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In Germany, Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler is sentenced to five years in prison for leading the Nazis’ unsuccessful “Beer Hall Putsch” in the German state of Bavaria.
In the early 1920s, the ranks of Hitler’s Nazi Party swelled with resentful Germans who sympathized with the party’s bitter hatred of Germany’s democratic government, leftist politics, and Jews. In November 1923, after the German government resumed the payment of war reparations to Britain and France, the Nazis launched the “Beer Hall Putsch”–their first attempt at seizing the German government by force. Hitler hoped that his nationalist revolution in Bavaria would spread to the dissatisfied German army, which in turn would bring down the government in Berlin. However, the uprising was immediately suppressed, and Hitler was arrested and sentenced to five years in prison for high treason.
Sent to Landsberg jail, he spent his time dictating his autobiography, Mein Kampf, and working on his oratorical skills. After nine months in prison, political pressure from supporters of the Nazi Party forced his release. During the next few years, Hitler and the other leading Nazis reorganized their party as a fanatical mass movement that was able to gain a majority in the German parliament–the Reichstag–by legal means in 1932. In the same year, President Paul von Hindenburg defeated a presidential bid by Hitler, but in January 1933 he appointed Hitler chancellor, hoping that the powerful Nazi leader could be brought to heel as a member of the president’s cabinet.
However, Hindenburg underestimated Hitler’s political audacity, and one of the new chancellor’s first acts was to use the burning of the Reichstag building as a pretext for calling general elections. The police under Nazi Hermann Goering suppressed much of the party’s opposition before the election, and the Nazis won a bare majority. Shortly after, Hitler took on absolute power through the Enabling Acts. In 1934, Hindenburg died and the last remnants of Germany’s democratic government were dismantled, leaving Hitler the sole master of a nation intent on war and genocide.
In the early 1920s, the ranks of Hitler’s Nazi Party swelled with resentful Germans who sympathized with the party’s bitter hatred of Germany’s democratic government, leftist politics, and Jews. In November 1923, after the German government resumed the payment of war reparations to Britain and France, the Nazis launched the “Beer Hall Putsch”–their first attempt at seizing the German government by force. Hitler hoped that his nationalist revolution in Bavaria would spread to the dissatisfied German army, which in turn would bring down the government in Berlin. However, the uprising was immediately suppressed, and Hitler was arrested and sentenced to five years in prison for high treason.
Sent to Landsberg jail, he spent his time dictating his autobiography, Mein Kampf, and working on his oratorical skills. After nine months in prison, political pressure from supporters of the Nazi Party forced his release. During the next few years, Hitler and the other leading Nazis reorganized their party as a fanatical mass movement that was able to gain a majority in the German parliament–the Reichstag–by legal means in 1932. In the same year, President Paul von Hindenburg defeated a presidential bid by Hitler, but in January 1933 he appointed Hitler chancellor, hoping that the powerful Nazi leader could be brought to heel as a member of the president’s cabinet.
However, Hindenburg underestimated Hitler’s political audacity, and one of the new chancellor’s first acts was to use the burning of the Reichstag building as a pretext for calling general elections. The police under Nazi Hermann Goering suppressed much of the party’s opposition before the election, and the Nazis won a bare majority. Shortly after, Hitler took on absolute power through the Enabling Acts. In 1934, Hindenburg died and the last remnants of Germany’s democratic government were dismantled, leaving Hitler the sole master of a nation intent on war and genocide.
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On This Day - 8 November 1923 - The Beer Hall Putsch
The date, the 8th of November, 1923 On this day Adolf Hitler attempted to overthrow the German government. Adolf Hitler, the leader of the National Socialist...
Thanks for letting us know TSgt Joe C. that on April 1, 1924 Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler was sentenced to five years in prison for leading the Nazis’ unsuccessful “Beer Hall Putsch” in the German state of Bavaria.
Of course this sentence rallied his supporters and Hitler received the minimum sentence for high treason, five years’ imprisonment, but with the stipulation that the further execution of the sentence should be suspended after a few months.
Background from britannica.com/event/Beer-Hall-Putsch
"The conflict between Bavaria and Berlin assumed critical proportions when Gustav Stresemann, then Reich chancellor, gave up the passive resistance to the Ruhr occupation. There was a great outcry in Bavaria, which induced Knilling to appoint (without previous consultation with the Reich authorities) Kahr as Bavarian state commissioner (Generalstaatskommissar) with dictatorial powers. The Reich government was compelled to counter with a declaration of a general state of emergency. It rightly mistrusted the Kahr-Knilling policy of trying to collaborate with the extreme right-wing groups that had found refuge in Bavaria. Kahr now prompted the local Reich army commander, Gen. Otto von Lossow, to refuse to carry out an order of his superiors in Berlin to take measures against the Nazi Party, a violent right-wing political party that had exploded into prominence under the leadership of Adolf Hitler. The Bavarian government also attempted to detach the army corps in Bavaria from its allegiance to the Reich by assuming authority over it.
Ludendorff, a World War I general who had spent the postwar years propagating the myth that his armies had been “stabbed in the back” by German politicians, had participated in the Kapp Putsch and subsequently established himself in Bavaria. There he became associated with the National Socialist movement, and he and Hitler quickly recognized that the time for another coup attempt could be at hand. Hitler’s utter contempt for the Bavarian authorities was eclipsed only by his loathing of the “November criminals”—the architects of the Treaty of Versailles—whom he associated with the leadership in Berlin. On November 8, 1923, Hitler and Ludendorff struck in Munich. Along with hundreds of armed paramilitary Brownshirts (SA), they marched on a meeting at the Bürgerbräukeller (beer cellar) where they seized Kahr, Lossow, and Munich police chief Hans, Ritter von Seisser. In a dramatic scene, Hitler forced these men to support his proclamation of a national revolution and called upon them to follow him to Berlin on the model of Benito Mussolini’s March on Rome of the preceding year. However, as soon as Hitler’s prisoners were free, they disowned him.
Belatedly, energetic measures were taken to deal with Hitler and Ludendorff. Their armed procession through Munich on the following day ended ignominiously. During a march toward the Marienplatz, in the city centre, the approximately 3,000 Nazis were met by a fusillade of gunfire from a police cordon. Fourteen Nazis were killed, and four policemen died when the Nazis returned fire. Two other Nazis were killed elsewhere in the city. Hitler injured his arm as he fled the scene, possibly as he was being bundled into a car, and his lieutenant Hermann Göring was shot in the groin. SA chief Ernst Röhm, who had occupied the war ministry with a small force, recognized the futility of continuing the operation and surrendered. The rebels, on thus learning that the government was prepared to counteract them forcibly, then abandoned the project. Hitler went into hiding, but he was found and arrested two days later.
The subsequent trials were a farce, even by the standards of a Bavarian government that was at least somewhat sympathetic to the Nazi cause. Hitler and his coconspirators should have been tried in the supreme Reich court, but the Bavarian government succeeded in retaining the right of emergency jurisdiction just long enough to ensure that the case would come up in a Bavarian people’s court. Ludendorff, largely because of his status as a war hero, was acquitted. Hitler received the minimum sentence for high treason, five years’ imprisonment, but with the stipulation that the further execution of the sentence should be suspended after a few months. He actually served about nine months in the fortress of Landsberg, where he wrote much of his testamentary Mein Kampf (“My Struggle”). The abortive putsch gave Hitler worldwide fame but led him to decide to achieve power by legal means. Hitler took his revenge against Kahr when he had him murdered during the Night of the Long Knives (June 30, 1934)."
8 November 1923 - The Beer Hall Putsch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTFerHrvm18
FYI COL Mikel J. Burroughs LTC Stephen C. LTC Orlando Illi Lt Col Charlie Brown Maj Bill Smith, Ph.D. Maj William W. "Bill" Price CPT Jack Durish Capt Tom Brown MSG Andrew White SFC William Farrell SGT (Join to see) Sgt Albert Castro SSG David Andrews Sgt Randy Wilber Sgt John H. CPL Dave Hoover SGT Mark Halmrast SPC Margaret Higgins SrA Christopher Wright
Of course this sentence rallied his supporters and Hitler received the minimum sentence for high treason, five years’ imprisonment, but with the stipulation that the further execution of the sentence should be suspended after a few months.
Background from britannica.com/event/Beer-Hall-Putsch
"The conflict between Bavaria and Berlin assumed critical proportions when Gustav Stresemann, then Reich chancellor, gave up the passive resistance to the Ruhr occupation. There was a great outcry in Bavaria, which induced Knilling to appoint (without previous consultation with the Reich authorities) Kahr as Bavarian state commissioner (Generalstaatskommissar) with dictatorial powers. The Reich government was compelled to counter with a declaration of a general state of emergency. It rightly mistrusted the Kahr-Knilling policy of trying to collaborate with the extreme right-wing groups that had found refuge in Bavaria. Kahr now prompted the local Reich army commander, Gen. Otto von Lossow, to refuse to carry out an order of his superiors in Berlin to take measures against the Nazi Party, a violent right-wing political party that had exploded into prominence under the leadership of Adolf Hitler. The Bavarian government also attempted to detach the army corps in Bavaria from its allegiance to the Reich by assuming authority over it.
Ludendorff, a World War I general who had spent the postwar years propagating the myth that his armies had been “stabbed in the back” by German politicians, had participated in the Kapp Putsch and subsequently established himself in Bavaria. There he became associated with the National Socialist movement, and he and Hitler quickly recognized that the time for another coup attempt could be at hand. Hitler’s utter contempt for the Bavarian authorities was eclipsed only by his loathing of the “November criminals”—the architects of the Treaty of Versailles—whom he associated with the leadership in Berlin. On November 8, 1923, Hitler and Ludendorff struck in Munich. Along with hundreds of armed paramilitary Brownshirts (SA), they marched on a meeting at the Bürgerbräukeller (beer cellar) where they seized Kahr, Lossow, and Munich police chief Hans, Ritter von Seisser. In a dramatic scene, Hitler forced these men to support his proclamation of a national revolution and called upon them to follow him to Berlin on the model of Benito Mussolini’s March on Rome of the preceding year. However, as soon as Hitler’s prisoners were free, they disowned him.
Belatedly, energetic measures were taken to deal with Hitler and Ludendorff. Their armed procession through Munich on the following day ended ignominiously. During a march toward the Marienplatz, in the city centre, the approximately 3,000 Nazis were met by a fusillade of gunfire from a police cordon. Fourteen Nazis were killed, and four policemen died when the Nazis returned fire. Two other Nazis were killed elsewhere in the city. Hitler injured his arm as he fled the scene, possibly as he was being bundled into a car, and his lieutenant Hermann Göring was shot in the groin. SA chief Ernst Röhm, who had occupied the war ministry with a small force, recognized the futility of continuing the operation and surrendered. The rebels, on thus learning that the government was prepared to counteract them forcibly, then abandoned the project. Hitler went into hiding, but he was found and arrested two days later.
The subsequent trials were a farce, even by the standards of a Bavarian government that was at least somewhat sympathetic to the Nazi cause. Hitler and his coconspirators should have been tried in the supreme Reich court, but the Bavarian government succeeded in retaining the right of emergency jurisdiction just long enough to ensure that the case would come up in a Bavarian people’s court. Ludendorff, largely because of his status as a war hero, was acquitted. Hitler received the minimum sentence for high treason, five years’ imprisonment, but with the stipulation that the further execution of the sentence should be suspended after a few months. He actually served about nine months in the fortress of Landsberg, where he wrote much of his testamentary Mein Kampf (“My Struggle”). The abortive putsch gave Hitler worldwide fame but led him to decide to achieve power by legal means. Hitler took his revenge against Kahr when he had him murdered during the Night of the Long Knives (June 30, 1934)."
8 November 1923 - The Beer Hall Putsch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTFerHrvm18
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