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- <link 93XP0428>
- <title>
- Hitler: An Acquittal
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--Hitler Portrait
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- April 7, 1924
- An Acquittal
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> There came an end to the treason trial at Munich.
- </p>
- <p> Feldmarschall Erich von Ludendorff (flagitious, inscrutable,
- unrelenting) was acquitted of all blame for his part in the so-
- called "Beer Hall" uprising* of last Fall.
- </p>
- <p> [On the evening of Nov. 8, 1923, Adolph Hitler, General
- Ludendorff and their followers suddenly appeared before a
- gathering of Bavarian officials in the Burgerbrau Kellar (famed
- beer cellar), fired shots to obtain silence and dramatically
- announced the overthrow of the Government, proclaiming themselves
- dictators.]
- </p>
- <p> The General appeared for his final day in court equipped in
- full military regalia with numerous orders, decorations. His
- acquittal was attributed to the strong feeling of favor which he
- had worked up as result of making no attempt to hide his
- Nationalistic sentiment. "Ludy" was unafraid. Last week, for
- example, he told his judges that they themselves sat "before the
- judgment of History, which does not send men who fought for the
- Fatherland to a fortress, but to a Valhalla."
- </p>
- <p> Adolph Hitler, the other prime investigator of the revolt,
- together with former Chief of Police Poehner, was sentenced to
- five years of confinement in a fortress and fined 200 gold marks.
- Since it was understood, however, that he will be obliged to
- serve only six months--and then receive a parole for good
- behavior, his followers received the verdict with loud approval,
- signalled it from the house-tops with wig-wagging deluged Hitler
- and Ludendorff with floral tributes, cried out: "Down with Von
- Kahr, Von Lessow, Selsser!"
- </p>
-
- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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