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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Prologue -- Part I: The beer hall. Bürgerbräukeller -- Starving trillionaires -- Four bullets -- German Ulysses -- "Loud, raw, and screeching" -- Sparkling metropolis -- Harvard's gift -- The new regime -- "Safely delivered" -- Counter-Putsch -- Initiative -- Barbarian hordes -- Midnight in Munich -- Ordinance no. 264 -- "I am not a coward" -- Hour of decision -- In the courtyard -- Hitler's foreign legion -- Blood land -- Flight -- Hostage ordeal -- New November criminals -- Testament -- Curtains -- Trials before the trial -- Part II: The courtroom. "We will not hurt Germany" -- Defendent Hitler -- Confessions and distortions -- Behind closed doors -- The defense attacks -- A masterpiece of ignorance -- Cup of bitterness -- Dr. Frick -- First witnesses -- The prosecutor's misfortunes -- Priorities -- "Peculiar gentlemen" -- A dangerous game -- Avoiding the rubble -- Day thirteen -- A Putsch, not a Putsch -- Blow-up -- Hints -- Hitler's bodyguard takes the stand -- Volte-face -- "Good times for traitors" -- From Munich to Valhalla -- Final words -- Endings and beginnings -- Nomen est omen -- Part III: Prison. Caesar in cell 7 -- Face-to-face -- Lies, stupidity, and cowardice -- "A perpetual danger" -- Epilogue. |
| Summary |
Documents the courtroom drama that paved the way for the rise of the Nazi Party, recounting the 1923 trial of Hitler and nine associates who successfully threw off charges of high treason and used the trial to launch an improbable path to power. |
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Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945 -- Trials, litigation, etc.
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Trials (Treason) -- Germany -- Munich.
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Germany -- History -- Beer Hall Putsch, 1923.
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| Other title |
Beer Hall Putsch and the rise of Nazi Germany |
| ISBN |
9780393241693
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9780393241693
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0393241696
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