23. Hitler leads the troops (well, in the romanticized Nazi painting, anyway - his men actually threw him to the ground bodyguard-style as soon as the shooting started). He had already won the Iron Cross, 1st Class
24. The leaders stand trial after local and state police stop the putsch.
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26. Paying homage to the 16 fallen Putschists (4 policemen also died) Hitler worked within the existing political framework to come to power legitimately .
Proportional representation is different than the first-past-the-post system we currently use: The party gets the same percentage of seats as their percentage of the vote. The Weimar gov’t was unpopular and unstable/fractured. The people were very nationalistic and would easily have sacrificed democracy for authority and a more stable gov’t. When Hitler came to power in 1933 (after outlawing the Communists) he had 17 million of 39 million ballots cast.
Interesting to note that the Friekorps also assassinated Matthius Erzberger, (signed Armistice) and Walther Ratheneau (Weimar Jewish Foreign Minister) Friekorps usually went unpunished.
Freikorps = FREE CORPS
The SA arrest Socialist city councilmen
4 state police and 16 putschists dead
“ My Struggle “ – part autobiography, part political ideology Served only 8 months – 500 RM fine – everything reported in the newspaper = publicity for Hitler’s message
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