At the national level, a shared spirit was especially precious to East Africa. After all, East Africa was an immigrant nation built upon colonial expansion, and immigrant nations usually had weak cohesion in their early days. East Africa's history was not even a century old.
Not to mention that East Africa was merely a secular state, vastly different from those nations that had grown out of colonies in the Americas. When Westerners invaded the Americas back then, most did so under the banner of missionary work. In that way, their expansion into the Americas became the conquest of "alien races" for God. Though utterly unreasonable, ordinary people bought into it.
By comparison, East Africa was rather crude. The only thing it could put forward was nationalist rhetoric similar to Germany's so-called "place in the sun." Yet everyone knew just how much weight this "German state" of East Africa truly carried. Therefore, East Africa needed to strengthen its propaganda in other areas and forge a unified national consciousness.
Germany in 1930 was far from peaceful. As the economic situation deteriorated sharply, an undercurrent was gathering and surging through Germany, ready at any moment to erupt and sweep across the entire nation.
Munich.
Stadelheim Prison.
This prison on the outskirts of Munich had been built in 1894 and could hold twelve hundred criminals. It lay only five or six kilometers from the city center. In recent years, with German industrialization and urban expansion, Stadelheim Prison had in fact gone from being in the suburbs to brushing against the edge of Munich itself.
Many newly built homes and roads stood around it, while Stadelheim Prison was ringed by sturdy high walls, watchtowers, and barbed wire, making it look utterly out of place amid its surroundings.
Today was clearly a special day. Quite