Bavarian Fascisti

Ten thousand undaunted warriors followed their great leader, Adolph Hitler, into battle. The occasion was the first military maneuvers held by the Bavarian Fascista Army, wholehearted supporters of the monarchy. All day long a bloodless battle raged around the villages of Starnberg and Oberwiensfeld just outside Munich. The men were a motley crew, some attired in civilian clothes, some in their old Reichswehr (Defence of the Realm) uniforms. But all were determined compatriots in the cause of the Vaterland. The men were equipped with revolvers and brass knuckles. The artillery was present only in imagination. The minnenwerfer (mortar) platoons were fully equipped except for the minnenwerfers. The men were supplied with slings for the latest one-man machine guns, but the weapons themselves were not visible. An air of reality was given to the sham fight by the dashing cavalry and by the motor cycle messengers. The Fascista organization is so strong in Bavaria that the Federal authorities are unable to check the movement, which has now established itself openly as a political force. Adolf Hitler, replying to charges made against him by the Munich Post, said: "I have never combatted the republican democratic form of state because I regard the present German Reich as neither a democracy nor a republic, but a Marxist--Jewish-International pigsty!"