Munich
(Beer Hall Putsch)
What is the munich?
The Beer Hall Putsch (also known as the Munich Putsch German: Hitler putsch, Hitler-Ludendorff-Putsch)was a failed attempt at revolution that occurred between the evening of 8th November and the early afternoon of 9th November 1923, when Nazi party leader Adolf Hitler, General quartier minister Erich Ludendorff , and other heads of the kampfbund unsuccessfully attempted to seize power in Munich. Hitler started the march to the center of Munich with 2000 men. In the ensuing confrontation with police forces, sixteen Nazis and four policemen were killed.
What is the munich?
Hitler was arrested two days later and was charged with treason.The failure of the “Beer Hall Putsch” brought Hitler his first national publicity. He was arrested and, after a 24-day trial, sentenced to five years in Landsberg fortress. (Hitler's Festungshaft sentence was the mildest of the three types of jail sentence in German law at the time.) On December 20, 1924, Hitler was released from prison having served only nine-months.
The outcome of the Beer Hall Putsch was the development and furthering of Nazi propaganda.
Reasons for the Munich
1.By 1923, the Nazi party had 55,000 members and was stronger than ever before.
2.The Weimar Republic was in crisis and about to collapse.
Reasons for the Munich
3. In September 1923,, the Weimar Republic had called off the general strike, and every German nationalist was furious with the government
4. Hitler thought he would be helped by important nationalist politicians in Bavaria.
Reasons for the Munich
5.Hitler had a huge army of storm troopers , but he knew he would lose control of them if he did not give them something to do.
6.Hitler hoped to copy Mussolini - the Italian fascist leader - who had come to power in Italy in 1922 by marching on Rome.
Result of the Munich Putsch
The Munich Putsch was a as a result:
- The Nazi party was banned , and Hitler was prevented from speaking in public until 1927.
- Hitler went to prison where he wrote 'Mein Kampf'. Millions of Germans read it, and Hitler's ideas became very well-known.
- Hitler decided that he would never come to power by revolution; he realised that he would have to use constitutional means , so he organised:
- the Hitler Youth
- propaganda campaigns
- mergers with other right-wing parties
- local branches of the party, which tried to get Nazis elected to the Reichstag
- the SS as his personal bodyguard, which was set up in 1925 It was this strategy of gaining power legitimately that eventually brought him to power.