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...stop fighting when the. War ended. Enraged at the Weimar Republicans, who to his mind were accepting the Versailles Treaty lying down. Albert Schlageter joined a guerrilla band known as the Baltikum troops. When these disbanded he moved to Dusseldorf. In 1923 when the French began to exploit the Ruhr coal mines for German failure to meet Reparations payments. Albert Leo Schlageter and his friends went to work. Railroad bridges were bombed, canal locks smashed, dams destroyed-the French got little benefit from their seized coal. On May 8 Schlageter and several associates were caught and tried by French court...
...prepare for another festival. Nazi authorities announced plans last week for a gigantic mass meeting at Diisseldorf in honor of Albert Leo Schlageter. A Nazi martyr was Albert Leo Schlageter. Claimed as one of the original Brownshirts, he was shot by the French during the occupation of the Ruhr for damaging bridges and railways over which they were exporting German coal as part of the Reparations payment. On the field where he faced a firing squad a gigantic cross has been erected. There, to the rage of French authorities, tens of thousands of Storm Troopers will assemble next week...
...Versailles the forces of the Tri-color marched rough-shod over the prostrate enemy, saddling her with fascinating but utterly fantastic reparations, sinking her fleet and permanently crippling her army, and stripping her of her colonies. Not content with that, an army of occupation was placed in the Ruhr to force the payment of the national debt. As late as 1931 the old spirit flared up again with the smashing of the tentative German-Austrian trade and customs-union. All during these years the screws have been put on German industry and finance, and pressure enthusiastically applied, attempting to gouge...
...German police banned open air Communist meetings throughout the Reich, suppressed all Communist sheets in the industrial Ruhr, suppressed the Berlin Communist organ The Red Flag and 16 others, suppressed the historic Socialist Vorwärts for three days and confiscated as "treasonable" 1,000,000 copies of a special edition which Vorwärts published to open the Socialist election campaign...
...dizzy crags and bleak castle ramparts above the winding Rhine last week Germans lit defiant bonfires, marked the tenth anniversary of French occupation of the Ruhr, a move which Germans always interpreted as a French attempt to seize the left bank of the Rhine...