Reasons for the Munich Putsch

• Many Germans were angry at the circumstances at the end of WW1, the ‘stab in the back’ myth, reparations and the loss of colonies.
• Nationalist sentiment against the Weimar Republic was particularly strong in Bavaria, where the NSDAP. Bavarian nationalist state leaders like Gustav von Kahr sympathised with the NSDAP’s right-wing politics.
• Hitler was influenced by the example of Mussolini’s Fascist party in Italy. Mussolini had a ‘march on Rome’ to overthrow democracy in Italy in 1922
• Hyperinflation peaked in November 1923, the time set for the overthrow of the government to be attempted. The putsch hoped to build on people’s anger
• There was a perception by some Germans that the Weimar Republic was weak in the face of provocation, such as the French occupation of the Ruhr in January 1923.