November 9
Then the column arrives at the narrow Residenzstrasse. At the other end of the street, a large group of police wait. Hitler is in the front with his left arm linked with the right arm of Scheubner-Richter. Graf shouts to the police to inform them that Ludendorff is present. Then a shot rings out. No one is sure which side fires the first shot. Scheubner-Richter is one of the first to be hit. Mortally wounded and with his arm linked with Hitler, Hitler goes down too. The fall dislocates Hitler's shoulder. The shooting lasts approximately sixty seconds. Ludendorff keeps walking. As everyone else falls to the ground or seeks cover, Ludendorff defiantly marches straight ahead. He and his adjutant, Major Streck, march right through the line of police. He is very angry that no one had followed him and is soon arrested by the police. Goering had been wounded in the groin. After some initial first aid by two helpful Jewish women, he is spirited off and smuggled into Austria. He will remain in exile for years, fighting a recurring infection from the wounds of this day and beginning the cycle of heroin addiction that would plague his life. Hess also flees to Austria. Roehm surrenders. Hitler, though not really wounded, is one of the first to leave, spirited off by his compatriots. Taken to the home of the Hanfstaengls, he is hysterical and depressed, contemplating suicide. Two days later, Hitler is arrested. According to different reports, between fourteen and sixteen Nazis and three policemen die during the Putsch. Note: This item erroneously appeared in yesterdays post. The item that should have been there instead of this one, an item dealing with the 'Beer Hall' aspect of the Putsch, will be forthcoming. Sorry for the confusion.
1717 The Grand Lodge of London holds the first divine service of Quatuor Coronati since making its existence public on June 24. Note: Maintaining a sense of detached agnosticism, this chronicler is neither a believer nor an opponent of the myriad of conspiracy theories touched upon on this pivotal day. Just the facts as I can sort them out.
1800 Birth: Asa Mahan, American educator and Congregational clergyman. President of Oberlin College in Ohio from 1835 - 1850, Mahan will be instrumental in establishing interracial college enrollment and in the granting of college degrees to women.
1812 One of the worst winters on record begins. The adverse weather will later be blamed for Napoleon's defeat in Russia. His troops endure icy temperatures for 27 days.
1825 Birth: Ambrose P. Hill, Lieutenant General (Commander 3rd Corps, ANV).
1836 Birth: Christian business traveler Samuel Hill. In 1899 Hill, John Nicholson and WJ Knights will CO-found the Gideons, a Christian organization that ministers through distribution of the Scriptures. To date, the Gideons have placed over 12 million bibles and 100 million New Testaments.
1837 British philanthropist Moses Montefiore, 52, becomes the first Jew to be knighted in England. Montefiore is a banking executive who has devoted his life to the political and civil emancipation of English Jews.
1841 Birth: Edward VII, eldest son of Queen Victoria. He will become King of Great Britain after his mother's death in January 1901.
1848 The first US Post Office in California opens in San Francisco at Clay and Pike streets. At the time there are only about 15,000 European settlers living in the state.
1850 Birth: Lewis Lewin, in Germany, toxicologist, father of psychopharmacology.
1886 Quatuor Coronati Lodge No. 2076 celebrates the feast day of Quatuor Coronati for the first time since its founding.
1872 A fire destroys nearly 1,000 buildings in Boston.
1900 Russia completes its occupation of Manchuria.
1903 Birth: Gregory Pincus, inventor (birth control pill).
1906 President Theodore Roosevelt leaves Washington, DC, for a 17-day trip to Panama and Puerto Rico, becoming the first president to make an official visit outside of the United States.
1911 George Claude of Paris, France applies for a patent on neon advertising signs. His handiwork for advertisers appeared at various times on the Eiffel Tower.
1914 WW1: Dispatch Runner Lance Corporal Adolf Hitler is transferred to Regimental HQ, 16 Bavarian Infantry Regiment. (Maser)
1915 Birth: Sargent Shriver, Democratic VP candidate (1972), directed Peace Corp.
1918 Volkishness: In the evening, Thule Grandmaster Sebottendorff, delivers an oration to the Thule Society in Munich, stating: " Yesterday we experienced the collapse of everything which was familiar, dear and valuable to us. In the place of our princes of Germanic blood rules our deadly enemy: Judah. What will come of this chaos, we do not know yet. But we can guess. A time will come of struggle, the most bitter need, a time of danger... As long as I hold the iron hammer (a reference to his Master's hammer), I am determined to pledge the Thule to this struggle. Our Order is a Germanic Order, loyalty is also Germanic. Our god is Walvater, his rune is the Ar-rune. And the trinity: Wotan, Wili, We is the unity of the trinity. The Ar-rune signifies "Aryan," primal fire, the sun and the eagle. And the eagle is the symbol of the "Aryans." In order to depict the eagle's capacity for self immolation by fire, it is colored red. From today on our new symbol is the red eagle, which warns us that we must die in order to live." Sebottendorff continues by exhorting the Thule members to fight "until the swastika rises victoriously out of the icy darkness" and closes his speech with a racist-theosophical poem by Philipp Stauff. (Roots)
1918 Birth: Spiro Theodore Agnew, 39th vice president (1973-77) - to Richard Nixon. Will resign in disgrace.
1924 Birth: Robert Frank, photographer.
1925 The SS is founded. (Maser)
1929 IG Farben and Standard Oil sign a cartel agreement that has two objectives: (1) The cartel agreement granted Standard Oil one-half of all rights to the hydrogenation process (producing gasoline from coal, developed by Farben) in all countries except Germany. (2) Standard and Farben agreed "never to compete with each other in the fields of chemistry and petroleum products. In the future, if Standard Oil wished to enter the broad field of industrial chemicals or drugs, it would do so only as a partner of Farben. Farben in turn, agreed never to enter the field of petroleum except as a joint venture with Standard." (Griffin)
1930 Weimar: The Gauleiter (NSDAP regional party leader) of the state of Hesse seeks permission to lay wreaths on this date at the graves of German soldiers killed in WWI and buried in Catholic cemeteries. His request is denied by the Church on the ground that political parties whose ultimate outlook on life conflicts with Church doctrine cannot be allowed to hold such ceremonies on Catholic soil. (Lewy)
1932 Leon Nicole, leader of the Bolsheviks in Switzerland, and his assistant, a Russian Jew named Dicker, instigate an uprising that results in the deaths of 13 people. More than a hundred are injured.
1932 Death: Nadezhda Alliluyeva, Stalin's second wife. Officially ruled as peritonitis resulting from a burst appendix; various other theories are that the cause is suicide, or murder on the orders of Stalin, or that she is killed by Stalin himself.
1935 Japanese troops invade Shanghai, China.
1938 Hitler authorizes Goering to deal with all Jewish political affairs. Hitler tells Goering that he is interested in sending German Jews to Madagascar and that he will make an initiative to the Western powers. (Architect)
1938 Kristallnacht: Nov 9-10 Ernst vom Rath dies and a massive pogrom, known now as Kristallnacht (the night of glass) is launched against the Jews of Germany. 191 synagogues are set on fire and 76 others are completely destroyed, along with hundreds of Jewish shops and schools. 91 Jews are killed during the night of November 9th alone and 35,000 male Jews are arrested, herded into concentration camps and their property seized. (Atlas)
1942 WW2: Hitler attends Blutzeuge (Day of National Memory) ceremonies in Munich.
1943 WW2: The 20th anniversary of the Munich Putsch. Hitler gives a speech at the Lowenbraukeller in Munich, which is recorded for a later radio broadcast. During the speech Hitler announces that the German people have inflicted such suffering and destruction on the peoples of Europe that they can expect no mercy in case of defeat. If Germany is defeated, he, Adolf Hitler, will not shed a single tear, even if all the cities of Germany are laid waste, and every German man, woman and child put to the sword. The German people will only have themselves to blame. The censors delete this outburst, but a Turkish press official is there, who later passes it on to British intelligence. (Architect)
1949 The East German Parliament in Berlin unanimously passes a law restoring full citizenship rights to ex-Nazis and army officers. From now on any Russian Zone Nazi - unless he has been convicted of war crimes - can vote, hold public office, and pursue almost any profession. East German Deputy Premier Walter Ulbricht explaining the civil rights law for Nazis and militarists, says that "antifascist forces were sufficiently consolidated," and besides, "many have repented." (International Herald Tribune, Nov. 10, 1949, Nov. 10 1999.)
1952 Death: Chaim Weizmann, former head of the international Zionist movement and the first president of the newly formed state of Israel dies in Rehovot, Israel. (See Blutzeuge)
1953 Death: Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, in New York aged 39, after falling into an alcoholic coma after drinking 18 whiskies.
1962 The Republic of China Army test-fires its homemade T-2 rocket.
1962 The United States completes an emergency airlift of arms and ammunition to India during India's border war with Communist China.
1967 NASA launches the unmanned Apollo 4 into orbit with the first successful test of a Saturn V rocket.
1970 Death: General Charles De Gaullem, at age 79. Ge Gaulle for many years had been aware of ODESSA and Neo-Nazi activity within the CIA and had his agents keeping him informed. The coincidence of his death should, according to some, not be overlooked. (See Blutzeuge)
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1989 The fifth plenary meeting of the Chinese Communist Party's 13th Central Committee concludes. Deng Xiaoping resigns from the post of chairman of the party's Central Military Commission. Jiang Zemin succeeds Deng to take up the post.
1999 Four founders of the outlawed "China Democracy Party" are sentenced to five to 11 years in prison by the Hangzhou Intermediate People's Court on charges of "subverting state power."
1999 Reinhard meets briefly with Heinz C. Prechter at the Hotel Adlon in Berlin. Prechter, who introduces himself as Chairman of the Committee to Elect George W. Bush, Jr., is also Chairman and CEO of ASC INCORPORATED of Southgate, MI., as well as a number of other corporations both in Europe and America. Some describe Prechter as being a "major figure" in "German-American cooperation." Earlier in 1999, he was the 1999 recipient of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor.
1999 Death: John (Jack) D. Le Vien, filmmaker and executive producer of the Academy Award (1963) winning documentary "BLACK FOX, the Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler," at a hospital in London, where he had lived for the past thirty years. He was 81. Much of his work evolved from his friendships with Churchill and the Duke of Windsor. He was born in New York in 1918 and during WW2 was a high ranking press aide to General Eisenhower. Le Vien was chief press officer with the Allied Task Force invading Algeria, and in Tunisia, organized an official press camp. He did the same in Italy, France, and Germany. (New York Times, Nov. 22, 1999))
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