At that time I myself was still a soldier. My exterior and interior
had been whetted and hardened for wellnigh six years, so that at
first I must have seemed strange in this circle. I, too, had
forgotten how to say: 'that's impossible,' or 'it won't work'; 'we
can't risk that,' 'that is too dangerous,' etc.
For of course the business was dangerous. Little attention as the
Reds paid to one of your bourgeois gossip clubs whose inner
innocence and hence harmlessness for themselves theyknew
better than its own members, they were determined to use every
means to get rid of a movement which did seem dangerous to
them. Their most effective method in such cases has at all times
been terror or violence.
In the year 1920,
in many regions of Germany, a national
meeting that dared to address its appeal to the broad masses and
publicly invite attendance was simply impossible. The
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