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above all because he has mastered
the Marxist theory and because also
he has seen the Russian revolution.
Hndenburg Takes Part.
During his activity in Munich, he
learned to know Captain Ehrhardt
personally. Dittmar described the
hotels Royal and Bavrische Hof as
the centers of the o. c. in Munich
In these hotels numerous banquets
were given in which Ludendorff, Hin
denburg and the Crown Prince Rup-
precht took part.
The evidence of Dittmar upon his
almost successful attempt to make
his way into the Berlin trade mission
of the Soviet Union as an employee
presented new proofs of the provo
cative role of Bozenhardt. Dittmar
then makes sensational statements
upon his first acquaintance with Kin
dermann whom he describes. as the
mental leader of the group. This ac-
quaintance took place thru the agency
of Rose who has just arrived from
Germany as a witness, an active men,
Der of the o. c. and leader of the
economic department of the Berlin
university.
Baumann Came As Spy.
The prosecutor stresses the neces-
sity for carrying the process still far
Their for explaining fully the political
significance of the trial and above
all to clear up the relations existing
between the German governmental
authorities and the fascist organiza-
tions up to 1924 and to deal with the
organization and the activity OF. the
fascist organizations, in particular the
o. c..
Kindermann in his attitude is a
mixture of hot head and a conscious
fascist He is continually called to
order by the court for his challeng-
ing attitude.
The witness Baumann was sent to
Russia by German fascist organiza-
tions independently from the group
Kindermann, Walscht, Dittmar and is
own activity.
In the third session of the second
day of the trial the hearing of Her
bert Heinrich Werz, alias BaumanI
Ehe. according to his own statements
has come to Russia as a spy under
+ the orders of the o. c.
He makes sensational declarations
upon the terrorist and provocative
work of the o. c. He was made {
member of the organization in the
winter of 1922, by the ex-compan!
commander Wilhelm Eduard Won Nal
/ lingrath.
Committed Acts of Terror.
After the Ruhr occupation he re
ceived from the Munich high com
mand of the organization the order tC
drive the workers into the arms o
the French by provocation in the real
of proletarian demonstrations, for in
stance by explosives. With seven 9th
/ er members, amongst them Mailing
roth, he undertook terrorist ac
against the general staff of the army
of occupation in a villa near Essen.
The room of the general staff wai
attacked from three sides. Each o
the attackers fired his whole maya
zine thru the window Bauman re
ceived a bullet in the thigh. Mailing
roth bullet in the breast and bay
onet wound.
After that, preparations were made
to blow up the railway tunnel from
Cologne to Aachen Explosives wer'
transported from Holland over Ma
sastricht-Falkenburg to Herzogenratl
into the glass factory in which Nal
lingroth was working as an ordinar!
worker. Then followed preparation
for an attempt upon the separatis
leaders Smets and Kaiser in Col
ogne.
He was arrested three times by tn,
occupation authorities and was il
prison together with the murderer 0
Graf. Rennert and six police sergeant
later also with Jarres.
Murdered French Agent.
He also took part in the murder o
the French agent Marianne de Tilsot
In June, 1923, he was given provoca
tive work amongst the separatists b.
the o. c., and made the personal az
quaintance Of the separatist leader
Mathes. Dorten and Tietz. On blood
Sunday in Dusseldorf, he gave the sig
nal as pre-arranged by shouting
Long live the RhinIsh Republic" 70