Chapter 41 Chapter 6 Beer Hall Uprising (7)

It was a sleepless night of anxiety at Uffyin.Hanf Stangl did not return home, and Hitler, who wrapped his master's English-style travel blanket tightly around him to relieve his pain, could not sleep.Hitler called Helena Hanfstagel and told her that he had sent paramedics back to Munich to find Bechstein, hoping to get his car to take him to Austria.Dr. Schultz was also in town.In order to ensure that Hitler's arm is cured, he will bring back the careful assistant of his colleague, the famous doctor Sahlbruch. The next morning, time seemed to be endless, and even the maids were too nervous to eat. Only Egon, who was less than three years old, was the same as usual.Egon was kept under strict watch lest he shout over the wall that Uncle Adolf was here.Just before noon, Dr. Schulz brought in Sahlbruch's assistant.Together they examined Hitler's shoulder and found it to be in good condition, only changing the bandage.Hitler instructed Schulz to inform Drexler to represent him during his absence.He also asked Schulz to pass the matter on to Hess and others and to Ludendorff—if he was still alive.

After the two doctors left, Hitler repeatedly told his mistress that her husband was safe.Then he fidgeted, thinking about his comrades all the time, not knowing how they were doing.If he had slept a little that night, the deafening ringing of the bells in the neighboring church had broken his spirits the next morning.It was the 11th, Sunday.Hitler didn't show up until lunchtime.He was unable to dress because of the splint, except for a dark blue jacquard bath towel from Hanfsteinl.A smile crept across his sallow face.He really felt like a fake Roman senator.He also told Helena how his father laughed at him as "the kid in the office coat."

In the afternoon, Hitler was even more restless, pacing back and forth in the living room.Will Bechstein's car come?He was getting more and more distraught.Why not come?In a matter of hours, if not minutes, the police could have tracked Oufyin down.At dusk, he told Helena to draw down the blinds and draw the curtains.After that, he paced back and forth in the room. Just after five, the phone rang—it was from Helena's mother-in-law, who lived in a neighboring villa.When Mrs. Hanfstangel said on the phone that the police were searching her house, an officer suddenly and politely stopped her from speaking.Then he spoke directly to Helena: he would take his men to her villa immediately.

She went upstairs slowly.Still in his oversized bathrobe, Hitler stood in the corridor, hoping for good news.She whispered to him that the police were coming soon. "In a split second he panicked and cried out, 'Now it's all over—it's useless to go on!'" He drew a pistol from a cabinet. "Where are you going?" Helena said.She grabbed his hand and snatched the pistol away without much effort. "How can you get discouraged when you get setbacks?" she reprimanded him. "Think about the people who follow you, they believe in you, trust you. Now, if you abandon them, they will lose all trust in you." She said calmly, "How can you leave you to make them believe in you People with the idea of ​​saving the country—suicide?" He sat down together on the chair and buried his head in his hands.She sneaked out to hide the pistol.In the next room, she first saw a big flour box, and plunged her pistol into the white flour.She hurried back to the room and found Hitler still sitting there with his head sullen.

She said to him, what should the party do when he is in prison?You should write out the instructions and give them to your closest colleagues.He only needs to sign some blank papers, which she will fill out later, and then she will pass them on to his lawyer.Hitler thanked her for reminding him of his responsibility and dictated the instructions.First, he asked Oman to get the business dealings and party finances in order; Rosenberg to "take care" of the party newspaper and - contrary to the previous instructions to Dr. Schulz - "the movement will be led by you ".Hanfstangel wanted to help run the Volk-Observer well through foreign relations.Ethiopia and other leaders continued to play politics.After Hitler signed the instructions, Helena hid the documents in the flour box.

After a while, the car sounded.Then there was a brief shout and—most startlingly—the barking of a police dog.After a while, there was a knock on the door.It was a young police lieutenant and two other officers.The lieutenant introduced himself politely and asked apologetically if he could search her house.Helena led the officer upstairs and opened the guest room door.Hitler stood motionless indoors in his pajamas and towel.Hitler's sudden appearance shocked the police officers so much that they dared not approach him.She beckoned them to come.After everyone entered the room, Hitler not only completely recovered his composure, "he also condemned the government and its officials. He was eloquent and stern." Hitler, who had been sluggish just now, had completely returned to normal at this time.He stopped suddenly and told the lieutenant not to waste any more time.He shook hands with the lieutenant and said he was ready to go on the road with him.

It was a cold day and he had no coat.He rejected Hanf Stangl's overcoat and only added his military uniform over a blue bath towel.The lieutenant allowed him to pin the "Iron Cross" on his uniform.Just as the group was walking down the stairs, Egon skipped into the hall. "What are you rascals doing with Uncle Adolf?" he asked.Hitler was deeply moved, patted the child's face, shook hands with Helena and the maids without saying a word, turned and strode out.Helena looked out the window and saw the police car driving towards the district capital, Weilhein.She took one last look at him: he was pale.

He arrived there around 9:45 p.m. and was formally summoned at the district office.He was then rushed to Landsberg Prison, about 40 miles west of Munich.At this time, it was raining torrentially, and strong winds were blowing; the combination of wind and rain caused the vehicle body to shake.Along the way, the road was winding and winding, and there was no one there.Hitler was depressed and frowning.Apart from asking how Ludendorff was doing (at this time, Ludendorff had been released. He assured the authorities that he was no more than a bystander), he said nothing more. In Landsberg Prison, the warden is already preparing to take measures to prevent insurgents from coming to rob the prison.However, when the iron gate full of iron nails received Hitler inside, the guards who came to stand guard had not yet arrived.He was held in cell number 7 in the fort area.This is the only cell with a "sitting room", which can accommodate only one sentinel.The cell's predecessor, Eisner's murderer Akro Valli, had just been moved to another cell.

Franz Helmrich, who guarded Hitler, often helped him undress. "He didn't eat or drink, just lay down on the bed. Locked him up and I was sent out." In a lonely little bed in North Germany, Hitler lived blind until hallucinations restored his sight; here, in Nande, with him are empty walls and ceilings.From North Germany to South Germany, this is exactly one lap. When the author of the book "The Third Reich" was recently published, Moller van den Broucke said after hearing the news of the uprising: "There are many things to say about Hitler. However, people can say this: He is Fanaticism for Germany... What Hitler destroyed was his proletarian primitiveness. He did not understand how to lay an intellectual foundation for his National Socialism. He was the embodiment of fanaticism, with no sense of reconciliation or concept."

People have started using the past tense when talking about Hitler.It is generally believed that he can no longer be considered a political force in Germany.His dice had been thrown, and he had lost everything. "The history of our country has gone astray," writes Moller, "and nothing has succeeded for us on earth. Not yesterday; not today. As a result, we recall that nothing has succeeded in a generation...  ...our cause, dead from birth...something seemed wrong. We tried to correct it, but found it all shattered...some sort of sinister spell hangs over the empire." In Munich, however, an order is being issued to the Nazis in defiance of the authorities: "The first phase of the national revolution is over. It has purified the 'air' as originally intended. Our beloved Führer Adolf Hitler has once again shed blood for Germany .Through the blood of Hitler and the steel of traitors against my Munich comrades, my patriotic 'fighting alliance', for good or ill, has united. The second phase of the national revolution has begun."

As a young man, Hitler suffered two major blows: being rejected from the Vienna Art School and the death of his mother.Later, he experienced two major crises: he was gassed and lay down on the battlefield to surrender to Germany, and he suffered a disaster in front of the Commander's Palace.After the final blow, only a man of extraordinary will can make a comeback, learn the lessons of his own mistakes, and go back on the path he was destined to follow.In the past few months, Hitler as drummer has given way to Hitler as Führer.