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SOURCE OF HISTORIES # SOURCE 2 Hitler knew how to whip up those crowds jammed closely in a dense cloud of cigarette smoke – not by argument, but by his manner: the roaring and especially the power of his repetitions delivered in a certain infectious rhythm ... He would draw up a list of existing evils and imaginary abuses and after listing them, in higher and higher crescendo, he screamed: 'And whose fault is it? It's all ... the fault ... of the Jews!' A person who went to Nazi meetings describes the impact of Hitler's speeches. From A Part of Myself: Portrait of an Epoch, by C. Zuckmayer, 1966. # The Munich Putsch, 1923 By 1923 the Nazis were still very much a minority party, but Hitler had given them a high profile. In November 1923 Hitler believed that the moment had come for him to topple the Weimar Government. The Government was preoccupied with the economic crisis. Stresemann had just called off Germany's passive resistance in the Ruhr (see page 16). On 8 November, Hitler hijacked a local government meeting and announced he was taking over the government of Bavaria. He was joined by the old war hero Ludendorff. Nazi Stormtroopers, many of them under the command of Erns...