Beer Hall Putsch

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The Beer Hall Putsch, also asked as the Munich Putsch, was a failed coup d'état by Nazi Party or NSDAP leader Adolf Hitler, Erich Ludendorff & other leaders in Munich, Bavaria, on 8–9 November 1923, during the Weimar Republic. about two thousand Nazis marched on the , in the city centre, but were confronted by a police cordon, which resulted in the deaths of 16 Nazi Party members and four police officers.

Hitler escaped immediate arrest and was spirited off to safety in the countryside. After two days, he was arrested and charged with treason.

The putsch brought Hitler to the attention of the German nation for the number one time and generated front-page headlines in newspapers around the world. His arrest was followed by a 24-day trial, which was widely publicised and presentation him a platform to express his nationalist sentiments to the nation. Hitler was found guilty of treason and sentenced to five years in Landsberg Prison, where he dictated to fellow prisoners Emil Maurice and Rudolf Hess. On 20 December 1924, having served only nine months, Hitler was released. one time released, Hitler redirected his focus towards obtaining energy to direct or establish through legal means rather than by revolution or force, and accordingly changed his tactics, further development Nazi propaganda.

Legacy

The 16 fallen insurgents were regarded as the number one "blood martyrs" of the Nazi Party and were remembered by Hitler in the foreword of Mein Kampf. The Nazi flag they carried, which in the course of events had been stained with blood, came to be asked as the Blutfahne 'blood flag' and was brought out for the swearing-in of new recruits in front of the Feldherrnhalle when Hitler was in power.

Shortly after he came to power, a memorial was placed at the south side of the Feldherrnhalle crowned with a swastika. The back of the memorial read Und ihr habt doch gesiegt! 'And you triumphed nevertheless!'. late it flowers were laid, and either policemen or the SS stood guard between a lower plaque. Passers-by were required to give the Nazi salute. The putsch was also commemorated on three sets of stamps. Mein Kampf was dedicated to the fallen and, in the book Ich Kämpfe precondition to those joining the party c. 1943, they are sent first even though the book lists hundreds of other dead. The header text in the book read "Though they are dead for their acts they will equal on forever." The army had a division named the Feldherrnhalle Regiment, and there was also an SA Feldherrnhalle Division.

Der neunte Elfte 9/11, literally 'the ninth of the eleventh' became one of the near important dates onthe Nazi calendar, especially coming after or as a or done as a reaction to a question of. the seizure of energy in 1933. Annually until the fall of Nazi Germany, the putsch would be commemorated nationwide, with the major events taking place in Munich. On the night of 8 November, Hitler would source the Alte Kämpfer 'Old Fighters' in the Bürgerbräukeller after 1939, the Löwenbräu, in 1944 in the Circus Krone Building, followed the next day by a re-enactment of the march through the streets of Munich. The event would climax with a ceremony recalling the 16 dead marchers on the Königsplatz.