The Beer Hall Putsch: Hitler's First Attempt to Seize Power 

This is definitely my favorite channel of Simons. It may not be his most popular outlet, but it's consistently interesting and more in depth than most. Thank you warographics crew.

Hitler escaled death twice in the Beer Hall Putsch. First time was from a bullet that narrowly missed him and the second time was from him getting off easy during sentencing instead of getting a death penalty for his attempted rebellion.

"So many people forget that the first country the Nazis invaded was their own."- Dr. Abraham Erskine, Captain America: The First Avenger.

And the man in the back said "everyone attack!" and it turned into a beer hall putsch!

It's almost like treating fascists with kid gloves is a bad idea.

Can you guys possibly do a warographics on the soviet storming of china in 1945?

Thanks for doing this one Simon, is also good that you did it this year since it’s the 100th anniversary of the Putsch in November

Something to remember is that Hitler got into the German (Bavarian) army due to an administrative error by the Bavarian government, especially when you look at the fact that he failed a medical for the Austrian Army and thus should have been deported back to Austria.

The one issue that plagued the Weimar Republic from the beginning was that they didn't start from the ground up but rather as a continuation of the previous monarchical government. So many judges and police officers retained their positions, and they were very far-right and secretly undermined public state policies. This clearly played in favor of people like Hitler, who enjoyed free reins. Everything was just a slap on the wrist to give the impression of seriousness, but they secretly applauded them for trying.

My grand father watched it happen When the bullets went flying He was later conscripted into the Volkstrumm

Not sure if this would be Warographics or Biographics or whatever, but I'd be interested in a video on the Bone Wars (the hyper aggressive paleontology competition between one time friends Othniel Marsh and Edward Cope that resulted in most of the really popular dinosaurs being discovered)

My mother's family was one of the bakers in Landsberg Germany for hundreds of years. It's how they made it through the wars not just the World Wars. Hundreds of years of Wars. Regardless, I was born in Atlanta Ga USA 🇺🇸. Just interesting Hitler was kept there. Should never have let him out.

Thank you very much Simon. My focus as a history major was Munich immediately after WWI so I found this video particularly interesting.

Great video. Well thought out and presented. Well done

2:10 - Chapter 1 - Hitler rising 10:25 - Chapter 2 - The putsch 15:35 - Chapter 3 - The aftermath 20:05 - Chapter 4 - Conclusion

I feel like I know Simon better than half my friends at this point; appreciate all the content you and your writers make dude; it’s always entertaining and great to learn along side y’all. Sending love and well wishes from Houston, Tx ❤

This is the best explanation of the Putsch that I think I have ever heard. Thank you for sharing it.

Thank you for this. Lot's of points I didn't know. Cheers, Simon.

Video recommendation: Coverage of the recent/current French Military intervention in Mali.

Very informative. Most sources usually glance over this subject in a sentence or two when speaking of post WW1 and the Republic. Very well done.

I find the interwar years fascinating, such a lot happened and history could easily have been so different. The run up to WW2 is interesting too, all the political maneuvers.

This is such a fascinating period of history

Thought you’d said “German Casserole System.” 😋

It would honestly be interesting to hear about various Weimar era paramilitary groups such as The Freikorps and their left wing and other adversaries.

100 years ago tonight was the beginning of the putsch. This reminds us that democracy in Germany and the world cannot be taken for granted.

This video enraged Adolf's father, who punished him severely.

Simon. I’d love to see a warographics on the Kashmir border dispute between India/Pakistan or the India-China border dispute. r/ Dylan

Hi Simon can you please do a video Sir Nicholas George Winton MBE was named a British Hero of the Holocaust by the British Government. Winton was awarded the Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Fourth Class, by the Czech President Václav Havel in 1998. he was a British humanitarian who helped to rescue jewish children who were at risk from Nazi Germany just months before the start of World War II he saved 669 children all of them would’ve probably have been killed by the Nazis if he hadn’t got them out please do a video on this man thank you Paul.

Sounds very relevant today.

Since 1994, a commemorative plaque embedded in the pavement in front of the Feldherrnhalle contains the names of the four Bavarian policemen who died in the fight against the Nazis. The plaque read: 'To the members of the Bavarian Police, who gave their lives opposing the National Socialist coup on 9 November 1923:...'

If you study German society during the Weimar you'll see many of the social upheavals we see today. Trans rights, trans clinics, gay rights, etc. The book burning was predominantly books concerned with those topics. The clinics were run by jews, the books were by jews. (Magnus Hirschfeld being the most prominent) There was a reason why Hitler targeted Jews, he saw them as undermining the social fabric of Germany. But research it yourself, everyone should.

I just woke up, now I want a BEER. Am I an alcoholic??

Good episode for the upcoming 100th anniversary of the "Beer Hall Putsch." I feel you should have spent a little more time on the "blood flag" or blutfahne the most "sacred relic" of the NAZI Party, last seen in November/December 1944 if found it would be most likely the most important"find" for the Third Reich era especially if found with it's flag pole and ornate silver pole top However l fear it was most likely hidden/buried or destroyed less it "fall" into enemy hands For private collectors this would be a "crowning" achievement or if a museum obtained it a priceless object for historical study

November 9th 2023 will mark the hundredth anniversary of the putsch. There's going to be a number of people who will be at the Feldherrenhalle on the morning of November 9th to mark the occasion.

Anyone who wants a good background to this story could do a lot worse than to read Mark Jones' book _'1923'._ I was released this year and is an easy read that puts a lot of international perspective on this. The invasion of the Ruhr by the French and Belgians is a critical factor in all of this, from the resentment of invading troops by the Germans, especially the nationalists who blamed the republic, to the violence it spawned and the economic chaos it caused. Knowing about this is essential to understanding the Nazis and why they became so prominent.

Are you still making content for Biographics?

Great Video simon

You should do a video on the Germans that pushed back, like Otto Wels.

0:20: 🇩🇪 The Weimar Republic was a complex time in German history, with a battle for Germany's soul, economic hardship, rising extremism, and Hitler's rise to power. 3:29: 💣 The Treaty of Versailles imposed severe terms on Germany, including disarmament, territorial losses, and financial reparations. 6:12: 📜 Hitler's rise to power and the growth of the Nazi party in Germany during the early 1920s. 9:13: 📜 Hitler and his top lieutenants hatched a plan to take advantage of Germany's chaotic state and overthrow the government. 12:24: 📰 Hitler's failed coup in Munich in 1923. 15:06: 💥 Hitler is arrested and put on trial for high treason in November 1923. 18:14: 📚 The aftermath of the failed Beer Hall Putsch led Hitler and the Nazi party to rethink their approach to gaining power. Recap by Tammy AI

I was at the Odeonsplatz 100 years _to the day_ after it happened.

The music video & the song “Deutschland” by Rammstein is one of the most beautiful pieces of art I have ever seen. It also speaks as to the crisis of identity that Germany has had even before WWI & II. You go through the entire history of the German people in about 6 minutes. It’s absolutely breathtaking!

Narrator talks too fast. What’s the hurry? It makes it hard to listen to.

Well made video, however one detail that is iffy: It is mostly assumed in the research literature that the killing of von Kahr in 1934 did not take place at the order of Hitler, but without his knowledge and against his will as an autonomous act committed by lower ranking elements of the NSDAP in Munich. At least there are a number of witness reports that Hitler was quite incensed and disgruntled when he got the news that Kahr had been shot, 'cause he felt that the killing of a powerless septogenerian retiree, seemingly as an act of petty revenge at his instigation, made him look vindictive and pathetic in the eyes of the world. Therefore the researches on the matter mostly assume nowadays that people in Munich had Kahr arrested on their own bat, without Hitler being involved in the decision, on June 30 1934 and that either the commandant of Dachau Concentration Camp acting on his own authority had Kahr shot in the bunker of Camp (where he was killed) or the guard who shot him (Johann Kantschuster), decided to kill him on his own accord, acting out of the general hatred that was inculcated into the rank and file of the SS for the "traitor" of 1923 by the propaganda. Or some high-ranking Munich official like Emil Maurice, Christian Weber or Adolf Wagner instructed the SS to arrest and dispatch of Kahr using the favorable opportunity of the events of the day. Hitler on his part is generally assumed ot have been mostly focussed on the SA and the conspirators around Papen during that day and not have been interest in all the minor and powerless people who murdered along the way as a by-product of the the removal of all the remaining rivals to the absolute power he sought to establish for himself through thr purge of the day.

Simon this is epic

Can you please discuss Imperial Japan,and the world-wide post war amnesia of their crimes??

Nice, the beer hall putsch is a good one 👍🏼 Should do one about Passchendaele Ridge World War I

If you close your eyes does it feel like nothing changed at all

German with the Treaty of Versaille: UNFAIR!!!!! Germany with the Treaty of Brest Litovsk: you deserve to pay for our losses. Deal with it.

Everyone who wants to know better the times in Munich around that time and how it became the „Capital of the Movement“ - read Lion Feuchtwanger‘s novel „Success“. Great book.

100 years ago to this day.

is that Simon really checking if he put up the right amount of fingers @ 16:05

best part of the video was telling us that we could go search for the next video instead of carding it or end screening it

Thank you! Would you consider a piece on the compartiative investments in Germany, post ww1 & post ww2? As the $ invested in Germany during the interwars years was comparable. What happened? You yourself have put together a piece on Germans investment into recreational communities. While the rest of the world was in the depression.

Another great Video. As you have covered many neutral nations in Europe and them joining or possibly joining NATO, could you make a Video about Austria and its neutrality? As an Austrian I would really appreciate a deep dive into this complicated topic. Keep up the great work!

Babe wake up new Simon Channel just dropped

Actually the Allies never expected to Germany to pay the reparations in full, and when the armistice was signed it didn’t even include a number. They wanted to show their domestic populations that Germany was being punished but no one in power seriously expected full payment from Germany

Woohoo!! Finally in the first minute!!

We only know about Prigozhin’s putsch.

I wonder what would have happened if Hitler pulled it off,

The parallels between the rise of Nazism in Germany a century ago and the rise of MAGAism in the U.S. today are startling. While history may not be precisely repeating itself, it is rhyming in a most familiar and troubling fashion.

My grandfather’s family left Germany for the US towards the end of the Weimar Republic. After WWI they went from middle class to extreme poverty.

Hitler has only got 1 ball, Goering has 2 but very small. Himmler is kinda similar but poor Goebbells has no balls at all.

And imagine that something similar happened in USA and Brazil in recent years

If the beer is so great in Germany why didn't they just get pissed !

04:12 - Holy F*ck! That is an insane retribution payment! 😳 💵 I wasn't aware until now, the Weinmar Republic had it that bad!

My family, being European (Austrian/Russian Jews,) were directly involved in this beginning. Luckily they fled to Britain before it got too bad, but many relatives weren’t so lucky.

They certainly gotten fired up.

the "untold story"? maybe in GB or the US. In Germany pupils are taught about the "Hitler Putsch" at school. I think the Versailles Treaty and its consequences deserves a video on its own. And as far as I know, Germany paid the last reparations for WWI in 2010.

Hey guys. Does someone know rusty cage? He made a video about Simon whistler 😂

Love your videos! If you ever do a Fallujah or Marjah battle story I’d love to hear it. I participated in both and would like to hear a nonbias view. God bless

So, it all revolved around the beer. Ah Germany.

Use Ecosia they are a search engine that plants trees......

Good thing letting a traitor off easy and even re-electing them would never be allowed... Right? 😃😃

The Weimar Republic might not have been a long-lasting state, yet it still managed to exist for a longer time than the Third Reich. And who knows what might have become of it if the Munich Police had just aimed a little better...

Over it's 14-year existence the Weimar Republic had 40 political parties

This is pretty random and not very accurate. I’ll start with the smallest problem: Hitler’s party membership number. Number 7 is a myth. From memory, it was 6XX or something. Yes, the party was small but not that small. That minor point out of the way, there are some background things that need to be settled. The Weimar Republik is mostly thought of as a chaotic time. Except for the hyperinflation period between 1920 and 1922, the Weimar Republik did a much better job of recovering from WWI than most people realise. And this factor was directly linked to the rise, fall and eventual rise again of the Nazis. Hitler’s popularity increased when things were bad - like the hyperinflation period - and waned during periods of prosperity. From the end of hyperinflation to the Wall St Crash in 1929, the Weimar economy did very well. So to characterise it as a state of chaos, as many do, would not be completely accurate. Secondly - and this was one of the main things Hitler was able to capitalise on - Bavaria was unique in German politics at the time. It was the only environment where he would or could have succeeded. Following the defeat in WWI, King Ludwig III had fled Bavaria and the power vacuum that followed produced a series of unstable governments and assassinations that resulted in the left wing Bavarian Soviet Republic. This lasted less than a month before it was violently overthrown by the _Freikorps,_ mostly made up of ex-soldiers and right wing loyalists. This was important because Hitler’s anti-Bolshevik rhetoric was centred around public fears of another government that, as they saw it, could fall under the influence of the USSR, itself currently immersed in a civil war that would kill 10 million people. So to those who say that Hitler was just a gunshot away from never becoming the Fuehrer, it should be pointed out that the rise of Hitler could not have happened anywhere else but Bavaria and especially Munich. Hitler was able to capitalise on people’s fears and prejudices in such a way that his appeal is much easier to understand. The NSDAP, despite their name, became a force against socialism. Their platform was centred around an anti-socialist, anti-Bolshevik, anti immigration, anti-Semitic stance. And they were, at their core, also anti-democratic. This is why the Beer Hall Putsch happened. It’s not enough to just say that things were confused and that there were a lot of different parties and interests involved. We’ve got the ‘how’ but the ‘why’ was missing.

Last time I was this early, failed coups were happening in European countries Oh wait, they still are

You forget that the US fought for a better more lenient deal for Germany. More than once.

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Remember kids, if you give fascists an inch they take the Sudetenland.

6:44. I thought Germany's largest state was Prussia during that time.

„You wrote a little book, - got em fired up, had a beer hall putsch - got em fired up, when your bunker started gettin fired up - you put a gun in your mouth an fired up“ -Darth Vader

Do more haiti videos please

The American version happened on January 6th.

Played outstanding by Robbie Carlyle in Hitler Rise of Evil.

For everybody whinging about Versailles and St.Germain should look at the Best-Litovsk treaty that Germany gave to Russia. Yes, it was severe, but not unique in it's severity.

In the Treaty of Frankfurt (1871), Germany had forced France to pay large reparation sums, and give them Alsace-Lorraine. The terms were severe: France was charged a war indemnity of five Billion francs plus the cost of maintaining a German occupation army in eastern France until the indemnity was paid. The basic idea on the German side was that the French should be "smashed to the ground so they couldn't recover for 100 years" - basically the same attitude the French displayed in 1918/1919 after World War I. The concept of a "punishing peace" gained traction in those days. In the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (1918), Germany imposed terms that were far harsher than the ToV on Russia. (took 89% of their coal mines; 54% of their industry). The treaty marked Russia's final withdrawal from World War I and resulted in Russia losing major territorial holdings. In the treaty, Bolshevik Russia ceded the Baltic States to Germany; they were meant to become German vassal states under German princelings. It would be hypocritical to consider the 1919 ToV harsh, as the Germans would be operating on a double standard.

Imagine if they’d have just let him into art school….

I think I have a transcript from the trial. Defendant: The radical left democrats instigated a witch hunt like we’ve never seen before in history. The putsch, you ready? That putsch was a perfect meeting. And so on like that.

putsch putsch in the Busch! Lol

Does he think gun to the head is a pinkie swear?

its been 100 years, time to get over it

Reminds me of the January 6 capitol riots.

So they really did wing it lmao

Mein Kampf my ass. He didn't really struggle at all. I wouldn't call spending 8 short months in a comfortable prison where he got a chance to raise his popularity a "struggle".

I still have no idea why the USA was involved in the treaty of Versailles considering they did sweet bugger all in World War One they come into the war and Pershing wouldn’t let them fight until it was all but over after the Australians and the Scot’s had broken the backs of the German forces the USA come in and cleaned up the dregs yet they somehow had a say

Can you do a show about what if Hitler never came to power to and how or if that changes WW2

I’m a little more than half German, and more of my German ancestors came from Bavaria than any other part of Germany. Many of them came from near Munich. It’s always cool to see how much of an impact my people have had on world history, so if you enjoy hearing about the Nazis rise to power, all I can say is, you’re welcome.

Ive always been shocked by how Hitler climbed to the top of Germany despite being a complete moron.

Otherwise known as "Jan. 6th, Version 1.0"