The history of the NSDAP in Northern Bavaria is
closely related to "March to Coburg" in October 1922. As Gauleiter of
the Deutsch-Völkische Schutzbund Hans Dietrich had invited the NSDAP to
attend the "German Day" in Coburg under the condition that Hitler
appeared in person. Coburg subsequently became a bastion of National
Socialism: it was the first German city in which the NSDAP won absolute
majority in the city council elections in 1929 and which granted Hitler
honorary citizenship in 1932. In commemoration of the "March to Coburg"
Hitler introduced the Coburg badge of honour in 1932, one of the highest
distinctions awarded to party members.
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