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steve2470

(37,457 posts)
Thu Feb 11, 2021, 06:56 PM Feb 2021

Bavarian (Germany) Supreme Court grants Hitler parole on December 19, 1924

https://famous-trials.com/hitler/2531-trial-of-adolf-hitler-a-chronology

Dec. 19, 1924 The Bavarian Supreme Court grants Hitler parole.

Dec. 20, 1924 Hitler is released from Landsberg Prison.


and

Pardoned by the Bavarian Supreme Court, he was released from jail on 20 December 1924, against the state prosecutor's objections.[123] Including time on remand, Hitler served just over one year in prison.[124]


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler#Beer_Hall_Putsch_and_Landsberg_Prison

I was not aware of this historical fact. I assume Hitler and/or his barrister/lawyer/solicitor appealed to the Bavarian Supreme Court for the early release.
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Bavarian (Germany) Supreme Court grants Hitler parole on December 19, 1924 (Original Post) steve2470 Feb 2021 OP
Letting Hitler off the hook worked out so well for the world. Irish_Dem Feb 2021 #1
Wonder how his status as a criminal swayed opinion of him. SleeplessinSoCal Feb 2021 #2

SleeplessinSoCal

(9,107 posts)
2. Wonder how his status as a criminal swayed opinion of him.
Thu Feb 11, 2021, 07:13 PM
Feb 2021

"In 1923, Hitler enlisted the help of World War I General Erich Ludendorff for an attempted coup known as the "Beer Hall Putsch". The Nazi Party used Italian Fascism as a model for their appearance and policies. Hitler wanted to emulate Benito Mussolini's "March on Rome" of 1922 by staging his own coup in Bavaria, to be followed by a challenge to the government in Berlin."

People who gravitate to the Jesse James, Billy the Kid, or John Dillinger seem willing to forgive criminals like Trump and then actually follow him.

Somehow in the midst of the "Hamilton" phenomenon, our country lost its way. And now we're seeing the Nazi Party rise from the dead as the GOP Zombie Party. With its very own Hitler.

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