WEBVTT - Hitler's Munich Beer Hall Putsch, Part 2 0:00:03.160 --> 0:00:13.720 Mama, what is the Chicken Fell draft draft really? Giraffe? Giraffe, 0:00:14.120 --> 0:00:16.040 You're not gonna get it all right. This makes sure 0:00:16.079 --> 0:00:18.079 you know the big stuff, like making sure your kids 0:00:18.079 --> 0:00:20.520 are buckled correctly in the right seat for their agent's eyes. 0:00:20.720 --> 0:00:24.640 Get it right. Visits n hd S a dot gov 0:00:25.040 --> 0:00:27.560 slash the Right Seat brought to you by the National 0:00:27.640 --> 0:00:31.800 Highway Traffic Safety Administration in the AD Council. On April four, 0:00:33.280 --> 0:00:35.720 Dr Martin Luther King was shot and killed in Memphis. 0:00:36.040 --> 0:00:39.720 A petty criminal named James Earl Ray was arrested. Case 0:00:39.840 --> 0:00:45.600 closed right. James eyl Ray was upon for the official story. 0:00:46.000 --> 0:00:48.960 Some of the evidence, as far as I was concerned, 0:00:48.960 --> 0:00:53.000 did not match the circumstances. This is the MLK tapes. 0:00:53.360 --> 0:00:56.280 The first episodes are available now. Listen on the I 0:00:56.440 --> 0:00:59.600 Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your 0:00:59.600 --> 0:01:04.840 podcast us. What Girls in the Forest, our imagination and 0:01:05.319 --> 0:01:08.839 our family bonds. The forest is closer than you think. 0:01:09.200 --> 0:01:11.920 Find a forest near you and discover the Fort dot 0:01:12.080 --> 0:01:14.880 org brought to you by the United States Fourth Service 0:01:14.959 --> 0:01:24.160 and the AD Council. Still Hitler, I'm yeah, man um 0:01:24.200 --> 0:01:26.480 that this is part two of our of our episodes 0:01:27.800 --> 0:01:31.000 because it's a Hitler episode. You gotta give the give 0:01:31.080 --> 0:01:33.200 red meat to the base. It's like one of the 0:01:33.240 --> 0:01:36.479 only episodes were likeness flies. So like, yeah, you want 0:01:36.520 --> 0:01:38.679 to do it one more time? It's five. I did 0:01:38.720 --> 0:01:42.360 it with two times. Is enough? My next Hitler episode 0:01:42.560 --> 0:01:46.679 I give Robert Richard. He's like, no, welcome back to 0:01:46.880 --> 0:01:50.200 Behind the Insurrections. This is part three. We had an 0:01:50.240 --> 0:01:52.559 episode started off with an episode on the march on Room. 0:01:52.960 --> 0:01:54.920 Now we're doing a two parter. This is part two 0:01:54.920 --> 0:01:57.840 of our two parter on Hitler's Munich beer Hall putsch 0:01:58.440 --> 0:02:01.080 Um and then we will continue with other fascist attempts 0:02:01.120 --> 0:02:03.920 to seize power and talking about anti fascism and with 0:02:04.040 --> 0:02:07.240 a few more episodes to do. So um, strap in, 0:02:08.160 --> 0:02:13.720 buckle up. Eat some rice rice, Eat some rice rice. 0:02:13.760 --> 0:02:16.600 It's good for you. They get that brown rice that's 0:02:16.600 --> 0:02:18.680 got like the extra you know, the vitamins and ship 0:02:18.720 --> 0:02:20.600 in it. You know what I'm saying. Yeah, don't skin 0:02:20.639 --> 0:02:22.919 your potatoes. If you're eating potatoes, that's where the vitamins are. 0:02:23.120 --> 0:02:26.000 And I can enjoy potato skins. I love potato skins. 0:02:26.280 --> 0:02:28.680 You know who didn't love potatoes? Actually, Hitler did love them. 0:02:28.680 --> 0:02:32.919 He was because yeah, huge, huge fan of vegetables. Anyway, 0:02:33.600 --> 0:02:37.400 here's the storage. Yeah. As soon as von Lasso and 0:02:37.480 --> 0:02:41.280 car and Cisor are free, they immediately warned Berlin and 0:02:41.320 --> 0:02:44.280 call from military reinforcements from the rest of Bavaria and 0:02:44.280 --> 0:02:46.160 try to organize the rest of the police who weren't 0:02:46.160 --> 0:02:49.320 on Hitler's side into some sort of counter push. This 0:02:49.360 --> 0:02:51.200 would tend to them looking at each other right when 0:02:51.240 --> 0:02:53.400 they stepped out of the room, like, I can't believe 0:02:53.400 --> 0:02:55.760 that worked. We're not coming back right, Like, no, we're 0:02:55.800 --> 0:03:00.120 not going right. I can't believe you believe this. I 0:03:00.160 --> 0:03:02.440 can't believe I can't believe that worked. You know, I 0:03:02.440 --> 0:03:05.280 think I know why we lost the war. That guy 0:03:05.400 --> 0:03:12.640 might not be very smart. Yeah, So, um, now, while 0:03:12.680 --> 0:03:15.040 this is happening, it's gonna take time, right, ship doesn't 0:03:15.040 --> 0:03:17.520 turn on a dime, you know, this is nighttime on 0:03:17.560 --> 0:03:20.480 the eighth, when they get free and start warning everybody, 0:03:20.480 --> 0:03:23.320 it's gonna take hours for them to like actually get 0:03:23.960 --> 0:03:27.079 um a counter putch force in place to fight the Nazis. 0:03:27.600 --> 0:03:30.079 And so for the rest of the night of November eight, 0:03:30.240 --> 0:03:33.240 the Nazis find themselves in total control of a German 0:03:33.280 --> 0:03:36.200 city for the first time in history, and they very 0:03:36.240 --> 0:03:40.520 predictably did Nazi ship Yeah yeah, members of stuff stroup. 0:03:40.600 --> 0:03:43.600 Hitler first swarmed the offices of the Munschner Post, a 0:03:43.680 --> 0:03:47.240 social Democratic paper, which they considered a Jewish paper. They 0:03:47.280 --> 0:03:50.040 threatened the business manager at gunpoint in order to gain entry, 0:03:50.080 --> 0:03:53.400 and then they destroyed everything inside, throwing ink on the walls, 0:03:53.440 --> 0:03:57.360 cutting phone lines, smashing desks, destroying three and eighty patents 0:03:57.400 --> 0:04:01.640 of glass. One Nazi later recalled, we forced open the 0:04:01.640 --> 0:04:04.280 doors of this place, ransacked the building, and flung all 0:04:04.320 --> 0:04:06.600 the printed stuff we could lay hands upon out into 0:04:06.640 --> 0:04:10.680 the street. Now, during the assault, a police officer arrived 0:04:11.080 --> 0:04:13.240 not to stop the Nazis but to make sure they 0:04:13.280 --> 0:04:16.360 didn't damage the printing presses, because Hitler wanted those, because 0:04:16.360 --> 0:04:17.720 he wanted to take them and give them to one 0:04:17.720 --> 0:04:21.599 of his newspapers. Hey hey, hey, hey, you rough, Hey hey, 0:04:21.600 --> 0:04:25.480 we're stealing that. Don't break it, all, Nazis here, Just 0:04:25.480 --> 0:04:30.640 don't breaks valuable. Shoot those people, those people, fine, just 0:04:30.680 --> 0:04:33.880 don't hurt the printing presses. Those costs money. Yeah, they're 0:04:33.880 --> 0:04:36.479 all scared, like, oh no, kill that dude. I'm saying, 0:04:36.480 --> 0:04:38.840 don't break the printer. Yeah, no, you're not under arrest, 0:04:38.920 --> 0:04:43.640 of course, not what So they looted everything of value, 0:04:43.680 --> 0:04:46.919 including an estimated six trillion German marks, which is, you know, 0:04:47.000 --> 0:04:49.600 even at that point, a decent amount of money. Um. 0:04:49.720 --> 0:04:52.000 While they were raiding, they found the home address of 0:04:52.040 --> 0:04:54.240 the papers editor, who's a Jewish man. So they broke 0:04:54.279 --> 0:04:56.799 into his home next, and they threatened his wife at gunpoint. 0:04:57.120 --> 0:05:00.200 Now he was already in hiding, but the Nazis did 0:05:00.200 --> 0:05:02.320 not leave right away. And I'm gonna quote again from 0:05:02.320 --> 0:05:06.400 the trial of Adolf Hitler. This guy's name is our ours. 0:05:06.440 --> 0:05:09.320 Elder daughter, Sophie asked the intruders to be as quiet 0:05:09.360 --> 0:05:12.520 as possible because their own two year old daughter was sleeping. Maurice, 0:05:12.560 --> 0:05:15.000 ignoring the request, asked who the father was as he 0:05:15.080 --> 0:05:18.239 rummaged through their closets, laundry and betting. He then smashed 0:05:18.279 --> 0:05:20.760 up a cupboard and turned over bookshelves, apparently looking for 0:05:20.800 --> 0:05:23.160 weapons as much as any clue for the whereabouts of 0:05:23.200 --> 0:05:26.039 the editor. We are the masters and we govern now, 0:05:26.160 --> 0:05:29.000 Maurice boasted, And that guy Maurice would find up being 0:05:29.040 --> 0:05:31.400 Hitler's valet like he was his driver and ship in 0:05:31.440 --> 0:05:35.120 bodyguard for a while. Yeah, now, attacks continued through the night, 0:05:35.200 --> 0:05:38.080 led by different gangs of Nazis. One small group was 0:05:38.160 --> 0:05:40.560 led by a bank clerk named Ernest Hoobner who got 0:05:40.600 --> 0:05:42.160 drunk at the start of the push and went off 0:05:42.200 --> 0:05:45.239 with friends in search of quote Jews and other enemies 0:05:45.240 --> 0:05:48.800 of the people to attack. They've broke into restaurants in hotels, 0:05:48.839 --> 0:05:52.120 demanding that Jews exit, beating people and kidnapping them. At 0:05:52.160 --> 0:05:55.000 least twenty four Jewish people were kidnapped and held hostage 0:05:55.080 --> 0:05:58.960 during this period. Numerous others were beaten, businesses were ransacked. 0:05:59.080 --> 0:06:03.039 Nazis another word, did Nazi ship? Yeah. Now, one of 0:06:03.040 --> 0:06:04.760 the things that's fun about this is in the wake 0:06:04.800 --> 0:06:08.240 of all this, stories will come out, like police will 0:06:08.279 --> 0:06:11.200 claim that police who were members of the Nazi Party 0:06:11.400 --> 0:06:13.920 will claim that while this was happening, Hitler condemned the 0:06:14.000 --> 0:06:17.760 violence against Jewish people. Um and the kernel of truth 0:06:17.760 --> 0:06:19.800 and that is that Hitler condemned the fact that some 0:06:19.880 --> 0:06:22.479 of his Nazis took off their swastika arm bands while 0:06:22.480 --> 0:06:24.719 they were beating new Jewish people. So we didn't condemn 0:06:24.720 --> 0:06:26.400 the violence as much as he was, like why didn't 0:06:26.400 --> 0:06:29.640 you wear it? That's good. It was a branding opportunity. Guys, fella, 0:06:29.760 --> 0:06:33.159 come on, we got these armed bands for a reason. 0:06:34.640 --> 0:06:40.160 We may good money for this ship. What are you doing. Yeah. 0:06:40.279 --> 0:06:43.160 So by the early morning, Hitler and his closest lackeys 0:06:43.200 --> 0:06:46.680 realized what Ludendorff had done and gradually came to understand 0:06:46.720 --> 0:06:49.120 that Berlin had been called and the army was coming 0:06:49.160 --> 0:06:52.000 for them. This brought a wave of hopelessness to some. 0:06:52.480 --> 0:06:54.440 The rash nature of the push, the fact that the 0:06:54.440 --> 0:06:56.640 timeline had been moved up two days at the last minute, 0:06:56.839 --> 0:06:58.880 the poor communication, and the fact that a lot of 0:06:58.920 --> 0:07:01.040 time had been spent giving long hit their speeches to 0:07:01.160 --> 0:07:03.840 rooms full of drunk people uh and beating up random 0:07:03.920 --> 0:07:06.760 Jewish people in the street uh instead of securing Munich 0:07:06.880 --> 0:07:08.960 meant that the Nazis were about to face off against 0:07:08.960 --> 0:07:12.240 the Bavarian army without full control of the city. They 0:07:12.320 --> 0:07:14.760 kind of got drunken, out of control and failed to 0:07:14.800 --> 0:07:18.040 do the things that were necessary to actually defend their territory. 0:07:18.120 --> 0:07:22.880 You know, didn't think that through man, not yeah, Nazi ship. 0:07:23.560 --> 0:07:26.800 So Ludendorff was aghast when he realized that General von 0:07:26.840 --> 0:07:30.280 Lasso had not kept his word. He is very brokenhearted 0:07:30.280 --> 0:07:33.400 by this. He can't believe it. He actually like tries 0:07:33.480 --> 0:07:36.440 to call him and be like, come on, you promised, man, Man, 0:07:37.320 --> 0:07:40.760 Hey man, what about that word you said you're gonna 0:07:40.800 --> 0:07:44.800 come back? Bro? Yeah, come on, you know I gotta 0:07:44.840 --> 0:07:48.680 tell you. Man, I'm I'm hurt. I'm hurt. I'm personally hurt, man. 0:07:48.720 --> 0:07:52.880 You I'm not angry, I'm disappointed. Yeah, Bro, Man, we're 0:07:52.880 --> 0:07:56.840 supposed to have some sort of code. Man, so funny, 0:07:57.560 --> 0:08:02.640 it's extremely funny. Um So Ludendorf yeah, is horrified. Hitler's 0:08:02.720 --> 0:08:06.000 just angry, and he insists that the Nazis go on 0:08:06.080 --> 0:08:08.680 with what most people now realize as a hopeless push. 0:08:08.920 --> 0:08:11.040 Hit The rants that he's prepared to fight for the 0:08:11.120 --> 0:08:14.400 cause and not a coward. He also screams that by 0:08:14.480 --> 0:08:17.000 betraying him, Lasso and the other members of the Triumvirate 0:08:17.000 --> 0:08:21.200 had forfeited their quote right to exist. Oh god, hardcore 0:08:21.280 --> 0:08:23.440 Nazi guy. I mean he's yeah, like just just just 0:08:23.560 --> 0:08:27.720 be saying like if it wasn't so violently dangerous again, 0:08:27.800 --> 0:08:29.880 it's like the goofball thing where I'm just like, why 0:08:29.880 --> 0:08:32.280 are you so? Are you such a drama queen? Bro? 0:08:32.480 --> 0:08:36.080 Like they've reversed the right to exist? Like, hey, man. 0:08:36.920 --> 0:08:40.440 You know, Hitler was wearing those corny ass cargo short 0:08:40.440 --> 0:08:44.800 shorts when he said it, too, right, just like hey man, 0:08:45.600 --> 0:08:48.160 he's just I'm gonna I'm gonna flame my church coat off, 0:08:48.160 --> 0:08:50.280 and I got my tooths crosses in there, like bro. 0:08:50.960 --> 0:08:57.319 Why the theatrics? Man? Like bro? You was his unnecessary 0:08:57.440 --> 0:09:05.640 theatrical anyway? It's just Nazi ship. Like okay, man, just 0:09:05.880 --> 0:09:07.960 if you're gonna shoot the place of shoot the place up, 0:09:07.960 --> 0:09:11.040 you ain't got to do all what is all this? Anyway? 0:09:11.440 --> 0:09:14.520 He's Nazi ship, you know. So at this point in time, 0:09:14.600 --> 0:09:18.720 Hitler's organized forces in Munich number around four thousand, whereas 0:09:18.720 --> 0:09:22.839 the government in Munich only is about troops and police combined, 0:09:23.160 --> 0:09:26.080 and obviously a lot of the police are Nazis. Now. 0:09:26.200 --> 0:09:29.600 Reinforcements were on their way rapidly um and so some 0:09:29.640 --> 0:09:32.480 of Hitler's men suggested retreating outside of the city with 0:09:32.520 --> 0:09:34.400 the forces they had, to a small town where they 0:09:34.400 --> 0:09:37.640 had a strong base of support. Ludendorff argued against that 0:09:37.880 --> 0:09:40.080 and instead insisted that they needed to carry out a 0:09:40.120 --> 0:09:43.199 public show of strength and march through Munich in numbers 0:09:43.240 --> 0:09:45.280 to rally the people of the city to their banner. 0:09:45.920 --> 0:09:48.439 So like, that's you know, kind of Ludendorf city is like, no, 0:09:48.520 --> 0:09:51.000 we can't retreat. If we start marching, the people will 0:09:51.040 --> 0:09:54.080 join us. We'll start the march on Berlin now. And yeah, 0:09:54.120 --> 0:09:56.400 I'm gonna quote from the trial of Adolf Hitler here. 0:09:57.200 --> 0:10:00.280 Perhaps a show of popular support would convince car also 0:10:00.360 --> 0:10:03.560 incisor to abandon their intention to oppose them. Surely too, 0:10:03.600 --> 0:10:05.600 it was reasoned the army would not shoot at a 0:10:05.600 --> 0:10:09.559 procession led by such a popular national figure as General Ludendorff. 0:10:09.600 --> 0:10:12.040 The heavens will fall before the troops fire on me, 0:10:12.360 --> 0:10:15.600 Ludendorff had told a colleague the previous day. The soldiers would, 0:10:15.640 --> 0:10:18.000 it was hoped, flocked to the banner of the swastika. 0:10:18.200 --> 0:10:21.640 With a little luck, nationalist momentum might push Hitler to Berlin, 0:10:22.000 --> 0:10:25.680 just as it had propelled Mussolini to Rome. It didn't. 0:10:27.040 --> 0:10:30.480 It didn't um. Hitler gathered about two thousand men at 0:10:30.520 --> 0:10:32.560 the Burger Brow, and he did, in fact, marched them 0:10:32.559 --> 0:10:34.040 to the center of the city, and for a little 0:10:34.040 --> 0:10:36.640 while things went well. Fifteen minutes into the march, the 0:10:36.720 --> 0:10:39.440 Nazis approached a group of thirty police officers with heavy 0:10:39.480 --> 0:10:42.200 machine guns, and the police tell the Nazis to stop, 0:10:42.200 --> 0:10:45.640 and Herman Garring yells back at them, don't shoot your comrades. 0:10:45.960 --> 0:10:48.959 And then right after saying don't shoot your comrades, like 0:10:49.000 --> 0:10:51.520 a trumpet blows and the Nazis charged the police and 0:10:51.559 --> 0:10:53.760 take their guns and beat them unconscious with their own 0:10:53.880 --> 0:10:57.800 rifle butts, which is again some serious d C on 0:10:57.880 --> 0:11:01.800 the sixth energy, Yeah, yeah, where are your friends? Wham, 0:11:02.160 --> 0:11:05.800 it's beating a cop with a blue lives matter that 0:11:06.000 --> 0:11:10.200 is that is that a thin blue line rag around 0:11:10.280 --> 0:11:15.079 him and his neck to choke him. Yeah so um, yeah, 0:11:15.280 --> 0:11:18.720 the police were taken captive. The Nazis beat them and 0:11:18.720 --> 0:11:20.960 take their guns, um and send them back to the 0:11:20.960 --> 0:11:24.679 beer hall. And Nazi propaganda would describe this assault on 0:11:24.720 --> 0:11:28.440 the police as police fraternization, right, like, it's us, it's 0:11:28.480 --> 0:11:32.160 us being friendly with the cops. Now, this early success 0:11:32.440 --> 0:11:35.720 would not prove to be you know, how the rest 0:11:35.760 --> 0:11:38.960 of things went um. Eventually, the crowd reached a barricade 0:11:38.960 --> 0:11:41.880 of a hundred police officers set up in a narrow 0:11:41.880 --> 0:11:45.240 street where their flanks were protected. The Nazis advanced, and 0:11:45.280 --> 0:11:49.040 while it's not known who started shooting, a gun battle ensued. 0:11:49.440 --> 0:11:53.120 Four police officers and sixteen Nazis were killed. Hitler was 0:11:53.160 --> 0:11:55.559 pulled to the ground by his bodyguard and his shoulder 0:11:55.679 --> 0:11:59.000 was dislocated. Garring was shot in the groin in the leg. 0:11:59.600 --> 0:12:02.160 And this is actually why Herman Garring and the pictures 0:12:02.160 --> 0:12:04.440 you see of him as like when he's in power, 0:12:04.880 --> 0:12:08.040 is like heavily overweight. It's why he becomes a morphine addict. 0:12:08.080 --> 0:12:10.600 Like he's horribly injured and he gets addicted to pain killers. 0:12:11.240 --> 0:12:14.320 Um yeah, and then he like starts over eating when 0:12:14.320 --> 0:12:16.160 he can't be on pain killers in order to deal 0:12:16.200 --> 0:12:19.000 with like he's badly hurt by this. Now, there's a 0:12:19.080 --> 0:12:21.600 couple of different stories about what happens with Ludendorff. The 0:12:21.640 --> 0:12:24.800 most common one that like Ludendorff backs is that while 0:12:24.880 --> 0:12:27.640 all of this gunfire is going on, he marches like 0:12:27.760 --> 0:12:30.360 straight backed, unharmed, up to the police line and is 0:12:30.400 --> 0:12:35.000 taken into custody, just completely unfrightened of bullets. Historians tend 0:12:35.040 --> 0:12:38.200 to suspect that, like, no, he was a soldier, like 0:12:38.360 --> 0:12:40.760 Hitler and everyone else who was had military experience. He 0:12:40.880 --> 0:12:44.440 dove for the ground when the shooting started. That's like 0:12:44.520 --> 0:12:47.960 you don't stand up, no one, you go to the 0:12:47.960 --> 0:12:52.280 fucking ground like that's what. Yeah, And Hitler gets really 0:12:52.280 --> 0:12:54.200 messed up by this too, Like I said, his shoulders 0:12:54.280 --> 0:12:57.640 like really badly dislocated. He doesn't get shot though, um 0:12:57.679 --> 0:12:59.720 And as soon as it's clear that his men because 0:12:59.720 --> 0:13:02.600 they's fire back and they kill some cops. As soon 0:13:02.640 --> 0:13:05.480 as it becomes clear that the Nazis are going to 0:13:05.600 --> 0:13:09.400 lose this giant gunfight, Hitler runs like fuck um and 0:13:09.480 --> 0:13:11.960 Nazi propaganda would later claim that he sees like a 0:13:11.960 --> 0:13:14.120 ten year old boy who gets wounded by the police 0:13:14.120 --> 0:13:17.520 and he picks him up and runs him to safety. 0:13:18.360 --> 0:13:21.360 This is a for one thing, his arm didn't work. Yeah, 0:13:21.480 --> 0:13:24.160 so that didn't happen, Like it's a complete lie. He 0:13:24.280 --> 0:13:26.880 ran because he didn't want to die. He did what 0:13:27.160 --> 0:13:30.800 every what they literally anyone would do. Yeah, is you 0:13:30.880 --> 0:13:33.680 Oh they're shooting, I should not get out of here. Yeah. 0:13:33.920 --> 0:13:35.959 I really ain't sign up in his I just wanted 0:13:36.000 --> 0:13:39.160 to know. So he flees, and he eventually takes a 0:13:39.200 --> 0:13:42.000 car to his friends, puts his his manner in rural Bavaria, 0:13:42.080 --> 0:13:44.280 and of course, as we talk about it in another episode, 0:13:44.400 --> 0:13:47.360 he tries to shoot himself there and puts his wife, Helena, 0:13:47.400 --> 0:13:50.240 who he has a crush on, like stops him, takes 0:13:50.280 --> 0:13:52.240 his gun and like throws it into a barrel of 0:13:52.280 --> 0:13:57.920 flour um, which is, you know, maybe not the best 0:13:57.920 --> 0:13:59.520 call anyone ever, but it was one of those like 0:13:59.760 --> 0:14:03.600 like short term goodness term, like in the moment, that 0:14:03.679 --> 0:14:06.800 was probably the right thing to do. Yeah, but it 0:14:06.920 --> 0:14:11.640 didn't end up well. So Yeah, Hitler eventually gets arrested 0:14:11.960 --> 0:14:15.440 and he's charged with, you know, trying to overthrow the government. Now, 0:14:15.640 --> 0:14:18.600 the maximum sentence for a guilty verdict would have been 0:14:18.640 --> 0:14:21.400 life imprisonment, and even if he wasn't put away for life, 0:14:21.480 --> 0:14:24.560 Hitler wasn't a German citizen, and the law code at 0:14:24.560 --> 0:14:27.880 the time stipulated that foreigners convicted of high treason should 0:14:27.880 --> 0:14:30.880 be deported after serving their sentence. Now, when he was 0:14:30.880 --> 0:14:34.160 brought to jail, Hitler was initially despondent, telling one police 0:14:34.200 --> 0:14:36.520 interviewer that he wanted to just shoot himself and get 0:14:36.520 --> 0:14:39.320 it over with. But as the days and weeks went by, 0:14:39.400 --> 0:14:41.880 it became clear that most of the Bavarian government and 0:14:41.920 --> 0:14:45.480 many of its people were best ambivalent about prosecuting Hitler. 0:14:45.680 --> 0:14:49.200 He was extremely popular. Nazi protesters took to the streets 0:14:49.200 --> 0:14:52.120 immediately after he was arrested, like shouting Hail Hitler and 0:14:52.200 --> 0:14:54.680 down with the car. Even a lot of the cops 0:14:54.680 --> 0:14:57.400 and soldiers who had put down the rebellion were broadly 0:14:57.480 --> 0:15:01.200 pro Hitler. They didn't want to see him pun ish. Now, 0:15:01.480 --> 0:15:04.080 this was kind of filed compounded by the fact that 0:15:04.120 --> 0:15:06.760 the press, even the left wing press, didn't take Hitler 0:15:06.880 --> 0:15:10.320 seriously because the putsch had failed. The New York World 0:15:10.520 --> 0:15:12.680 ignored Hitler's roll in it for the most part and 0:15:12.720 --> 0:15:15.840 declared it Ludendorff's pusch and depicted Hitler as a bumbling 0:15:15.880 --> 0:15:18.320 sidekick who had gone off half cough and dragged the 0:15:18.320 --> 0:15:22.000 general down with him. A major Berlin paper described it 0:15:22.040 --> 0:15:24.880 as a Ludendorff pusch and compared it to a childish 0:15:24.880 --> 0:15:29.120 prank rather than a severe attempt to destroy democracy. The 0:15:29.160 --> 0:15:31.880 New York Times probably had the best coverage. They made 0:15:31.920 --> 0:15:34.160 a pointed note that hit there was a skilled order 0:15:34.200 --> 0:15:36.800 and very charismatic. They laid out his skill at weaving 0:15:36.840 --> 0:15:40.520 the nation's resentments and racial bigotry into a cohesive political 0:15:40.520 --> 0:15:43.080 platform capable of getting people out into the street. You know. 0:15:43.120 --> 0:15:44.800 The New York Times falls down on the job a 0:15:44.840 --> 0:15:47.760 lot later, with Hitler. Um, but at this point, like 0:15:47.800 --> 0:15:53.600 they see at least that writer sees the danger, you know. Now. Meanwhile, 0:15:53.960 --> 0:15:57.680 in France, a left wing paper, the Republic French well, uh, 0:15:57.880 --> 0:15:59.440 the French Republic, I guess is the name of the 0:15:59.440 --> 0:16:02.040 paper calls it. Yeah, and it's like this is a 0:16:02.120 --> 0:16:04.560 very like a socialist paper. It warns its readers that 0:16:04.840 --> 0:16:07.400 the real victim of the push was not the Nazis, 0:16:07.600 --> 0:16:11.200 but the Bavarian government, who had brutally suppressed a popular uprising. 0:16:11.520 --> 0:16:14.440 The trial of Adolf Hitler notes it was instead a 0:16:14.480 --> 0:16:17.360 war between two different visions of dictatorship, and the most 0:16:17.440 --> 0:16:21.120 dangerous one, it believed, was not the one suppressed. Several 0:16:21.160 --> 0:16:23.560 papers on the left agreed with this assessment. Hitler, in 0:16:23.640 --> 0:16:26.240 his defeat, looked ludicrous and less menacing than the state 0:16:26.240 --> 0:16:28.960 authorities who had stopped him. The illusion would only grow 0:16:29.000 --> 0:16:32.440 in the coming months. So like, no, no, the state's 0:16:32.480 --> 0:16:40.480 way worse than Hitler. You know, he's just a silly dude. Yeah. Again, 0:16:40.560 --> 0:16:43.320 the lesson of history is that no one has ever 0:16:43.400 --> 0:16:48.440 learned a lesson from history ever, not a single person. Goddamn. 0:16:50.640 --> 0:16:54.360 And the idea, the part that so chilling is like 0:16:56.200 --> 0:16:59.720 you know, him sitting in prison almost the idea of 0:16:59.800 --> 0:17:04.239 him almost checking out and being like, maybe let's not 0:17:04.320 --> 0:17:07.720 do this, and in the streets rise up for him 0:17:07.760 --> 0:17:10.719 and he's like wait what wait, yeah, like me, all right, 0:17:10.800 --> 0:17:17.040 let's let's let's let's push on, you know like that 0:17:17.040 --> 0:17:19.879 that's that part is so chilling, where it was just 0:17:19.960 --> 0:17:25.160 like he almost stopped. Yeah, he could have been stopped. 0:17:25.160 --> 0:17:27.840 And this is the story at this point is why 0:17:27.960 --> 0:17:32.400 he wasn't, you know, um like like why he didn't 0:17:33.160 --> 0:17:36.520 Why this wasn't the end of his political career. Because 0:17:36.560 --> 0:17:38.640 the big question of the Munich beer hole Pusch isn't 0:17:38.640 --> 0:17:40.800 why didn't it work? Because it was a terrible idea 0:17:40.840 --> 0:17:43.119 from the start, it was doomed from it was badly 0:17:43.160 --> 0:17:47.239 planned in order. Yeah, it is instead why didn't this 0:17:47.320 --> 0:17:50.320 push in the Hitler's career, And the answer to that 0:17:50.400 --> 0:17:54.400 question comes once again down to the justice system, law enforcement. 0:17:54.440 --> 0:17:57.120 The police in Munich in particular were critical in allowing 0:17:57.160 --> 0:17:59.679 the Nazis to rise to power in the first place, 0:18:00.080 --> 0:18:03.760 and in nineteen the year of Hitler's trial, the justice 0:18:03.800 --> 0:18:06.800 department would prove critical in keeping his ambitions alive, or 0:18:06.800 --> 0:18:11.880 the justice system Germany whatever. So Hitler goes to court 0:18:11.920 --> 0:18:14.280 and as a note, they take him to court and 0:18:14.320 --> 0:18:18.119 like a military academy, um, and the academy is empty 0:18:18.160 --> 0:18:20.439 because all of the young soldiers being trained in the 0:18:20.480 --> 0:18:24.280 military academy were part of Hitler's push. Um. So like 0:18:24.359 --> 0:18:29.199 the yeah, like yeah, yeah, is this the trial? So 0:18:29.280 --> 0:18:32.320 I read death of Democracy? Yes, so is this the 0:18:32.400 --> 0:18:36.919 trial where the judge was essentially like, I'll give you it. 0:18:36.920 --> 0:18:39.080 I like the guy, Uh, this is one of those 0:18:39.359 --> 0:18:42.880 democracy I think is talking about the trial with um 0:18:42.640 --> 0:18:45.440 um a different like there were a couple of trials 0:18:45.480 --> 0:18:47.840 like that. It happened more than once. This is the 0:18:47.880 --> 0:18:50.720 first time. Well, actually it's not the first time. It's 0:18:50.720 --> 0:18:53.560 not the first time with this judge, as we're about 0:18:53.560 --> 0:18:57.120 to talk about. So, the presiding judge in Hitler's case 0:18:57.160 --> 0:19:00.040 was a guy named George Nightheart. Now Nightheart had a 0:19:00.040 --> 0:19:04.280 reputation for opposing democracy in liberalism and just loving himself 0:19:04.320 --> 0:19:06.760 the far right. He was a monarchist in his bones, 0:19:06.800 --> 0:19:09.119 and he took his rage at Weimar democracy out on 0:19:09.280 --> 0:19:13.480 left wing like uh, what McCall people like on the left. 0:19:13.520 --> 0:19:16.159 He wound up in his docket. Now, this was not 0:19:16.200 --> 0:19:19.560 an isolated phenomenon in Germany, most judges were very much 0:19:19.600 --> 0:19:24.040 far right. Statician Emile Gumbel analyzed murder trials in Fimar, 0:19:24.119 --> 0:19:27.080 Germany from nineteen eighteen to nineteen twenty two. Uh He 0:19:27.119 --> 0:19:30.359 found quote right wing defendants received a not guilty verdict 0:19:30.359 --> 0:19:33.680 no fewer than three d s three fifty four cases. 0:19:33.920 --> 0:19:36.480 There were no death penalties and only one life sentence. 0:19:36.800 --> 0:19:39.280 Left wing defendants, by contrast, were judged in a sent 0:19:39.400 --> 0:19:42.240 only four of the twenty two cases, receiving ten death 0:19:42.240 --> 0:19:45.040 penalties and three life sentences. The length of the sentence 0:19:45.080 --> 0:19:47.720 also confirmed the double standard, fifteen years on average for 0:19:47.720 --> 0:19:54.960 the left, four months for the right. 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