one! On May 1." (when Von Lossow had court sent him down for five years, refused to carry out a vague quid the lowest penalty for high treason. pro quo to lend Hitler arms to beat The court might order, at discretion, an earlier release. Ludendorff was up the Communists).
For Distinguished
Service
General von Lossow alone stood
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"Neither!" snapped Von Lossow.
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"Loud and continued disorder" acquitted. He said bitterly: "I con- broke out in the court, in the midst sider it a disgrace to the uniform of which the general stamped out and decorations that I wear."
Hitler returned to his prison in and slammed the door. Hitler's
Landsberg fortress. derisive laugh followed him down the corridor and out of public life. Hitier dominated, the court. He made four speeches from the The popular hero-for dock, evoking general cheers. He something like it was lodged in a did not repeat the mistake of Luden- large sunny room on the first floor dorff, who launched a frontal at. tack on the Catholic
Church, Hitler was seeking, future allies; he confined himself to the Mar- xists, Jews and French oppressors. He modified his.
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This is the cell in which ''Hitler wa's confined after being sentenced to five years imprisonment. It was here he wrote most of “Mei'n Kampf."
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he was
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