Memorializing the Beer Hall Putsch, November, 1938
Hitler speaks in Munich on the 15th anniversary of the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch, in which Hitler and other Nazi party members attempted to overthrow the German government. Hitler, jailed for a year for his part in the coup attempt, was the master of swaying large crowds. "I was carried on the wave of the enthusiasm which ... bore the speaker along from sentence to sentence," chief Nazi architect, Albert Speer, recalled of one Nazi rally.
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