Showing posts with label Ingolstadt. Show all posts. More Nazi Sites in Oberbayern. The popular belief had been that Hitler and its owner, Carl Eduard Matheis, had been regimental comrades during the Great War although after a complete review of the 14th Infantry Division's archives, shows Matheis had not been; in fact, very few soldiers from the Ingolstadt region were. Thus, even after the so-called seizure of power the Nazis only managed in the parliamentary election 1, votes in the March 5, national election compared to the Bavarian People's Party's 2, The League of German Girls, the auxiliary police and the state police had served as a sort of honour guard as Hitler arrived after a meeting in Leipzig.
Pfahlstasse In December Hitler was awarded the honorary citizenship of the city. Hitler thanked the town council on December 12 and formally accepted it.
This Hitler Jugend haus, completed in , is still a Youth Hostel. The inauguration of the extension was held April 16, Such is the build-up of suburbia around the site that a corresponding photograph couldn't be taken. The cathedral in and today. It was at the cathedral on January 31, that Father Kraus publicly attacked Nazi anti-church policy, bringing on the crisis of April and May when both party and state tried to drive Kraus out of town.
When the news spread of Kraus's impending ouster, the cathedral was packed with a reported 5, of the faithful, or two-thirds of the town. Bishop Racklwent to the pulpit and noted the unfortunate reason why so many had assembled. During his minute talk, Rackl had to stop frequently for the applause from the congregation, pleased to hear that someone was going to resist.
During that evening, 1, persons signed a petition against Kraus's removal. They did prevent the townspeople from giving the Bishop a street ovation. Party units arrested some of those showing defiance. All through the night and into the next day lines of those praying for the retention of Kraus wound through the cathedral. Edward Peterson Limits of Hitler's Power. Peterson Already in July the party announced: "7, Hitler Youth are under the fireman's helmet.
