The Beer Hall Putsch (Munich Putsch) and Mein Kampf
*1923 Munich/Beer Hall Putsch
*They all met in a beer hall - meeting areas in the 20's
*Beginning of the Nationalists socialists party
*An attempt to overthrow the government (weimar republic) after protesting the French Occupation of the Ruhr
*Lead by Hitler - Great speaker
*Fires up the drunken crowd
*Should have just done it then because on 1 in 6 people came back
*Supposed to be like Mussolini's March on Rome
*It fails
*Both Hitler and Gen. Ludendorff arrested and sent to Landsberg prison
*Hitler spends the next year and a half in prison
*Landsberg prison is like a palace, no one is guarding him
*The people who are prosecuting him sympathize with him because they thought it was a good attempt at overthrowing the government and they agreed with him
*Give Hitler a scribe and he writes a book
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-Communist
*Need to re-arm and get rid of the treaty of Versailles
*The rise of the Aryan Race
*Contradiction because he looks nothing like his superior race
-Had one grandparent who was jewish
-Was also Austrian yet was doing it all for Germany
*They all met in a beer hall - meeting areas in the 20's
*Beginning of the Nationalists socialists party
*An attempt to overthrow the government (weimar republic) after protesting the French Occupation of the Ruhr
*Lead by Hitler - Great speaker
*Fires up the drunken crowd
*Should have just done it then because on 1 in 6 people came back
*Supposed to be like Mussolini's March on Rome
*It fails
*Both Hitler and Gen. Ludendorff arrested and sent to Landsberg prison
*Hitler spends the next year and a half in prison
*Landsberg prison is like a palace, no one is guarding him
*The people who are prosecuting him sympathize with him because they thought it was a good attempt at overthrowing the government and they agreed with him
*Give Hitler a scribe and he writes a book
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-Communist
*Need to re-arm and get rid of the treaty of Versailles
*The rise of the Aryan Race
*Contradiction because he looks nothing like his superior race
-Had one grandparent who was jewish
-Was also Austrian yet was doing it all for Germany
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Summary
The beer hall would have succeeded if Hitler had gotten everyone to march the building on that same night instead of telling them to meet back the next morning.