ABSTRACT
The Bavarian Soviet and the relatively slim threat which it had posed of a permanent communist government in Germany nonetheless left a lasting impression on many of Bavaria's moderate and conservative leaders. Adolf Hitler's demands for universal conscription and his strong anti-French proclamations led Hopfen to suggest that Hitler might be a good addition to any number of Pan-German meetings or programs. Historians stressing continuity between the Pan-German League and National Socialism have emphasized this early financial relationship as evidence of strong continuity between the established Right and Hitler's new movement. The Nazi leader and his co-conspirators had kidnapped Gustav von Kahr, Ernst Phner, and the Commander in Chief of the Bavarian army Otto von Lossow, while proclaiming a national dictatorship under Erich Ludendorff. Some of the local Pan-Germans felt that the League headquarters had not given them enough information on the Leagues relationship to the NSDAP at the national level.
