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CHAPTER VI.THE DAY OF J U D G M E N TCCESS to the former Military Academy in theABlutenburgstrasse was cut off by barbed wire.Mounted police kept the crowd at a distance.“Hail Hitler,” a girl in the smock of a tobacco workershouted and began to run away, because a policeman wasafter her.The prisoners were brought and the barbed wire obstacleswere opened.“How pale he is,” a young lady of the demi-mondewhispered to her companion who looked like a gigolo.“Hunger strike,” he replied curtly and with an air ofinfinite wisdom. He was bursting with information and asshe asked no more questions he volunteered it more volubly:“They caught him three days later in the house of afriend, half German and half American, in Uffing. He refusedto eat for several days.”His voice was lost in the hubbub.There was barbed wire, too, in front of the governmentbuilding in Maximilianstrasse where Dr. von Kahr residedin state.“Beware of the dog,” a sign warned the passer-by untilthe police removed it.