Beer Hall Putsch

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The Beer Hall Putsch was a failed 1923 coup attempt by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in Munich that, despite its collapse, helped propel Hitler to national prominence in Germany.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf Nazi Party event
coup attempt
failed coup
historical event
aimedAt overthrowing the Weimar Republic
seizing power in Munich
alsoKnownAs Hitler Putsch
Hitler-Ludendorff-Putsch
Munich Putsch
cause economic crisis in Germany after World War I
resentment of the Treaty of Versailles
right-wing opposition to the Weimar Republic
chronology occurred before the Nazi seizure of power in 1933
commemoratedBy Nazi Party marches in Munich
Nazi propaganda portraying fallen putschists as martyrs
country Germany
endDate 1923-11-09
followedBy Hitler's imprisonment in Landsberg Prison
trial of Adolf Hitler in 1924
writing of Mein Kampf
hasParticipant Adolf Hitler
Erich Ludendorff
Ernst Röhm
Gustav von Kahr
Hans von Seisser
Heinrich Himmler
Hermann Göring
Otto von Lossow
Rudolf Hess
location Bavaria
Bürgerbräukeller beer hall
Munich
numberOfDeaths 16 Nazi Party members
4 policemen
opposedBy Bavarian government
Bavarian police
Reichswehr
organisedBy Adolf Hitler
Nazi Party
Sturmabteilung
partOf history of the Weimar Republic
interwar history of Germany
result arrest of Adolf Hitler
ban of the Nazi Party
failure
suppression of the putsch by police
significance increased national prominence of Adolf Hitler
turning point in Nazi Party strategy toward legal seizure of power
startDate 1923-11-08


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