for disrupting opponents’ meetings, receiving constant fines, but does not give up his battle against the System even for a moment.
During summer 1923, Hitler begins breaking Red terror in most Bavarian cities. Regensburg, Hof, Bayreuth, Nuremberg, Fürth, Ingolstadt, Würzburg, and Schweinfurt are freed from Social Democratic and Communist terror brigades — sometimes after bloody street fights.
Hitler’s battle against the incompetent Reich government leads to sharp controversies. He prophesies the hopelessness of the government’s resistance in the Ruhr, continually attacks the senseless attempts to negotiate with France on fulfillment policy. He speaks constantly about the necessity for coming to understandings with Italy and England.
In November 1923, Adolf Hitler attempts to bring down the System. The uprising fails. Adolf Hitler is arrested.
A major trial is held in Munich in March 1924. It ends with the Führer’s technical conviction, but notes that he had strong moral justification. Hitler’s testimony before the court, and his acceptance of complete responsibility so impresses the states attorney that he recommends probation, but the judge sentences him to prison.
The National Socialist Party suffers under the absence of its Führer. Its opponents are convinced that is is destroyed, and therefore sign the criminal Dawes Plan. It begins the systematic plundering of Germany, which continues under the Young Plan. The Social Democrats and Center Party rejoice! The goal of German enslavement seems to have been achieved!
Hitler seeks in vain to get his comrades who remain at liberty to build a front against the Dawes Plan. In vain he attempts to show that the promises of the Center Party, the SPD, and the People’s Party, according to which foreign loans will restore the economy, reduce unemployment, raise wages and pay, lower taxes, rescue agriculture, are lies. In vain he states that the Dawes Plan will lead to increased misery, since the interest on the loans will cripple the economy since the loans are only intended to fulfill Germany’s financial obligations under the plan. Bankruptcies and unemployment will increase, taxes will rise, wages and salaries will be reduced, prices will continue to rise, and agriculture will be ruined by forced auctions of farms.