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== Interwar politics and exile == From 1924 to 1930, Hoegner was a Social Democratic member of the [[Landtag of Bavaria]]. He was involved in the investigation into Hitler's [[Beer Hall Putsch]] in 1923 and through this became part of the opposition to the [[Nazi]]s. He published, anonymously, a paper on the findings of the investigation, which is considered an important historical document due to the fact that the Nazis destroyed all official reports from the inquest after 1933.<ref>[http://www.historisches-lexikon-bayerns.de/artikel/artikel_44365 Anonymous (was Wilhelm Hoegner), ''Hitler und Kahr. Die bayerischen Napoleonsgrößen von 1923, 1928''] Historisches Lexikon Bayerns. Retrieved 9 May 2008 {{in lang|de}}</ref> He actively opposed Hitler in his time as a member of the German [[Reichstag (Weimar Republic)|Reichstag]] from 1930 to 1933. For this reason, he was dismissed from government service after the [[Machtergreifung|Nazi takeover]] in 1933 and had to escape to [[Austria]], and from there, in 1934, to [[Switzerland]], where he worked as a freelance writer. He was in contact there with other German refugees from the Nazis and worked with them in an organisation called ''Demokratisches Deutschland'', aimed against the Nazis.
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