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1126/11).
     
81 . BAK, NL 1126/11, 6 December 1918.
     
82 . Ibid. 23 June and 29 August 1918. Cf. Smith,
Himmler
, 87 f.
     
83 . BAK, NL 1126/11, 6 December 1918.
     
84 . KAM OP 54540, Archive des fr. Bay. III. A.K., letter to Major Ritter v. Braun re promotion to lieutenant, 18 March 1921; Smith,
Himmler
, 88.
     

CHAPTER 4
     
1 . In his diary entry for 14 February 1924 Himmler expressed his frustration and disappointment at his unsuccessful attempts to find work. It is clear from a letter from an acquaintance, Maria Rauschmayer, dated 13 June 1924 (BAK, NL 1126/17), that, prompted by Himmler’s mother, she had been trying to ask around about a job in agriculture for him.
     
2 . TB, 11, 13, 14, and 15 February 1924; evidently he was awaiting mail which was supposed to be left in the Schützen or ‘Fasching’ pharmacy. (According to Karl Wolff, his fellow fraternity member, Fasching, worked in the Schützen pharmacy: StA München, 34865/9, interrogation of 16 February 1962.) On 11 February Himmler referred to arrests of putschists in his diary; on 15 February he noted more details about the role of one of those arrested.
     
3 . TB, 15 February 1924.
     
4 . In 1924 Gebhard Himmler was registered as living at Marsplatz 8 (II Floor), see
Adressbuch für München 1924
.
     
5 . BAB, BDC, Research Ordner 199, NSDAP headquarters to Himmler, 12 August 1925, with enclosure: National Socialist local branches in Lower Bavaria.
     
6 . On his work on the article for the
Langquaider Zeitung
see TB 11, 12, and 17 February 1924; on its publication in the
Rottenburger Anzeiger
see TB, 23 February 1924.
     
7 . TB, 24 February 1924.
     
8 . TB, 25 February 1924.
     
9 . TB, 24 February 1924.
     
10 . Lothar Gruchmann and Reinhard Weber, with the assistance of Otto Gritschneder (eds),
Der Hitler-Prozess 1924. Wortlaut der Hauptverhandlung vor dem
Volksgericht München
I, 4 vols. (Munich, 1997–9), here vol. 2 (Munich, 1998), 642. This shows that the defence offered to call Himmler as a witness to the aggressive behaviour of a Reichswehr officer who, on 9 November, was placed with his troops opposite to the Reichskriegsflagge in front of the War Ministry.
     
11 . BAK, NL 1126/7, letters from Hajim (?) Mazhar, 24 November 1923, 16 April 1924, and 15 March 1925; reference in TB, 14 February 1924.
     
12 . TB, 11, 14, and 15 February 1924.
     
13 . TB, 12 February 1924.
     
14 . BAK, NL 1126/17, Robert Kistler to Himmler, 17 June 1924.
     
15 . Ibid. letter of 5 November 1924.
     
16 . TB, 7 November 1921 and 31 May 1922. On the ‘Paula affair’ see also Smith,
Himmler
, 198ff.
     
17 . TB, 12 November 1921 He had read the book in December 1920 and commented on it as follows: ‘A book that presents the ideal of a woman as pure feeling and shows us woman simply as a goddess, as she often appears as a goddess to a true man. It is a hymn of praise to woman and to a feeling that is beautiful and idealized.—If only it could come true in the world we live in and if only the goddess woman did not have so many flaws’ (Leseliste no. 72).
     
18 . This is suggested by Paula Stölze’s comment in her letter to Gebhard of 4 March 1924 that at the time she had considered Heinrich’s letter to be ‘not quite right’ (BAK, NL 1126/13).
     
19 . Ibid. Himmler to Paula Stölzle, italics in the original. It was a draft of 18 April 1923, which was sent in that or similar form as is clear from Paula’s response, in particular her unwillingness to be ‘lectured to’ by Heinrich.
     
20 . Ibid. 1 July 1923.
     
21 . Ibid.
     
22 . Ibid. 11 February 1924.
     
23 . The break-up is clear from various letters in BAK, NL 1126/19: Gebhard Himmler’s letter to the parents of his fiancée, 27 February 1924, as well as to Paula, 28 February 1924; Paula’s reply as well as that of her father, Max Stölzle, both dated 4 March 1924. Gebhard then replied on 10 March 1924.
     
24 . BAK, NL 1126/13, 4 March 1924.
     
25 . Ibid. letter from the private