What happened in the beer hall putsch in 1923?
Hitler completely read the situation of hyperinflation wrong – thinking that the economic crisis wud mean ppl and the police and army wud b in support of exremism. General major von Lossow with Gustav Ritter von Kahr (Minister President of Bavaria) and Colonel Hans Ritter von Seisser, head of the Bavarian State Police (Landespolizei) are part of the triumvirate who at this time exercised political control in Munich. 8th November 1923: Lossow and Kahr were addressing a meeting of 2,000 right wing supporters in a Munich beer hall. Hitler and stormtroppers burst in and declare a national revolution. Hitler, gun in hand forces Kahr and Lossow in to a side room where they are forced to state their support for the march on Berlin to impose a new government with Ludendorff (war hero) as commander in chief. Meanwhile Nazi stormtroopers sieze other members of the Bavarian government but fail to gain support of army in barracks. After Lossow and Kahr declare support they are allowed to leave the
