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Also Known As Bierkeller Putsch • Hitlerputsch • Munich Putsch • Münchener Putsch
Date November 8, 1923 - November 9, 1923
Location Germany • Munich
Participants Nazi Party

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Key People

Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler
dictator of Germany
Friedrich Ebert, c. 1924.
Friedrich Ebert
president of Weimar Republic
Erich Ludendorff
Erich Ludendorff
German general
Hermann Göring
Hermann Göring
German minister
Rudolf Hess
Rudolf Hess
German Nazi leader
Dietrich, Sepp
Josef Dietrich
German military officer
Daluege, Himmler, and Röhm
Ernst Röhm
German army officer