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The Beer Hall Putsch, also known as the Munich Putsch, [1] [note 1] was a failed coup d'état by Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler, Generalquartiermeister Erich Ludendorff and other Kampfbund leaders in Munich, Bavaria, on 8–9 November 1923, during the Weimar Republic.
Landsberg Prison, which is in the town's western outskirts, was completed in 1910. The facility was designed with an Art Nouveau frontage by Hugo von Höfl [].Within its walls, the four brick-built cell blocks were constructed in a cross-shape orientation.
Hitler later initiated a purge of these elements and reaffirmed the Nazi Party's pro-business stance. By 1922 Hitler's control over the party was unchallenged, and he attempted a coup, the Beer Hall Putsch, in Bavaria one year later. After the coup's failure, Hitler was arrested and put on trial.
Hitler was arrested and sentenced to five years in prison for high treason, the minimum sentence for the charge. He served less than eight months in a comfortable cell, receiving a daily stream of visitors until his release on 20 December 1924. While in jail Hitler dictated Mein Kampf, which laid out his ideas and future policies. Hitler ...
Although Hitler is sentenced to 5 years in Landsberg Prison and the Nazi Party is briefly proscribed, Hitler gains public notice for the first time. [11] 18 July 1925 Adolf Hitler publishes Mein Kampf. 24 October 1929 The Wall Street Crash of 1929 occurs, beginning the Great Depression and allowing Hitler to gain support. [7] 1931
Adolf Hitler [a] (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 until his suicide in 1945. He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party, [c] becoming the chancellor in 1933 and then taking the title of Führer und Reichskanzler in 1934.
Adolf Hitler, imprisoned for a month in 1922 for assaulting Otto Ballerstedt. Ernst Röhm was imprisoned before his execution by Hitler during the Night of the Long Knives. The SA-Stabschef (Chief of Staff), he was shot on 1 July 1934 in cell 70. [1]
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