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appalachiablue

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Thu Jan 7, 2021, 04:45 PM Jan 2021

Hitler's Failed Coup d'Etat In Munich: The Beer Hall Putsch Nov. 8, 1923



- Hitler and the Nazis attempt to overthrow the German government in 1923.

On November 8–9, 1923, Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party led a coalition group in an attempt to overthrow the German government. This attempted coup d'état came to be known as the Beer Hall Putsch.

They began at the Bürgerbräu Keller, a beer hall in the Bavarian city of Munich. Hitler and the Nazi Party aimed to seize control of the state government, march on Berlin, and overthrow the German federal government. They sought to establish a new government to oversee the creation of a unified Greater German Reich.

In this new government, citizenship would be based on race.

The putsch failed and Bavarian authorities prosecuted nine participants, including Hitler. Despite its failure, the leaders ultimately redefined the putsch as a heroic effort to save the nation.

A Climate of National Instability: Throughout Germany, the first four years of the Weimar Republic were marred by economic woes, trauma at the loss of World War I, and humiliation at what many considered to be the excessively harsh terms of the Versailles Treaty. In this climate of national instability, both left and right wing political movements attempted and failed to overthrow the fledgling democracy...

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Hitler's Failed Coup d'Etat In Munich: The Beer Hall Putsch Nov. 8, 1923 (Original Post) appalachiablue Jan 2021 OP
If he was old fat and unhealthy in 23 he wouldn't have had time for a comeback. bullimiami Jan 2021 #1
Too bad, Adolph had some destructive decades left.. appalachiablue Jan 2021 #3
What an absolutely stunning find... Arne Jan 2021 #2
So what did we just witness? DBoon Jan 2021 #4
Lol that, Burger King, 7-11 appalachiablue Jan 2021 #5
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