What is Beer Hall Putsch?
[[File:Hitler, Maurice, Kriebel, Hess, Weber, prison de Landsberg en 1924.jpg|thumb|[[Nazism|Nazis]] who participated in the Putsch. [[Adolf Hitler|Hitler]] is on the left; [[Rudolf Hess]] is second from right]] The '''Beer Hall Putsch''' was a failed [[coup d'état]] in [[Munich]], [[Weimar Republic|Germany]] between the evening of 8 November and the morning of 9 November 1923. During the Putsch, the [[Nazi Party]] under [[Adolf Hitler]] tried to take over the government of [[Bavaria]], a [[States of Germany|state]] in Germany. They took several hundred people hostage in a [[beer]] hall (a large building where people got together to drink beer and sometimes listen to political speeches). Several Nazis died when they got into a gun fight with police officers in another part of Munich. Hitler went to prison for eight months and wrote his [[manifesto]] ''[[Mein Kampf]]'' during that time. == Reasoning == Hitler chose to launch the Putsch for many reasons. At the time, Germany was the [[Weimar Republic]]. The Republic and its government were weak because of fighting between [[Right-wing politics|right-]] and [[Left-wing politics|left-wing]] [[Political party|political parties]]. Because of [[inflation]], many people did not have enough money to pay daily expenses. Sometimes, wages or pensions were not paid. The Weimar Republic's financial problems started when Germany lost World War I. [[Treaty of Versailles|Other countries made Germany pay for the entire war]], and Germany had to make [[tax]]es very high in order to pay. This hurt Germany's [[economy]]. In the early 1920s, the [[Nazi Party]] was getting very strong. Hitler was a strong leader. In 1923, the year when the [[Weimar Republic]] was least popular, the Nazi Party grew from 6,000 members to 55,000. With the Putsch, Hitler wanted to take control of the government by force. He wanted to copy [[Benito Mussolini]], Italy's [[Fascism|fascist]] [[dictator]], who took power by [[Invasion|invading]] [[Rome]]. == Attempted coup == [[File:FrMeinKampf20050214.