Beer Hall Putsch

Beer Hall Putsch
or Munich Putsch

(Nov. 8–9, 1923) Unsuccessful attempt by Adolf Hitler to start an insurrection in Germany against the Weimar Republic.

On Nov. 8, 1923, Hitler and his men pushed their way into a right-wing political meeting in a Munich beer hall and obtained agreement that the leaders there should join in carrying the "revolution" to Berlin. The next day, some 3,000 Nazis marched toward the Marienplatz but were met by police gunfire. Hitler was subsequently sentenced to five years in prison for treason; he served only eight months, time he spent writing Mein Kampf.

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▪ German history
also called  Munich Putsch , German  Bierkeller Putsch,  Münchener Putsch , or  Hitlerputsch 

      Adolf Hitler's (Hitler, Adolf) attempt to start an insurrection in Germany against the Weimar Republic on Nov. 8–9, 1923. Hitler and his small Nazi Party associated themselves with General Erich Ludendorff (Ludendorff, Erich), a right-wing German military leader of World War I. Forcing their way into a right-wing political meeting in a beer hall in Munich on the evening of November 8, Hitler and his men obtained agreement that the leaders there should join in carrying the “revolution” to Berlin (after the pattern of Benito Mussolini's march on Rome in the preceding year); but the next day, on a march toward the Marienplatz in the centre of Munich, the approximately 3,000 Nazis were met by a fusillade of gunfire from a police cordon; 16 Nazis and 3 policemen died. The rebels then abandoned the project on thus learning that the government was prepared to counteract forcibly. At the subsequent trial in a sympathetic Bavarian court, Ludendorff was released, and Hitler was given a minimum sentence for treason—five years' imprisonment. He actually served only eight months in the fortress of Landsberg, where he wrote much of his testamentary Mein Kampf (“My Struggle”). The abortive putsch gave Hitler worldwide fame but led him to decide to achieve power by legal means.

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