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35.
  Ehard immediately afterward wrote a detailed reconstruction of the entire conversation. Bayerisches Hauptstaatsarchiv, Nachlass Ehard (Ehard Papers), no. 94;
Hitler-Prozess
(trial transcript), appendix 5, part 1, 299–307.
36.
  Nachlass Ehard (Ehard Papers), 710.
37.
  
Hitler-Prozess
(trial transcript), 301.
38.
  Otto Gritschneder,
Bewährungsfrist für den Terroristen Adolf H.: Der Hitler-Putsch und die bayerische Justiz
(Munich: C. H. Beck, 1990), 42.
39.
  The senders called them
Liebesgaben.
40.
  Plöckinger,
Geschichte,
33, footnote to Paula Schlier,
Petras Aufzeichnungen,
(Innsbruck: Brenner-Verlag, 1926), 136.
41.
  Hemmrich, “Adolf Hitler,” 16.
42.
  Facsimile of letter in Toland,
Adolf Hitler,
224–25.
43.
  Hess,
Briefe,
332.
44.
  Hemmrich, “Adolf Hitler,” 12.
45.
  Lurker,
Hitler hinter,
8. Details on Wrede in Jablonsky,
Dissolution,
181.
46.
  Lurker,
Hitler hinter,
8.
47.
  Hemmrich, “Adolf Hitler,” 12.
48.
  Prison files in Staatsarchiv München, JVA 12417.
49.
  Plöckinger,
Geschichte,
14–15.
50.
  Gordon,
Hitler and the Beer Hall Putsch,
474.
51.
  Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietrich_Eckart.
52.
  Jäckel und Kuhn,
Hitler: Sämtliche Aufzeichnungen,
1038.
53.
  Hemmrich, “Adolf Hitler,” 25.
54.
  Hemmrich, “Adolf Hitler,” 22–23.
55.
  
Hitler-Prozess
(trial transcript), 308.
56.
  Kubizek,
The Young Hitler,
179–80.
57.
  Kubizek,
The Young Hitler,
179–80.
58.
  Alan E. Steinweis,
Studying the Jew: Scholarly Antisemitism in Nazi Germany
(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006), 25.
59.
  Frank,
Im Angesicht,
46.
60.
  Timothy W. Ryback,
Hitler’s Private Library: The Books that Shaped His Life
(New York: Knopf, 2008), frontispiece.
61.
  Hamann,
Hitler’s Vienna,
74–75.
62.
  Kellerhoff,
Mein Kampf,
67.
63.
  Hitler,
Mein Kampf,
36–38.
64.
  Frank,
Im Angesicht,
47.
65.
  Plöckinger,
Geschichte,
20. The memorandum has never been found, but it was strongly referenced during Hitler’s trial.
66.
  Plöckinger,
Geschichte,
21.

Chapter 7. A Trial for Treason

1.
  Gritschneder,
Der Hitler-Prozess und sein Richter Georg Neithardt,
13.
2.
  Before becoming the Reichswehr’s Infantry School, the building had been the training academy for the old Bavarian Army. Over its entrance were inscribed the words, “War School” (
Kriegsschule
). See photo, Gritschneder,
Der Hitler-Prozess,
124.
3.
  Thomas R. Ybarra, “Lossow Admits Fooling Plotters,”
New York Times,
March 11, 1924.
4.
  “Ludendorff Cool as Trial Begins,”
New York Times,
February 27, 1924.
5.
  
Münchener Zeitung,
February 28, 1924.
6.
  Freniere,
The Hitler Trial,
xxix.
7.
  Gordon,
Hitler and the Beer Hall Putsch,
457.
8.
  Hanfstaengl,
Hitler,
113.
9.
  
Süddeutsche Zeitung,
February 26, 1924.
10.
  
Münchener Post,
February 29, 1924.
11.
  “Der vierte Tag des Hitler-Prozesses,”
Süddeutsche Zeitung,
February 30 [marked on clipping but must mean February 29], 1924.
12.
  Dr. Carl Misch,
Vossische Zeitung,
February 26, 1924.
13.
  “Der vierte Tag des Hitler-Prozesses,”
Süddeutsche Zeitung,
February 30 [marked on clipping but must mean 29], 1924.
14.
  
Hitler-Prozess
(trial transcript), illustration 1, sketch 12a.
15.
  Dr. Carl Misch, “Gerichtstag,”
Vossische Zeitung,
February 26, 1924.
16.
  
Münchener Zeitung,
February 29, 1924.
17.
  “Die Sitzung ist eröffnet,”
Vossische Zeitung,
February 26, 1924.
18.
  
Neues Münchener Tagblatt,
March 12, 1924.
19.
  Dr. Carl Misch, “Gerichtstag,”
Vossische Zeitung,
February 26, 1924.
20.
  Deuerlein,
Aufstieg,
205.
21.
  Gritschneder,
Bewährungsfrist,
63.
22.
  Gritschneder,
Der Hitler-Prozess,
54.
23.
  
Hitler-Prozess
(trial transcript), 17.
24.
  Gritschneder,
Der Hitler-Prozess,
43.
25.
  
Hitler-Prozess
(trial transcript), 1223.
26.
  Gritschneder,
Der Hitler-Prozess,
65.
27.
  The
London Times
says “nearly four hours” in “Munich Treason Trial,”
London Times,
February 27, 1924. So does the
Vossische Zeitung
in “Zweiter Tag im Hitler-Prozess,” February 28, 1924. Likewise the record of a meeting of the Bavaria Council of Ministers on March 4 in Deuerlein,
Aufstieg,
215–16. However, the trial transcript suggests it lasted about three hours.
28.
  “Es sei unmöglich den Redestrom Hitlers zu hemmen.” Comment by Gürtner in cabinet meeting. Deuerlein,
Aufstieg,
16.
29.
  Kershaw,
Hitler: 1889–1936,
23–54.
30.
  
Hitler-Prozess
(trial transcript), 20. Hitler would later use almost exactly the same opener in
Mein Kampf.
31.
  Deuerlein,
Hitler,
71.
32.
  
Berliner Tageblatt,
Nr. 97, Abend-Ausgabe, February 26, 1924.
33.
  This and all other quotes from Hitler’s opening speech come from
Hitler-Prozess
(trial transcript), 20–65.
34.
  Freniere,
Hitler Trial,
70.
35.
  “Hitlers Verteidgungsrede,”
Frankfurter Zeitung,
February 26, 1924.
36.
  “En allemagne, Le procès Hitler-Ludendorff,”
Le Temps,
March 1, 1924.
37.
  Gritschneder,
Der Hitler-Prozess,
56–57.
38.
  “Das neue Mekka,”
Vossische Zeitung,
February 27, 1924.
39.
  Deuerlein,
Aufstieg,
205.

Chapter 8. The Judgment of History

1.
  
Hitler-Prozess
(trial transcript), 161.
2.
  “Public Excluded at Munich,”
London Times,
February 29, 1924.
3.
  
Hitler-Prozess
(trial transcript), 195.
4.
  
Hitler-Prozess
(trial transcript), part 1, 39.
5.
  
Hitler-Prozess
(trial transcript), 194–200.
6.
  “Münchner Eindrücke—Aus dem Gerichtssaal von unserem besonderen Vertreter,”
Pressebüro Krauss,
March 23, 1924.
7.
  “Munich Trial: General Ludendorff’s Story,”
London Times,
March 1, 1924.
8.
  
Hitler-Prozess
(trial transcript), 252–85.
9.
  
Hitler-Prozess
(trial transcript), 277–78.
10.
  Frank,
Im Angesicht,
51.
11.
  T. R. Ybarra, “Ludendorff’s Talk at Treason Trial Dismays His Party,”
New York Times,
March 2, 1924.
12.
  
Hitler-Prozess
(trial transcript), 203–5.
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