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A short time later, however, having
recognised the putsch as an amateurish
attempt, Kahr, Lossow and Seißer
ceased to feel personally threatened
and revoked the concessions they had
made. In spite of this, on 9 November
Hitler tried to go through with his plans
by staging a demonstration. After mar ching
from the Bürgerbräukeller across the
Ludwigsbrücke and along Resi denz -
straße 9 , the putschists were stopped
by Bavarian police units at the Feld -
herrn halle 11 12. In the following ex -
change of fire fifteen putschists, four
policemen and one innocent bystander
were killed. Hitler managed to escape,
but was arrested two days later.
The accused with
their defence lawyers
at Hitler’s trial in
spring 1924 (in the
centre Erich Luden -
dorff, on his right
Hitler)
The failed putsch of
November 1923, glorified
by the Nazis
as the “March on the
Feldherrnhalle”:
Heinrich Himmler
(centre, wearing
glasses) at a roadblock
in front of the
Ministry of War,
intersection of
Ludwigstraße and
Schönfeldstraße.
so in order to pre-empt him, Hitler
called for a putsch and a “national revolution”.
He declared the overthrow of
the Bavarian government and forced
Kahr and his associates, the commander
of the Bavarian Army, Otto von
Lossow, and the chief of the Bavarian
police, Hans von Seißer, to join a provisional
government.
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