Hitler's Beer Hall Putsch fails
November 8, 1923
In a Munich beer hall Adolf Hitler fired a pistol at the ceiling and declared a national revolution. The next day his Brownshirts marched into central Munich and the Bavarian police shot them down. Sixteen Nazis died. Hitler got five years, served nine months, and used the time to write Mein Kampf in a comfortable cell.
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