ABSTRACT
The multiple crises in Munich during the years after 1918 emerged from the very real problems of demobilizing a highly mobilized society at the end of a long war. Ordinary people took to the streets to demand help with the everyday problems of consumer society in crisis. Their political representatives appealed to them with the claim that only they could rectify the inequities of demobilization. Munich's most significant postwar food demonstration ended peacefully, without any of the looting or violence that authorities feared. The sizable community of unassimilated or barely assimilated immigrant Jews represented postwar immigration and the menace of eastern Bolshevism. Hitler, who had not yet turned his attentions to the connections he perceived between Bolshevism and the Jews, instead drew his material from the economic program of groups like the Schutz-und Trutzbund. Bolshevism is nothing but Jewish tyranny, and the workers there are nothing more than slaves of the Jews.
