However, although the Ruhr crisis came to an end with both sides taking a step back under international adjustment, the hyperinflation in Germany continued, and the entire economic situation was almost out of control. Entering November, the value of the mark against the dollar fell to a staggering 40 billion to 1, and the value of the German currency entered a new era measured in units of weight; The whole country is in dire straits, and the only thing that is not lacking is "money". When money began to be burned in the fireplaces of the houses, an Austrian corporal thought that the time had come for him to seize power.

On November 8, 1923, an organization called the "National Socialist Workers' Party of Germany" rallied its supporters to carry out an armed coup d'état in Munich, the capital of Bavaria in southern Germany: they first arrested several high-ranking Bavarian dignitaries who were rallying at the H-B Hofbräuhaus, and then marched to the government buildings and key departments in central Munich the next day, intending to follow Mussolini's "march on Rome" operation a year earlier, and seize control of Bavaria and thus the whole of Germany.

However, Germany's situation is very different from that of Italy. Although Germany suffered far more intensely after the war than Italy, the public already complained about the Weimar group in power. But Germany under Weimar still had such a behemoth as the army, and its status and power even surpassed that of the current government, which had been congenitally deficient since its birth. From the time of Prussia, the Junkers were an important force in the German-speaking world; After the brutal Four Years' War, the Army Hub, consisting of Hindenburg and Ludendorff, became the de facto rulers of Germany, and the power exercised by the two was far beyond that of their predecessors, even Frederick the Great in the Seven Years' War!

Against this backdrop, although the Social Democrats and Liberals eventually took over the government after the November Revolution, they could only curry favor with the Army, which claimed to be the patron saint of Germany. With the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, the position of the German Army, which had been brutally devastated in the country, became even more transcendent: because the German people hated the treaty that had brought them so much suffering, and they also hated the democratic government that had surrendered to the Entente, and the right-wing forces at home hated the Weimar Republic, and the Karp coup d'état launched in 1920 almost scared the top of the republic. In the face of this situation, the republic can only rely on the strength of the army to maintain its rule, which also further elevates the status of the army.

Today, the German Army is a state within a state that does not obey any aspect under the deformed system of Weimar; The monocle-weared, waist-thin army commander Sickert had a potential that was not inferior to that of his predecessors in the Hing-Lu, and it was easy for him and his army to destroy any power in Germany. The reason why the army still supports the Weimar government is purely out of the desire to maintain national stability and avoid civil war; If those guys in the country are allowed to make trouble, not only will the parliaments of the states except Prussia become far away from the center and difficult to control, but the whole country will also be in chaos. Therefore, until a better alternative is available, the Army will not oppose a democratic government that is ideologically in conflict with them.

Without the support of the Army, Hitler's coup d'état was a failure. Under the repression of the well-trained army, which was called the police, the National Socialists, who were purely a rabble, scattered like birds and beasts after seeing blood; Two days later, most of the coup masterminds, including the party's leader, were arrested, and the few that slipped through the net fled to the country in a hurry.

As a time-traveler who is familiar with history, Fang Yan learned from the conversations of the people around him who made such a big news that shocked the whole country. The man who would shake the world in the future is now being held in the cold bars of the Munich Battery Prison, constantly under the fierce questioning of the police. Prior to this, Fang Yan had also had the idea of sending charcoal in the snow when the "Führer" was in distress to strengthen his intimacy with himself, but first, his family's base was far away in Hamburg, northern Germany, and second, his current studies had also entered the most critical stage, so it was obviously not suitable to immediately go to Munich to make this political investment.

Because of these considerations, Fang Yan suppressed the idea of early contact with Hitler. In any case, he still has a long way to go on the road to power, and he still has plenty of opportunities to connect with the future leader of Germany. If nothing else, as long as you can vigorously fund the Nationalist elections during the economic crisis, you will still be able to become a prominent player in the Nationalist Party in a few years' time.

What happened after that was the same as Fang Yan's impression. The shrewd and brilliant Hitler quickly emerged from the shadow of a failed coup d'état and was keenly aware that the ensuing trial was a great opportunity to spread his reputation from Bavaria to all of Germany. In fact, in addition to the major German newspapers, newspapers from all over the world sent journalists to Munich to cover the trial. By the end of the 24-day trial, Hitler had turned defeat into victory, and he had impressed the German people with his eloquence and nationalist fervor, which led to the first pages of newspapers around the world to carry his name.

In the end, Hitler staged an armed coup d'état, which would have been a major crime of annihilation in the Eastern Celestial Empire, and was sentenced to five years in prison by the Munich District Court, and was released on bail after six months of service. Even so, many jury judges felt that the justice's sentence was excessive. The main reason for such a slight verdict, in addition to the fact that the momentum and reasoning of the court were all taken away by Hitler's impassioned words, was that the strange judicial logic that had existed since the establishment of the Weimar government was at work.

In Germany in the twenties, it was a strange phenomenon that if the perpetrator of the crime was one of those right-wingers who wanted to overthrow the republic, he would either be acquitted or punished very lightly, like Hitler's accomplice Ludendorff. After the 1920 coup d'état in Karp, the government prosecuted 705 people for treason, only one of them, the Berlin police chief, was sentenced to five years of "honorable imprisonment". When the Prussian State ordered that the annuity not be paid to him, the Supreme Court also ordered that it should be paid as usual. Even if the assassin is an assassin, as long as the murderer is a right-winger and the victim is a democrat, he will receive leniency from the court.

On the other hand, hundreds of German liberals were sentenced to long prison terms for treason, because they constantly exposed in the newspapers and speeches the Army's violation of the Treaty of Versailles and its private petty practices. Even Albert, the first president of the Republic, was brought to trial and sentenced to three months' imprisonment in his capacity as incumbent president for his participation in the anti-war strike and the forced abdication of the Kaiser in November 1918. The Weimar Republic not only failed to win the support of the rightists led by the Army, but instead chilled the Socialists and democrats who had supported them, and shook the foundation of their own rule.

Hitler, who staged the coup d'état, undoubtedly received the most lenient treatment under this deformed legal system. During his imprisonment, he was treated like a VIP, and was even allowed to take his secretary with him every morning to walk on the open lawn. Seeing that his loyal followers were still in the limelight at home, Hess chose to return to China and surrendered, and began to help Hitler sort out a book dictated by him while in prison.

During this time in prison, Hitler also seriously summed up the lessons of his too young, too simple coup d'état. Hitler finally concluded that, because of the presence of the Army, any attempt to overthrow the Republic by violent means would be unworkable; There is only one path left for his future political career, and that is to bury the democratic regime in peaceful elections and win the support of the Army in the process. He was glad that the National Socialist Party did not directly have a grudge against the Army in this coup, and it was the veterans' green police who shot and suppressed them; His nationalist ideology and commitment to tearing up the Treaty of Versailles were in line with the Army's ultimate goal, which was more acceptable to the Army than the weak Weimar government. As long as he shows the potential to truly rule the country, the Army's choice will inevitably favor him, and his long-cherished political aspirations will be realized.

However, for Fang Yan, the coup d'état launched by the young Hitler and the entire trial process that followed were just a concoction in his daily intense and fulfilling life. In addition to the intense preparations for the Milvik Naval Academy and the passing of letters with Sylvia Hongyan, who is thousands of miles away, he is most concerned about the expansion of his family's power and the multi-party cooperation with the Italians. What he wanted was not only a subsystem of ship power that Italy did not lend to much more than France, but also the oil buried in the Gobi sands of Libya: in a sense, the acquisition of these black viscous liquids was more important than the innovation of technical equipment.

Soon, Rudolph, who has always focused on the development of his family in China, found himself with a great opportunity to eat a lot of money.

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