PRESENTATION OUTLINE
RIGHT WING JOURNALIST & CIVIL SERVANT
To discard the Treaty of Versailles
To preserve the aristocracy and German nobility
To fix the economic problems
To crush the left wing movement
To restore
an autocratic system
March 12th - General Luttwitz orders his men into Berlin and occupies gov. buildings
Berlin troops facilitate the coup: "Reischwher don't fire on Reischwher"
4 a.m. - Cabinet flees to Stuttgart & calls for general strike
The majority left-wing workers support Ebert and call for a strike
Berlin crippled, the putsch ends on March 17th and the leaders flee
The industrial Berlin was largely left wing...
And were ideologically opposed to a right wing autocrat
The Strike crippled transport, communications and food supply
So the putsch lost all momentum and failed
Despite an anti-Weimar military, judiciary, intelligentsia & aristocracy
Weimar received a symbolic mandate for its survival through the general strike by the German People
Radical right wing ex-soldier and NSDAP member.
Anti-Semitic & Anti-Communist
Inspired by Mussolini's March on Rome in 1922
To take power in Berlin with support from army & courts
To fix increasing economic problems
To instate a fascist dictatorship and discard Versailles Treaty
Nov. 8th - Hitler & SA storm a Munich Beer Hall
Hitler declares a national revolution and forces Kahr and Lossow to support it
Ludendorff lets Kahr & Lassow go home and they alert the military
Nov. 9th Hitler and 3000 SA men march into Munich centre
Bavarian Police fire - 14 nazis killed
Misjudgement:
Hitler wrongly believed the local army would support him and the SA
Poor planning:
Hitler had no research on the local army or streets
Hitler served time in Landsberg Trial after a lenient trial
The Nazi Party reorganised and adopted legitimate politics
