Founding of the Nazi Party and the Beer Hall Putsch The Nazi Party was founded as the German Workers’ Party byAnton Drexler, aMunichlocksmith, in 1919. Hitler attended one of its meetings that year, and before long his energy and oratorical skills would enable him to take over the party,...
News reached Nazi leadership that same day in Munich, where they were gathered to celebrate the anniversary of the Beer Hall Putsch. At the meeting that evening, Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels announced that "the Fuhrer has decided that... demonstrations should not be prepared or organiz...
1923Beer Hall Putsch. There, Minister ofPropagandaJoseph Goebbels, after conferring with Hitler, harangued a gathering of old storm troopers, urging violent reprisals staged to appear as “spontaneous demonstrations.” Telephone orders from Munich triggered pogroms throughout Germany, which then included...