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102pear on the balcony of the Military Academy to acknowledgethe cheers.“Hail Hitler. . . . Hail Ludendorff,” two thousandthroats roared in unison in Hamburg. This was April i,Bismarck‟s birthday. Two thousand delegates of the GermanNationalist Party cheered the result of the trial whichwas a vindication.“The day has come,” the leader of the party declared inopen session.“The sun has set,” many National Socialists must havethought.“Hitler is in prison, a martyr. Excellent publicity,” theSocialists lamented.The mark was saved, the Dawes Committee had done itswork and the avalanche of gold from America was set inmotion.Has the world ever before seen such a flow of gold? Itcame in tens of millions, in hundreds of millions. Onlythe sky was the limit. And as the gold crossed the Atlantic,factories in the Ruhr and along the Rhine, in Westphaliaand in the Mark of Brandenburg began to hum. Soon thechant of labour was in full swing and after ten years‟ sufferingthe Reich settled down to a peaceful life.The last act of the drama was over, but behind the scenesthe cleaning up work went on. Hitler‟s party was prohibitedin the German States. Only Thuringia made an exception,the same Thuringia against which his shock troops had carriedon an invisible war half a year ago. But meanwhileThuringia had gone reactionary and her Bolshevists were out.