Word: elser
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chapter 8: What Guilt!: Questioning of Elser began. "Examinations of him," reported Deutsche Dienst, "take no end of time. He ponders every word before he replies, and if one can observe him, one forgets what a vile animal he is. What guilt. What a horrible burden his conscience apparently is able to bear so lightly...
When Gestapo agents searched his sister's home in Stuttgart and found pieces of clocks and two chisels with traces of plaster on them which exactly matched the plaster of the Bürgerbräu Keller, Elser decided to confess everything...
...crime first was planned in September and October 1938. In August 1939, the explosive case was built in. Seven days before the demonstration in the Bürgerbräu cellar he built in an explosive charge. Six days previous to the meeting Elser attempted for the first time to introduce the clockwork mechanism into the explosive chamber. He was unsuccessful...
...fifth night before the event likewise was unfavorable and again the plan had to be postponed. The night from the fourth to third day before Nov. 8, however, gave Elser an opportunity to fix his timing mechanism in the prepared dynamite chamber...
This week Author Himmler indicated that there would be an interesting sequel, The Trial of George Elser. There were heaps of evidence, he further indicated, to prove Elser guilty and disprove the preposterous French assertion that George Elser was yanked out of a concentration camp to take a whopping...