The Beer Hall Putsch (Munich Putsch) and Mein Kampf
The Kapp Putsch, 1920
The Freikorps (Free Corps)
Mein Kampf
- In German Putsch stands for Coup d'etat
- Freikorps are asked to disband
- Treaty of Varsailles (100,000 army)
- Wolfgang Kapp march on Berlin in March 1920
- German workers save Weimar Republic - general strike
The Freikorps (Free Corps)
- An anti-revolutionary volunteer force
- Army officers set it up as the army demobilized after WWI
- Instrumental in putting down spartakists and attacking Berlin a year later
- 1923 Munich/Beer Hall Putsch
- An attempt to overthrow the government after protesting the French Occupation of the Ruhr
- Supposed to be like Mussolini's March on Rome
- It fails
- Both Hitler and Gen. Ludendorff arrested and sent to Landsberg Prison
Mein Kampf
- While in prison Hitler wrote "Mein Kampf" (My struggle) with the help of Rudolf Hess
- Lebensraum (living space)
- Anti-Semetism (hatred of jews)
- Anti-communist
- Need to re-arm and get rid of Versailles
- The rise of the Aryan Race
It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge.
- Hitler
- Hitler
FUN FACT: Hitler was a high school drop out.
Subjunctive Question
Would Hitler still have come to power if he was not throw in jail after the Beer Hal Putsch and wrote Mein Kampf?
Summary
The Beer Hall Putsch was Hitlers attempt to over throw the government that did not succeed. It did succeed in landing him in Jail though where he wrote Mein Kampf. Mein Kampf was about the future of Nazism and included his ideas such as his hatred for jews and the rise of the Aryan race.