“On April 27, the troops that Hoffmann and Noske had amassed—a formidable force of thirty thousand men—crossed into Bavaria… On the following day, mass desertion in the Red Army set in. Hitler, however, did not defect. Furthermore a sufficiently large number of men stayed behind for Rudolf Egelhofer to organize a last stand.”

— Thomas Weber (historian)

Source: Becoming Hitler: The Making of a Nazi (2017), pp. 54-55

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