The Munich Putsch

• The Munich Putsch, a Nazi uprising, occurred in 1923.
• On the night of 8 November 1923, Hitler and 600 stormtroopers burst into a meeting that Kahr and Lossow were holding at the local Beer Hall.
• The next day, 9 November 1923, Hitler and his Nazis went into Munich on what they thought would be a triumphal march to take power. There was a short scuffle in which the police killed 16 Nazis. Hitler fled, but was arrested two days later.
• The Munich Putsch was a failure. As a result, the Nazi party was banned, and Hitler was prevented from speaking in public until 1927. Hitler went to prison, where he wrote Mein Kampf. Hitler decided that he would never come to power by revolution. He realised that he would have to use constitutional means, so he organised: propaganda campaigns, mergers with other right-wing parties, local branches of the party, which tried to get Nazis elected to the Reichstag and the SS as his personal bodyguard, which was set up in 1925.