Making Hitler - The Beer Hall Putsch by McMahon Jennifer

Author:McMahon, Jennifer [McMahon, Jennifer]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-04-24T16:00:00+00:00

During the month of April the committee learned that the Communists were planning armed demonstrations during the traditional May Day celebrations, with the approval of the police. Fearing that their enemy might use the occasion to stage a Bolshevik coup, the committee wrote to Lossow informing him of their intention to offer armed resistance for the protection of Bavaria.

Hitler and Göring were meanwhile able to secure a cache of weapons from a Councilor in Dachau, who was offering them for sale. As Hitler later recalled:

“We drove the bargain, although not without my warning them that they wouldn't see the colour of my money until the weapons were in my possession. We also found, on the airfield at Schleissheim, thousands of rifles, mess-tins, haversacks, a pile of useless junk. But, after it had been repaired, there would be enough to equip a regiment. I went to see Lossow and handed him all this material, urging him to take care of it and telling him, moreover, that I would make no use of it except in the event of a show-down with Communism. It was thus solemnly agreed that the material would remain in the hands of the Reichswehr as long as this eventuality did not arise. Amongst the mixed parcels, there were notably seventeen guns of all calibres.” [34]

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