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134Minister of Interior in the Thuringian government. AnotherHitler nominee was appointed Councillor of the ThuringianState.The city of Pirmasens, in the Bavarian Palatinate, hadnow a Nazi Burgomaster. In the council of Coburg the Hitlercohorts had a clear majority. Bayreuth, too, listened toa new Wotan – a Fascist councilman – thundering againstJewish participation in the city‟s fairs of horse and grain.The intelligence spread like wildfire through Nazi headquartersthat the government of the Socialist Hermann Muellerwas in serious danger. The People‟s Party, which underGustave Stresemann had been safely harnessed to the chariotof the republic, began to balk at the distasteful task and threatenedto upset the arrangement. Out the Nazi emissarieswent to reconnoitre the field of operations and they cameback with beaming faces. The Populists, always friendlyto capital, were determined not to saddle large incomes withadditional taxation. There was jubilation in the Nazi ranksand the wires were hot with strict orders to redouble effortsand increase agitation.Signs of a gradual break-down of authority were notlacking. In the Spring of 1930 the number of Nazi-Bolshiencounters increased. The object of the fight was the sameon both sides – to incapacitate the enemy, but the methodswere different. The Nazis had taken a liking to rubbersticks, while the Bolshis showed a preference for beer jars,the skull-cracking capacity of which has been proved. Manyof the battles were fought for the possession of roadside inns,but most of them had not even that much justification.