The Beer Hall Putsch (Munich Putsch)
- Part of culture in the 1920's to go to Beer Halls
- Political meetings would take place in Beer Halls
- 1923 Beer Hall Putsch (Munich Putsch) was an uprising against German government (organized by Hitler)
- An attempt to overthrow the government after protesting the French Occupation of the Ruhr
- Organized in a German Beer Hall by Adolf Hitler and Gen. Ludendorff
- Because people were drinking, Hitler was able to fire them up very easily
- Designed after Mussolini's March on Rome (fails because not enough people show up)
- Both Adolf Hitler and General Ludendorff arrested and sent to Landsberg prison
Mein Kampf
- While in prison Hitler wrote "Mein Kampf" (My Struggle) with the help of Rudolf Hess
- He outlines the future of Nazism in this book including:
- Lebensraum
- Anti-Semitism
- Anti-Communism
- Need to re-arm and attack Versailles
- The rise of the Aryan Race
- Most of what he wrote came true
- He was none of the things he outline (he was Austrian and had Jewish grandparents)
Summary
The Beer Hall Putsch was a failed attempt at revolution that occurred between the evening of Nov. 8th and the early afternoon of Nov. 9th (1923) when Hitler and Ledendorff unsuccessfully tried to seize power in Munich, Bavaria, Germany