15th November 1923 - A testimonial from Munich, Germany
The following testimonial was submitted by a student studying in Germany to the Mandarin Observer through a third party source, describing the events of 9th November 1923. It is understood that the student is still in Germany, but is unharmed.
"At 3:00 AM on the 9th, I and my friends were drinking when we heard some gunshots. We thought it was just some drunk soldiers shooting into the air, so we didn't think much of it. Later that morning, I was walking to a library when saw these men, wearing helmets and hoisting this flag with a strange symbol on it, walking towards the Odeonsplatz. They came up agaisnt hundreds of soldiers. The leader of the marchers was a funny-looking man with the kind of mustache that you would see in the talkies. The soldiers then shot at the men. Some fell to the ground while the others broke and ran. Soon, I was hearing on the radio that the government had stopped a 'putsch', the German word for 'coup', and that 18 'Nazis' had been killed. On the 11th, they announced that they had arrested the leader of the putsch, a man named Adolf Hitler. He's been charged with treason. The Nazis have been something of a bogeyman around here, but no one was expecting them to try and overthrow the government. Hopefully, the Nazis won't be such a problem anymore with Hitler behind bars
Now that I think about it, the symbol resembles one that is treasured back home, the wan symbol, the one that is supposed to represent the Buddha's auspicious footprints. What in the hell is such a holy symbol like that doing in that hands of ruffians and malcontents?"
"At 3:00 AM on the 9th, I and my friends were drinking when we heard some gunshots. We thought it was just some drunk soldiers shooting into the air, so we didn't think much of it. Later that morning, I was walking to a library when saw these men, wearing helmets and hoisting this flag with a strange symbol on it, walking towards the Odeonsplatz. They came up agaisnt hundreds of soldiers. The leader of the marchers was a funny-looking man with the kind of mustache that you would see in the talkies. The soldiers then shot at the men. Some fell to the ground while the others broke and ran. Soon, I was hearing on the radio that the government had stopped a 'putsch', the German word for 'coup', and that 18 'Nazis' had been killed. On the 11th, they announced that they had arrested the leader of the putsch, a man named Adolf Hitler. He's been charged with treason. The Nazis have been something of a bogeyman around here, but no one was expecting them to try and overthrow the government. Hopefully, the Nazis won't be such a problem anymore with Hitler behind bars
Now that I think about it, the symbol resembles one that is treasured back home, the wan symbol, the one that is supposed to represent the Buddha's auspicious footprints. What in the hell is such a holy symbol like that doing in that hands of ruffians and malcontents?"
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