The Munich PutschLesson starter:What do you think Adolf Hitler’s views of the Weimar government were like?

Write down your ideas.

The Munich PutschLesson starter:

Identify three problems in Germany which resulted from hyperinflation.

Today we will…• Understand the

events of the Munich Putsch

• Assess how Hitler used his trial and imprisonment to his political advantage

Background…• As we know, the Weimar

government were in a weak position

• They had experienced revolt in Berlin and had little support

• Adolf Hitler was someone who wanted to take advantage of this weak position…

• Hitler had found himself as the leader of a small party called the German Workers’ Party

• Their name changed to the NSDAP (or Nazis)

• The group planned a putsch, or takeover, which he would lead

• They would take over Bavaria first, followed by the rest of Germany

Who supported the Munich Putsch?

• General Ludendorff, WWI military hero

• The SA, or ‘brownshirts’, a paramilitary group attached to the Nazi party

SA Brownshirt

Ludendorff and Hitler

Events of the Putsch - November 19231. Hitler burst into a Beer

hall where Von Kahr, head of Bavaria was speaking and put a gun to his head

2. He announced he was taking over Bavaria

3. The next day Hitler and other Nazis marched through Munich and were arrested

The Munich PutschLesson Starter

1. Why did Hitler want General Ludendorff’s support for the Munich Putsch?

2. Why is the Munich Putsch also known as the Beer Hall Putsch?

Results of the Munich Putsch

• Hitler was arrested and tried – he used his trial to inform people of his political ideas

• 16 Nazis were killed• 3 policemen were

killed• Ludendorff was

allowed to go free• People began hearing

about ‘Herr Hitler’ through his trial/ prison time

• Hitler was jailed for 5 years but served only eight months

• It was in jail he wrote his famous Mein Kampf

‘The personification of the devil as the symbol of all evil assumes the living shape of the Jew’

Adolf HitlerMein Kampf

Today’s Task – imaginative writing

• Imagine you are Adolf Hitler in 1923. You are going to write a letter to his sister, Angela

• You should describe the events of the Munich Putsch as if Angela has no idea about it

• You must include• The aim of the Putsch• The events of the

Putsch• The results of the

Putsch

Today's date 1924

Dear Angela,I write this letter from Landsberg prison. I know you have no idea I am in prison. Let me tell you what happened…

Textbook pgs 31-33

Extension Work• Enquiry Skills practice – textbook p34

Today we will…• Understand the

events of the Munich Putsch

• Assess how Hitler used his trial and imprisonment to his political advantage