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- <title>
- Hitler: The Munich Trial
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--Hitler Portrait
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- March 3, 1924
- The Munich Trial
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> The trial of General Erich Ludendorff and Herr Adolph
- Hitler, heroes of the "Beer-hall Brawl" began at Munich, Bavarian
- capital.
- </p>
- <p> More than 150 witnesses are expected to be called, and there
- is a possibility that these will include Cardinal Faulhaber, ex-
- Crown Prince Rupprecht, ex-Dictator Gustav von Kahr. The Bavarian
- authorities were taking the utmost precautions against
- interference.
- </p>
- <p> Generalfeldmarschall von Hindenburg, having been besieged by
- innumerable letters to intervene on behalf of General Ludendorff,
- wrote the following letter, which was made public:
- </p>
- <p> "Let us maintain in these sad days the firm belief that the
- objective of the trial will show that everything which my dear
- comrade and helper did was dictated solely by glowing unselfish
- love for the Fatherland--and I assume the same motives inspire
- his present opponents, for I strive to be just to all sides."
- </p>
- <p> The National Association of ex-Officers issued the following
- protest:
- </p>
- <p> "To arraign the former leader before a court of justice does
- not correspond at all with the dignity of the German people, and
- even our enemy countries admit that Ludendorff was inspired
- solely by patriotic motives. The whole world will ridicule and
- jeer at Germans because of this patriotic tragedy."
- </p>
-
- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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