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Goose-stepping Nazis have long marched smartly to the brassy, thumpy music of the Badenweiler march. No. 256 in the catechism of German Army marches, it was composed on the battlefield in 1914 by Bandmaster Georg Furst of Adolf Hitler's Bavarian Regiment. Herr Hitler first heard it at the Munich Hofbrauhaus, whose themesong it was. Bawled out by leather-lunged Bavarians while beer mugs banged the tables, the Badenweiler soon became a favorite of Fiihrer Hitler.* Later as a prop for such doggerel...
Church bells rang from swastika-decorated churches as the day began. The Reich's Cabinet ministers swore anew to their "faith in the word of Adolf Hitler." Nazi Party leaders gathered in the Sportspalast to renew their oaths of loyalty. The 16th Bavarian Reserve Infantry Regiment, in which Corporal Hitler once served, got out a photographic album of the regiment's World War history...
...women knitted 6,000 pairs of socks for the Fiihrer's soldiers. Housewives got together to bake a six-foot cake. From the more militarily minded came pistols, hand grenades, an assortment of knives and daggers, a live eagle which the Führer will release in the Bavarian Mountains...
...Turkey appealed for an armistice; Belgrade, Trieste, fell to the Allies; Austria-Hungary signed an armistice; sailors of the German Grand Fleet, ordered to sea in a move of desperation, mutinied; 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...
Student. Born in Munich in 1900, the son of a Catholic schoolteacher, he became an ensign-bearer in the Eleventh Bavarian Infantry Regiment at 17, but saw no active service at the World War front. The War over, he joined Fhrer Hitler's struggling German Labor Party at 19, was noted more for his regular attendance at Munich beer-hall powwows than for any great forcefulness. To his parents he was a problem child; in his Party he had the reputation of a hellraiser. In the famed-and abortive-beer-hall Putsch of 1923 he marched along with...