100 years ago Adolf Hitler practiced during the “Train to Coburg” how he could win the streets for himself with right-wing thugs. Ironically, the small Franconian royal town became the blueprint for the rise of National Socialism. About a German destiny.
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Olaf Przybilla, Coburg
100 years ago, in October 1922, Adolf Hitler turned the city of Coburg into a laboratory. It was tested there how you can win the street with thugs. In northern Franconia, more than ten years before the Nazis took power, a kind of experimental manual could be observed, a script for National Socialist terror. And it is by no means the case – as one might think – that at the time no one would have noticed what was happening in a town on the border with Thuringia that was as much educated as it was aristocratic.