Word: landsberg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reputation of a hellraiser. In the famed-and abortive-beer-hall Putsch of 1923 he marched along with the boys (as the Party's flag-bearer), but the Republican police considered him so unimportant that they did not bother to arrest him. While Hitler was serving time in Landsberg Prison and Göring was recovering from his wounds in Sweden, the youthful Heinrich was a student of experimental agriculture at the University of Munich...
...monarchist attempt to seize power a month later; but for this abortive Putsch Führer Hitler arrived too late. An even less successful National Socialist attempt?the famed Munich Beer Hall Putsch of 1923?provided the party with dead martyrs, landed Herr Hitler in jail. His incarceration at Landsberg Fortress gave him time to write the first volume of Mein Kampf, now a "must" on every German bookshelf...
...Guard, which has headquarters at Oklahoma City, maintains units in Oklahoma, Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico. In August 1924, the division, at the suggestion of the Arizona department, adopted as its insignia an old Navajo Indian emblem, a swastika.* In August 1924, Adolf Hitler was in Cell No. 7, Landsberg Fortress, near Munich, serving time for his "beer-hall Putsch," eleven years away from making the swastika the centre of the German national flag...
...Such as Adolf Hitler endured after his Beer Hall Putsch misfired in 1923. In the Fortress of Landsberg he lived like a fighting cock, occupied his leisure in writing Mein Kampf, the book, which fired all Germany...
...this work, which was written by Hitler during his imprisonment from November, 1923, to December, 1924, in the fortress of Landsberg, following his unsuccessful attempt to take over the Government of Bavaria, was published on July 18, 1925, in an edition of 10,000 copies which was completely sold out in advance of publication. Vol. II was published on December 10, 1926 (postdated 1927) in an edition of only 8,000 copies, in a binding uniform with the second (revised) edition of Vol. 1, which had already been issued in January of the same year...