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TIMEBASE 1921

1921 January Hitler claims that he is reunited with his old friend and former sergeant, Max Amann, by accident, while walking along a Munich street.

1921 Walter Riehl's Austrian Nazi party (DNSAP) holds its first party meeting in Linz, Austria, Hitler's hometown. (Forgotten Nazis)

1921 Austrian Pan-German leader Georg Ritter von Schoenerer dies.

1921 Karl von Habsburg, the deposed emperor of Austria-Hungary, founds the International Pan-European Movement.

1921 Hitler founds the Hitler Jugend (Hitler Youth).

1921 American Jews boycott Henry Ford for his alleged antisemitism, because of his publishing of "The International Jew" and distribution of "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion."

1921 The SA (also called the Brownshirts) is formed from the ranks of Ernst Roehm's private army. (Grolier)

1921 March The naval garrison at Kronshtadt, long a Bolshevik stronghold, rebels along with Petrograd workers in favor of "Soviet Communism without the Bolsheviks!" The protest is brutally suppressed.

1921 March 3 The Romano-Polish Treaty of Alliance is signed.

1921 March 4 Warren G. Harding is inaugurated 29th President of the United States.

1921 March 18 The Treaty of Riga is signed between Russia and Poland. The Polish-Russian frontier is defined and Poland receives a large slice of Russian territory.

1921 March Great Britain and France recognize de facto the Soviet Government as the legitimate government of Russia.

1921 April 2 Albert Einstein arrives in New York to give a lecture at Columbia University on his new theory of relativity. It will open up a totally new way of thinking and will displace much of the scientifiic theory which has preceded it.

1921 April 18 Edward R. Stettinius Sr. writes a letter to Lucy Lee Brownlee and discloses to her that his son, Edward R. Stettinius Jr., "was elected recently a member of one of the select secret societies..." (Forbes). (This secret society was very likely connected with Yale's Skull and Bones.)

1921 April 20 Hitler receives a book from Dr. Babette Steininger, an early Nazi member, as a birthday present. The book is an essay by Tagore, an Indian mystic and nationalist. On the book's fly-leaf, a handwritten inscription from Steininger reads "to Adolf Hitler my dear Armanen-Brother." (Phelps)

1921 May Heinrich Schulz and Heinrich Tillessen travel to Munich where they receive orders to kill Matthias Erzberger, the former Reich Finance Minister and hated signatory of the armistice, from a person who claims to have the authority of the Germanenorden. (Gotthard Jasper; Roots)

1921 June The German Nazi Party claims 3,000 dues-paying members.

1921 June Detlef Schmude, one of Jorg Lanz von Liebenfel's most ardent supporters in Germany, organizes the printing of the ONT rule at Magdeburg, in which he, Johann Walthari Wölfl, and Lanz sign as the Priors of Hollenberg, Werfenstein, and Marienkamp. (Regularium; Roots)

1921 July Rudolf Gorsleben becomes Gauleiter of the South Bavarian section of the radical antisemitic Deutschvölkischer Schutz und Trutzbund, an early competitor of the Nazi Party for support in Southern Germany. (Roots)

1921 July 2 President Harding signs a joint resolution of Congress declaring an end to the war with Germany and Austria-Hungary.

1921 July 11 Hitler threatens to resign from the Nazi party if he is not given dictatorial powers. Hitler's ploy is successful and from this moment on, Hitler becomes the uncontested leader of the German Nazi party.

1921 July 14 Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are found guilty of murder.

1921 July 21 Former General William "Billy" MItchell orchestrates the sinking of the German battleship Ostfriesland in a demonstration of concentrated bombing. He is convinced of the superiority of air power over sea power.

1921 July 29 The Council on Foreign Relations is founded in Washington D.C. It's British counterpart is the Royal Institute of International Affairs.

1921 August Prescott Bush marries Dorothy Walker, daughter of George Herbert Walker.

1921 August The U.S. signs a peace treaty with Germany.

1921 August 16-18 The Times of London in a lead article entitled "The End of the Protocols," written by correspondent Philip Graves, debunks The Protocols of the Elders of Zion as a forgery. Graves establishes a connection between the Protocols and what is said to be its major source, a satire of Napoleon III, entitled Dialogue between Machiavelli and Montesquieu in Hell, written by a Frenchman named Maurice Joly (Brussels, 1864). (Cohn, Segel/Levy)

1921 August 16 King Peter I of Serbia dies and his son, Alexander, becomes king of the new Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes.

1921 August 25 The U.S. signs a peace treaty with Germany.

1921 September 14 Hitler physically attacks Otto Ballerstedt and is later sentenced to a month in jail.

1921 September 29 Brockhusen's constitution for the Germanenorden is accepted, providing for a complex organization of grades, rings, and provincial "citadels (Burgen) supposed to generate secrecy for a nationwide system of local groups having many links with militant völkisch associations, including the Deutschvölkischer Schutz und Trutzbund. (Bundesarchiv, Koblenz; Roots)

1921 At the Tenth Party Congress, Lenin introduces his New Economic Policy, restoring some private property, ending restrictions on private trade, and terminating forced grain requisitions.The foundations for building Bolshevik socialism have been laid but the revolutionary period proper has come to an end.

1921 November 4 Hundreds of Marxists attempt to disrupt a speech by Hitler at the Hofbrauhaus in Munich. Hess takes a leading part in the brawl and suffers a skull injury.

1921 November 4 Japanese premier Hara Takashi is assassinated in Tokyo by a radical right-wing student.

1921 November All capital stock in the "Munchener Beobachter" ("Volkischer Beobachter") is transferred to Adolf Hitler. (Sebottendorf; Roots)

1921 November 29 Hitler writes a long autobiographical letter to an unidentified doctor. (This may have been Dr. Walter Riehl, Austrian leader of the German National Socialist Workers Party (DNSAP). (See December 1921 and Biographies) (Autobiographical letter)

1921 December Hitler speaks at a meeting in Vienna organized by Walter Riehl's Austrian Nazi party (DNSAP).

1921 December Rudolf Gorsleben breaks with the Deutschvölkischer Schutz und Trutzbund, forming a new alliance with Julius Streicher, who laters edits "Der Sturmer" under Nazi auspices, finding considerable aid and support in both Regensburg and Nuremberg. Gorsleben also works closely with Lorenz Mesch, Germanenorden leader in Regensburg, whose proteges Schulz and Tillessen had just assassinated Matthias Erzberger in May. (Roots)

1921 December 13 The United States, Britain, Japan, and France sign the Four Power Treaty, pledging to consult one another if any of their Pacific island possessions is threatened.

1921 December 24 German Jewish politician Walter Rathenau writes in the Wiener Freie Presse (Vienna Free Press), " Three hundred men, all of whom are known to one another, guide the economic destinies of the Continent and seek their successors among their followers." Many antisemites, including General Ludendorff, promptly concluded that since Rathenau was a Jew, he must be one of the three hundred and that these were in fact the mysterious "Elders of Zion." (Morais)

(Note: Nowhere in Rathenau's original article were Jews mentioned in any context.)

1921 The first Arabic translation of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion is published in Damascus, Syria. (Segel/Levy)

1921 Jorg Lanz von Liebenfels establishes another Order of the New Templars (ONT) priory at Marienkamp in Budapest, Hungary. Lanz regularly corresponds with ONT brothers in Germany, Austria, Great Britain, the United States and South Americas. (Roots)

1921 The Fascist party in Italy elects 35 members to parliament. Mussolini's oratorical skills, the postwar economic crisis, a widespread lack of confidence in the traditional political system, and a growing fear of socialism, all helped the Fascist party to grow to 300,000 registered members by 1921.

1921 Achille Ratti, the future Pope Pius XI, becomes cardinal-archbishop of Milan.

1921 The Reparations Commission fixes Germany's war reparations at 132 billion gold marks.

1921 Nesta H. Webster publishes World Revolution which links the French Revolution, the Illuminati, Jacobians, Freemasonry, the Jews and Communism. The book creates a sensation, and is widely read, both in Europe and America.

1921 Albert Einstein's receives the Nobel Prize for physics -- it was awarded not for relativity, but for his 1905 work on the photoelectric effect. His theories of relativity still remained controversial for his less flexibly minded colleagues.

1921 The Irish Free State is created as a self-governing dominion of Great Britain.

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