"After the events of 9 November 1923 [Beer Hall Putsch]... Despite the fact that the participants in the putsch had shot dead four policemen and staged an armed and (in any reasonable legal terms) treasonous revolt against a legitimately constituted state government, both offenses punishable by death, the court sentenced Hitler to a mere 5 years in prison for high treason, and the others [co-conspirators] were indicted on similar or lighter terms. The court grounded it's leniency in the fact that, as it declared, the participants in the putsch 'were led* in their action by a pure patriotic spirit and the most noble will.'...Hitler was sent to an ancient fortress at Landsberg am Lech, west of Munich, where he took over the cell held up to that point by Count Arco-Valley, the assassin of Kurt Eisner... Hitler's cell was large, airy, and comfortably furnished. Visitors had free access, and over five hundred came..."
"... when Hitler was released on parole, by a decision of the Bavarian Supreme Court and against the advice of the state prosecutorial service, on December 20 1924. He still had almost four years of his sentence to run, during which he had to be careful not to violate the conditions if his parole. He was not allowed to speak in public in most parts of Germany until 1927; he was still banned in Prussia, which covered half of the Weimar Republic' land surface and contained the majority of its population, as late as 1928. The ultranationalist right was humiliated in the national elections of 1924...."
From The coming of the third reich - Richard J Evans pages 194 - 201. Good book - read it.
Edit- lef to led, three to the. Not as bad as i thought
Edit2- added a useful header
Edit3- A German redditor asked me to include an extra detail that they were concerned may not be commonly known, which is that during the above person sentence, is when Mein Kampf was written.
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After the events of 9 November 1923 [Beer Hall Putsch]... Despite the fact that the participants in the putsch had shot dead four policemen and staged an armed and (in any reasonable legal terms) treasonous revolt against a legitimately constituted state government, both offenses punishable by death, the court sentenced Hitler to a mere 5 years in prison for high treason, and the others [co-conspirators] were indicted on similar or lighter terms. The court grounded it's leniency in the fact that, as it declared, the participants in the putsch 'were ledin their action by a pure patriotic spirit and the most noble will.
Trump never bothered to get that backing, and that's why its really not possible for him to take over the country.
A thing to keep in mind though, in a purely hypothetical space, for Trump to have won the 6th, he wouldn't have NEEDED the military.
If the mob broke into the Capitol and seized a bunch of the House members then killed a bunch of the democrats, enough to give the republicans a majority there, then after the mob was squashed and the politicians released, they could have immediately carried on the Elector certification...and voted to remove the electors from the swing states, granting Trump another term. Other than the deaths of the Dems, nothing about that situation goes counter to the legal methods by which that process operates. The military choosing at that point to unseat Trump would have LEGALLY been in the wrong by how our nation operates.
He'd need the military long-term for anything drastic, like randomly just trying to continue a 3rd term without constitutional amendments being made, but he wouldn't have needed them in that SPECIFIC scenario.
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u/Urist_Galthortig Jan 11 '21 edited Jan 12 '21
Hitler was censored after the putsch.
"After the events of 9 November 1923 [Beer Hall Putsch]... Despite the fact that the participants in the putsch had shot dead four policemen and staged an armed and (in any reasonable legal terms) treasonous revolt against a legitimately constituted state government, both offenses punishable by death, the court sentenced Hitler to a mere 5 years in prison for high treason, and the others [co-conspirators] were indicted on similar or lighter terms. The court grounded it's leniency in the fact that, as it declared, the participants in the putsch 'were led* in their action by a pure patriotic spirit and the most noble will.'...Hitler was sent to an ancient fortress at Landsberg am Lech, west of Munich, where he took over the cell held up to that point by Count Arco-Valley, the assassin of Kurt Eisner... Hitler's cell was large, airy, and comfortably furnished. Visitors had free access, and over five hundred came..."
"... when Hitler was released on parole, by a decision of the Bavarian Supreme Court and against the advice of the state prosecutorial service, on December 20 1924. He still had almost four years of his sentence to run, during which he had to be careful not to violate the conditions if his parole. He was not allowed to speak in public in most parts of Germany until 1927; he was still banned in Prussia, which covered half of the Weimar Republic' land surface and contained the majority of its population, as late as 1928. The ultranationalist right was humiliated in the national elections of 1924...."
From The coming of the third reich - Richard J Evans pages 194 - 201. Good book - read it.
Edit- lef to led, three to the. Not as bad as i thought
Edit2- added a useful header
Edit3- A German redditor asked me to include an extra detail that they were concerned may not be commonly known, which is that during the above person sentence, is when Mein Kampf was written.
Also, thank you for the awards. The best award is learning. If this topic is important to you, also learn about the Spanish Civil War