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1924 January 21 Lenin suffers a fatal stroke. A triumvirate with
Stalin, Grigory Zinoviev and Lev Kamenev is formed after Lenin's death to
exclude Trotsky from power.
1924 February 1 Great Britain extends de jure recognition to
the U.S.S.R.
1924 February Trotsky is censured for what is called "factionalism."
1924 February 15 Cardinal Faulhaber tells to a meeting of students
and academicians at the Lowenbrau Beer Cellar in Munich that Hitler knew better
than his underlings that the resurrection of the German nation required the
support of Christianity. This theme of the good and well-intentioned Fuehrer and
his evil advisors continues periodically throughout Hitler's career.
1924 February 26 The trial of Hitler, Ludendorff and a number of
other participants in the Munich Putsch begins in Munich.
1924 March Konrad Weitbrecht, a Swabian forester who led an ONT
group in his region, receives a million Austrian crowns, collected by the
brothers of the priories of Werfenstein and Marienkamp, for a seat in South
Germany. (Roots)
1924 March 27 Romanian-Russian negotiations begin in Vienna after
strong pressure from the French.
1924 Spring Detlef Schmude, Prior of Hollenberg, travels to Persia
supposedly hoping to found an ONT colony at Tabriz. Count Hochberg (Frowin)
assumes his duties as Prior during his eighteen-month absence. (Roots)
1924 April The Dawes Plan restructures German reparations and
stabilizes the German currency. American banker Charles Dawes arranges a series
of foreign loans totalling $800 million to consolidate gigantic German chemical
and steel combinations into cartels, one of which is I.G. Farben. "Without
the capital supplied by Wall Street" it is said, "there would have
been no I.G. Farben in the first place, and almost certainly no Adolf Hitler and
World War II." Three Wall Street houses, Dillon, Reed & Co., Harris,
Forbes & Co., and National City handled three-quarters of the loans used to
create these cartels. (Sutton)
(Note: Professor Carroll Quigley wrote that the Dawes Plan was: "largely
a J.P. Morgan production.") (Quigley)
1924 April 1 Hitler is sentenced to five years in military prison at
Landsberg Fortress. General Ludendorff is found not guilty and retires to his
home in the country.
1924 Hitler reads the second edition of the textbook, Menschliche
Erblichkeitslehre und Rassenhygiene (The principles of human heredity and
race-hygiene), written by E. Baur, E. Fischer, and F. Lenz, while imprisoned in
Landsberg, and subsequently incorporates racial ideas into his own book, Mein
Kampf. (Science).
1924 April 2 The Romanian-Russian negotiations fall apart.
1924 June Italian Socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti is murdered
after denouncing Mussolini in the Chamber of Deputies. The crime is traced to a
group of Fascist militants. Mussolini orders their arrest and disclaims any
responsibility. Public opinion, however, seems to be against him and opposition
deputies withdraw from parliament in a protest known as the Aventine Secession
(a reference to the Plebs' withdrawal to the Aventine Hill in ancient Rome),
and many predict the imminent fall of Mussolini's government.
1924 June 7-8 An ONT (Order of New Templars) Whitsun meeting is held
at Werfenstein castle. It is attended by Johann Walthari Wölfl, the new
Prior of Werfenstein, Lanz von Liebenfels' two brothers, Herwik and Friedolin,
and twelve other members. Celebrations began at midnight with the consecration
of fire and water. Under Wölfl's leadership, the Austrian ONT has
flourished and the membership of some 50-60 brothers frequently contributed
money, books, and ceremonial objects for the ornamentation of the priory.
Whitsun meetings were also held in 1925 and 1926. (Roots)
1924 June 12 George Herbert Walker Bush is born in Milton,
Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston. He is the second of five children born to
Prescott Sheldon Bush and Dorothy Walker, daughter of Harriman associate, George
Herbert Walker.
1924 June 24 Dr. Karl Haushofer visits Hess and Hitler in Landsberg
prison. Prison records show that between June 24 and November 12 he visited them
eight times, always on Wednesdays and staying the whole morning and afternoon. (Missing
Years)
1924 The Union Banking Corporation is formally established, as a
unit in the Manhattan offices of the W.A. Harriman & Co., interlocking with
the Fritz Thyssen-owned Bank Voor Handel en Scheepvaart (BHS) in the
Netherlands.
1924 October 28 Following the British example of February 1, the
French extend de jure recognition of the U.S.S.R. Romania and Yugoslavia
refuse.
1924 November Karl Maria Wiligut (Weisthor) is involuntarily
committed to a Salzburg mental asylum and will not be released until early 1927.
1924 November 8 Hitler, Lt. Colonel Hermann Kriebel, Dr. Christian
Weber, Rudolf Hess and other putschers in Landsberg prison celebrate the
first anniverary of the Munich putsch, with the prison band supplying
the music. At exactly 8:34 PM, they comemorated the "historic moment"
the trucks arrived carrying the Hitler Shocktroops. (Missing Years)
1924 November 9 At 1 PM, Hitler and his comrades in Landsberg salute
their sixteen fallen friends who were shot down and killed in Munich the year
before. (Missing Years)
1924 December 20 Hitler is released from Landsberg prison after
serving less than nine months of his five-year sentence.
1924 The Geneva Protocol of 1924, which brands aggressive war as an
international crime, fails because of British opposition.
1924 The Soviet GPU (General Political Administration), formerly the
Cheka secret police, again changes its name. It becomes the OPGU so as to
include the entire USSR. It's function remains the same.
1924 Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin, a leading Soviet theoretician,
becomes a full member of the Politburo.
1924 J. Edgar Hoover is appointed director of the Bureau of
Investigation (later renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigation). (FBI)
1924 A letter to the British Communist party calling for a
revolution is published in Britain. Allegedly written by Zinoviev, President of
the Comintern, this so-called Zinoviev letter was probably a forgery used to
generate anti-leftist feelings on the eve of the general election, but may have
been authentic.
1924 A branch of the Catholic League for Patriotic Politics in
Munich publishes an article in one of its publications, "Der Ruetlischwur,"
calling for a fight against what it calls the three forces of evil opposing
Germany and the Catholic Church: Marxists, Jews, and Freemasons.
1924 Nesta H. Webster publishes Secret Societies and Subversive
Movements, again linking the French Revolution, the Illuminati, Jacobians,
Freemasonry, the Jews and Communism. This book, too, is widely read both in
Europe and America.
1924 Joseph Goebbels becomes editor of the right-wing newspaper
"Volkischer Freiheit" (Folkish Freedom).
1924 The Greek military declares a republic and King George II is
exiled.
1924 The exclusionary Immigration Act of 1924 is passed by the U.S.
Congress, limiting immigration by race and nationality, among other criteria.
1924 The Pierpont Morgan Library, the personal library of J.P.
Morgan, is opened in New York City and made available to scholars.
1924 Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., leaves the University of Virginia without graduating.
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