Where is the state authority in Bavaria? Once again, this was discussed for two days in the Budget Committee of the Bavarian State Parliament. On May 1, the National Socialist squads with machine guns, rifles and hand grenades marched to the Oberwiesenfeld, Munich's parade ground, not to hold a "sporting exercise," but to crush the Social Democracy during its May Day celebration and overthrow the government. They are also said to have had guns and other military means of power at their disposal, and the minister has remained silent about it.
The attempted coup was omitted, apparently because "the combat units" on which the National Socialists had counted did not want to know anything about the struggle and the National Socialists and parts of some small associations, the "purified core", as one National Socialist speaker put it, are said to have lost heart when they saw that the expected Anschluss and the active support of the Reichswehr and the state police were nothing. Munich was saved, the people left, not without courageously attacking and beating scattered opponents on their way home.
Isn't it possible on a large scale, so on a small scale
The embarrassment of this stalled coup had to be covered up with immoderate threats, lies and insults in the National Socialist speeches and papers, and there was no lack of heroic deeds. It doesn't work on a large scale, but on a small scale. The National Socialists have formed "interception detachments" that carry out daily raids on Social Democratic pubs with half a hundred men, and they work in such a way that in Munich the local result, which in other cities is the fall of a cab crook, is soon a National Socialist raid in which Social Democrats are injured.
This is the picture of public order in Munich and within the authorities it does not look much better. Deputies of the ruling party interpellate that high school students are asking for a dispensation in order to comply with the order of the combat units. The high school professors must be reproached for participating in the activities of the combat units. Police officers keep Hitler informed about the police files and official proceedings, i.e. they provide him with spying services, to speak in the style of the Munich police headquarters, and a ministerial councillor accuses the Bavarian ministers of conspiring with a French general against the Reich and its constitution, as well as of intent to hand over Munich to the enemy.
The matter is not dismissed
All these are not inventions of the North German press, but statements by Bavarian members of the committee of the Bavarian state parliament. The Knilling government has come so far, and it is understandable that the committee declared that civil war was inevitable and imminent, that state authority was shaken, that the government was bankrupt. Nothing characterizes the trust that is still placed in the Bavarian government better than that the mayor of Nuremberg has turned to Berlin for military aid. Minister Schweyer has protested decisively against this, and right-wing deputies have expressed their attitude against the Reich with the cry of "high treason". One does not wonder why the board of directors of a Bavarian city decides to take such a step.