Abstract

This map shows the marching route taken by Adolf Hitler, General Erich Ludendorff, and their group of approximately 2000 Nazis and paramilitary Kampfbund members during the failed coup attempt on November 9, 1923, beginning at the Bürgerbräukeller at 12:00 noon and ending with a gun battle at around 12:45 pm in the vicinity of the Feldherrnhalle. There, four  Bavarian police officers, one bystander, and thirteen putschists were killed. Two additional Nazi putschists were shot and killed at the Reichswehr headquarters. The fallen bystander was later included with the fifteen killed putschists as part of Nazi-propagated rituals surrounding the sixteen “martyrs” or “blood witnesses” [Blutzeugen]. During the failed coup attempt, Nazi storm troopers also ransacked the offices of the Münchener Post, a newspaper close to the Social Democratic Party which reported extensively and critically on the emerging Nazi movement.

The Beer Hall Putsch (1923)

Source

Source: “Die Weimarer Republik: Drama und Magie der ersten deutschen Demokratie,” GeoEpoche. Das Magazin für Geschichte, vol. 27 (2007), p. 72. Cartography by Gabriel Moss in collaboration with Erik Jensen, 2022.