“Attempting to replicate Mussolini’s March of Rome, The Beer Hall Putsch was not nearly as successful. As Adolf Hitler, the event’s leader proclaimed, “Either the German revolution begins tonight or we will all be dead by dawn!” It was Hitler’s unorganized thinking that lead to his own death. The rebels, listless and bored, began to march to nowhere in particular when they were struck by government soldiers. Hitler was shot dead, sources are unclear by exactly whom, and another key Putsch organizer Max Erwin von Scheubner-Richter would be wounded critically, but survive.
The following trials would gather media attention throughout Europe, but it would take a few years before the Nazi movement would reform again. Many of the key participants of the failed coup would have large roles in the future German Empire. Chief among them, of course, would be future Chancellor Alfred Rosenberg, one of the Putsch’s critical planners, and fellow ideologies Hans Frank, Hermann Göring, Rudolf Hess, Heinrich Himmler, and Julius Streicher.”
-Excerpt from
The Continent of Blood: The History of War, Authoritarianism, and Terrorism in 20th Century Europe
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“Indeed, sometimes I ponder if those events nearly three decades ago had gone differently that I would not be such a miserable predicament. May those who find out what I am about to do forgive me. - February 3, 1951”
-Excerpt from
The Diaries of Joseph Goebbels
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Vonnegut: “And furthermore, I must admit Mr. Rosenberg that your work is quite miscalculated. Jew this, Jew that. You miss the mark ludicrously. I suggest you read Kilgore Trout’s “The Protocols of the Elders of Tralfamadore”. Then I think a few things will be illuminated for you.”
Rosenberg: “*Sigh*… Mr. Vonnegut, you have done nothing in this interview but insult me. You clearly have no understanding of my ideology. I am through of your opinions! Of your desire to ignore the man behind the curtain! I will not stoop to this level! You do not come back here unless you understand The Myth of The Twentieth Century."
Vonnegut: “Oh, I understand perfectly. The true myth of the twentieth century was this idea that anything was going to work out okay for anybody. That we could get through without violence, and if we did have to use violence it would always be righteous. But Mr. Rosenberg, I am afraid I can’t even give you the doubt of following that advice and not unleashing untold death in the modern age. You aren’t even unique in that regard.”
-Excerpt from the fiction book,
Jack’s Kevorkian’s Daylight by Kurt Vonnegut, 2000
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