Description of the Beer Hall Putsch, an abortive coup against the Weimar Republic led by Adolf Hitler in Germany in 1923.
tried to take over their country’s government by an insurrectionary putsch. They murdered Austrian ChancellorEngelbert Dollfussin his chancellery, but the putsch failed in its main purpose. The news of it was received with consternation and disgust in the other European capitals, but the shock wa...
The first volume, entitledDie Abrechnung(“The Settlement [of Accounts],” or “Revenge”), was written in 1924 in the Bavarian fortress of Landsberg am Lech, where Hitler was imprisoned after the abortiveBeer Hall Putschof 1923. It treats the world ofHitler’s youth, theFirst World War, ...