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#88651 12/04/02 06:22 PM
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When Hitler was able to, he staged a Putsch in Munich, hoping to get enough backing
to prevent Hindenburg from suppressing the party he was forming. I forget the immediate
results, will go look it up.I think it was not a complete success.

putsch
n.
5Ger < Swiss dial., lit., a push, blow6 a sudden political uprising or rebellion

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/GERbeer.htm


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Thanks for that link, very interesting accounts. Reading about the period, both fact and fiction - Christopher Isherwood, Len Deighton etc. - has a strange fascination. Something to do with watching the stages of a total and inevitable yet predictable disaster unfold and trying to understand the motivations and states of mind of the players that led us all into it.
I would like to find again a huge series of books - 11 volumes, each about 1000 pages I think - called The World's End Series by Upton Sinclair but I think they are out of print. I may try posting to see if anyone knows where I could find them. I read them in my late teens I think and they made a lasting impact.


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you might try eBay...




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OK, thanks. I'll give it a go. Hope there's a set in the UK, carriage cost could be prohibitive!



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