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TIMEBASE 1920 1920 Russian language editions of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion are published in Berlin, New York, Paris and Tokyo (1920-22). (Segel/Levy)
1920 January Karl Harrer resigns from all offices in the German DAP.
1920 Hitler meets Dietrich Eckart and Alfred Rosenberg for first time at the home of Houston Stewart Chamberlain in Bayreuth. (Pauwels)
Note: Most other sources state that Hitler's first meeting with Chamberlain was in September 1923.
1920 January 10 The Treaty of Versailles goes into effect and the League of Nations is officially established with headquarters at Geneva, Switzerland.
1920 January 14 French General Maurice Janin, Commander-in-Chief of the Allied troops in Siberia, orders the Czecho-Slovak Legion to kidnap Admiral Aleksandr Kolchak, leader of the anti-Bolshevik resistance, and hand him over to the Bolsheviks at Irkutsk in exchange for one-third of the bullion of the Russian Imperial Treasury which is under Kolchak's control. This bullion will become the first national treasury of the newly created country of Czechoslovakia. (Sturdza).
1920 January Gottfried zur Beek (Ludwig Müller von Hausen) publishes The Protocols of the Elders of Zion in German, the first documented non-Russian version. It is dated 1919, but is actually published in mid January. Thirty-three versions will be published in German by 1933. (Segel/Levy)
1920 January 16 The 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution goes into effect. It prohibits the sale and consumption of all alcoholic beverages.
1920 January 28 Rudolf Hess is invited to tea at the home of Dr. Karl Haushofer for the first time. Hess was drawn into Haushofer's lectures on geo-politics and willingly acted as his unpaid assistant. (Missing Years)
1920 Philipp Stauff continues operation of the List Society at its new headquarters in Berlin. From his home at Moltkestrasse 46a in Berlin-Lichterfelde, Stauff publishes new editions of Guido von List's Ario-Germanic researches until 1922. (Roots)
1920 February 6 Grand Duke Johann Albrecht of Mecklenburg (Irmin) Chancellor of the loyalist Germanenorden dies of what is described as a heart attack. His funerary notice in the Bundesarchiv in Koblenz is decorated with swastikas. (Irminism is the religion professed years later by Karl Maria Wiligut (K.M. Weisthor of Himmler's SS staff.) (Bundesarchiv; Roots)
1920 February 7 Admiral Kolchak and his Prime Minister, Victor Pepeliaev, are executed. General Janin is never charged.
1920 February 8 Winston Churchill writes in the Illustrated Sunday Herald: "From the days of Spartacus -- Weishaupt to those of Karl Marx, to those of Trotsky... this world-wide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilization... has been steadily growing."
1920 February 11 In Romania, Corneliu Codreanu and labor leader Constantin Pancu forcibly seize a factory from the Communists.
1920 February 20 The "Twenty-five Point Program" of the German DAP is officially adopted. (25 Point Program)
1920 February Walter Riehl designs a new Austrian DNSAP party flag using a swastika on a white field. (Forgotten Nazis)
1920 February 24 The German DAP gives the first public reading of its "Twenty-five Points." Hitler later describes this event in Mein Kampf as "the first great public demonstration of our young movement." (25 Point Program)
1920 March 1 The U.S. Supreme Court rules that U.S. Steel is not an illegal monopoly.
1920 March 10 Karl Lueger, former mayor of Vienna, dies in Austria.
1920 March 13 Gustav von Kahr assumes dictatorial powers in Munich.
1920 March 13 Berlin is seized in a right-wing Putsch. American-born journalist Wolfgang Kapp, 51 year-old founder of the Fatherland Party, receives support from irregular troops under Geneneral von Luttwitz, in a move to restore the monarchy. The disbanded troops, back from fighting "Bolshevik republicanism" in the Baltic provinces, are led by the Erhardt Brigade wearing swastikas on their helmets. The legitimate government escapes to the provinces, Kapp is made Chancellor and orders a general strike, he gets support from General Ludendorff but fails to gain foreign recognition. The army remains generally uncommitted, the Security Police oppose him and Kapp soon finds he has no authority. (See March 17).
1920 March 15 General Ludendorff moves to a small town in Bavaria near Munich.
1920 March 17 The Kapp putsch fails after only four days and Kapp flees Berlin. Hitler and Eckart arrive in Berlin too late to take part.
1920 March 19 The U.S. Senate again rejects the Versailles Treaty. The U.S. Senate also strongly objects to the U.S. entering the League of Nations.
1920 March 20 The "Munchener Beobachter" shareholders are listed as follows: Kathe Bierbaumer 46,000, Dora Kunze 10,000, Baron Franz von Freilitzsch 20,000, Theodor Heuss 10,000, Gottfried Feder 10,000, Franz Xavier Eder 10,000, Wilhelm Gutberlet 10,000, Karl Alfred Braun 3,500. (Freilitzsch and Heuss were members of the Thule Society and Feder was one of Hitler's earliest supporters) (Sebottendorff; Roots)
1920 March 29 Rudolf Hess is temporarily recruited by the local airfield at Schleissheim. (Missing Years)
1920 April 1 As part of the Red scare that is sweeping America, five members of the New York Legislature are expelled for being members of the Socialist Party. They will be legitimately reelected, but once again will be refused permission to sit in session. (Schlesinger I)
1920 April 6 Rudolf Hess flies an airplane to a Bavarian unit stationed in the Ruhr. (Missing Years)
1920 April 15 Italian-born anarchists, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are accused of murdering a paymaster and a guard at a shoe factory in South Braintree, Massachusetts, escaping with the payroll of nearly $16,000.
1920 April The Red Army, under the command of Mikhail Tukhachevsky, advances on Poland.
1920 April 25 War breaks out between Poland and the Soviets. The Polish-Soviet War is the result of both traditional Polish-Russian hostility and ideological factors. Lenin is convinced that Polish workers and peasants want a Polish Soviet Republic. He also hopes to push toward Germany, to establish socialism there, and to secure German military and economic assistance.
1920 April Adolf Hitler "officially" leaves the German army.
1920 April 30 Rudolf Hess resigns his commission in the German army at Munich. (Missing Years)
1920 May 1 Walter Riehl's Austrian Nazi party (DNSAP) introduces its new flag -- a swastika on a white field -- and flies it in public for the first time. (Forgotten Nazis)
1920 May 8 The Times of London publishes a long article on a recent English translation of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. It is entitled "A Disturbing Pamphlet: A Call for Enquiry," and says in part:
"What are these Protocols? Are they authentic? If so, what malevolent assembly concocted these plans, and gloated over their exposition? Are they a forgery? If so, whence comes the uncanny note of prophecy, prophecy in parts fulfilled, in parts far gone in the way of fulfillment?... Have we, by straining every fibre of our national body, escaped a 'Pax Germanica' only to fall into a 'Pax Judaica'?" (Morais)
1920 May 20 A right-handed (counterclockwise) swastika makes its first public appearance as the flag of the Nazi movement at the foundation meeting of the local Starnberg group. Hitler convinced Friedrich Krohn, who originally had proposed a left-handed design, to make the change. Krohn, however, was responsible for the color scheme of a black swastika in a white circle on a red background. (Roots)
1920 May 22 Henry Ford's weekly Dearborn Independent begins publishing a series of articles on the "Jewish World Conspiracy" Most are largely based on The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. (Segel/Levy)
1920 June War veterans Heinrich Schulz and Heinrich Tillessen move to Regensburg, where they meet Loenz Mesch local leader of the Germanenorden. (Roots)
1920 June Rudolf Hess is said to have seen Adolf Hitler speak for the first time at the Sternecker-Bräu beerhall in Munich. Haushofer accompanied Hess to several National Socialist meeting in June. (Missing Years)
(Note: Other sources say Dietrich Eckart personally escorted Hess to his first Nazi party meeting in May 1920. Afterward, Eckart supposedly introduced Hess to Adolf Hitler.)
1920 June 4 Hungary signs the Treaty of Trainon at Versailles, reducing the country in area from 109,000 sq. miles to less than 36,000 sq. miles.
1920 June Marshal Pilsudski, fearing a Red Army counteroffensive from the eastern Ukraine, launches an attack on Kiev, but the Polish armies were soon pushed back to Warsaw.
1920 Summer London's Morning Post features a series of eighteen articles entitled "The Cause of World Unrest." A new translation of the Protocols by one of the Morning Post's reporters, Victor Marsden, is published by the antiseitic organization known as the Britons. It becomes the standard English-lanuage edition. (Segal/Levy)
1920 July 1 Rudolf Hess joins the Nazi party. Hess is said to have failed to persuade Haushofer to fall in behind the "tribune" (as he referred to Hitler during this period). (Missing Years)
1920 August 8 Hitler receives permission to rename the German Workers Party (DAP) -- it now becomes the National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP). It seems more than coincidential that it is so similar to Dr. Walter Riehl's German National Socialist Workers Party (DNSAP) in Austria. (Forgotten Nazis)
1920 August Hitler tells an audience in Salzburg, Austria, that "the same movement that started in Austria in 1904, has just now begun to gain a footing in Germany." This is an obvious reference to Walter Riehl's Austrian National Socialist Workers Party (DNDAP). (Forgotten Nazis)
1920 August Marshal Pilsudski's Polish armies defeats the Red Army on the Vistula, checking the spread of revolution into Central Europe and preventing Soviet domination of Eastern Europe.
1920 September 24 Hitler speaks at the German Nazi Party's first mass meeting; denouncing what he calls the "November Criminals" and calls for "vengeance for the perjured deed of November 9, 1918."
1920 October King Alexander of Greece dies.
1920 October Sebottendorff succeeds Ernst Tiede as editor of the "Astrologische Rundschau" (Astrological Review).
1920 October 5 The Soviets ask Poland for an armistice.
1920 October 12 A preliminary treaty of peace is signed in Riga between Poland and Soviet Russia. The Polish-Soviet War comes to an end.
1920 General Ludendorff introduces Hitler to Gregor Strasser.
1920 November Eleutherios Venizelos and his Liberal party are unexpectedly defeated in the Greek national elections.
1920 November 15 The first Assembly of the League of Nations meets in Geneva, with 41 nations represented. More than 20 nations will later join, though there are numerous withdrawals.
1920 Winter Theodor Czepl visits Karl Maria Wiligut (Weisthor) in Salzburg and stays for seven weeks. He is said to have visited with Wiligut on at least two other occasions during this period. Czepl records his visits in detail in a memorandum prepared for the Order of the New Templars (ONT). (Mund; Roots)
(Note: Wiligut (Weisthor) identifies with a religion he calls Irminism, which he says is distinct from, and the opponent of Wotanism. Irminists, he claims, celebrate Krist, a Germanic god, who Christianity had bowdlerized and then appropriated as its own saviour.) (Roots)
1920 December 5 A plebiscite restores Constantine I to the Greek throne.
1920 December 17 All shares of the "Munchener Beobachter" are now in the hands of Anton Drexler. (Sebottendorff; Roots)
1920 December 17 The Munchener Beobachter, (later renamed the "Völkischer Beobachter,") becomes the official organ of the NSDAP. Dietrich Eckart is its first editor and publisher. (Wistrich I)
1920 December 18 Rudolf Gorsleben delivers a speech entitled "The Aryan Man" to the Thule Society. In his diary, Johnnnes Hering writes of Gorsleben's occult tendencies and describes his doctrine of "Aryan" mysticism. (Roots)
1920 The antisemitic French daily La Libre Parole serializes the complete text of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. (Segel/Levy)
1920 Poland successfully fights to remain independent from the Soviet Union. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion begin circulating freely throughout Poland.
1920 Zinoviev, head of the Comintern, convenes a Congress of Peoples of the East at Baku in Azerbaijan, urging delegates from various Asian countries to wage a "holy war" against British imperialism.
1920 Averell Harriman and George Herbert Walker gain control of the Hamburg-Amerika Line in negotiations with Chief Executive Wilhelm Cuno and the Line's banker's M.M. Warburg. Cuno will contribute large sums to the Nazis during the early 1930's.
1920 During 1920, Hitler makes a number of speeches in Austria -- at Innsbruck, Hallein, Saint Polten and Vienna among others. These meeting were probably organized by Walter Riehl's Austrian Nazi party (DNSAP). (Forgotten Nazis)
1920 Admiral Miklos Horthy becomes regent of Hungary.
1920 Chaim Weizmann is named President of the World Zionist Organization.
1920 Hitler declares that "It is our duty to arouse, to whip up, an to incite our people to instinctive repugnance of the Jews." (Atlas)
1920 Mahatma Gandhi begins a campaign of noncooperation against British rule in India.
1920 A jurist, Professor Binding, and a psychiatrist, Professor Hoche, publish the book, Die Freigabe der Vernichtung lebensunwerten Lebens (The sanctioning of the destruction of lives unworthy of being lived). (Science)
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