Eight Months For Insurrection?
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6 min readJul 20, 2021
In 1923, Adolf Hitler attempted what has since become known as the Beer Hall Putsch, a failed coup in the small city of Munich, Germany. Hitler was sentenced to five years in prison — it was here he dictated what became the first volume of Mein Kampf (German for My Struggle) to his future deputy Rudolf Hess — but was released early in 1924.