Armed SA men pile out of a truck in to a Munich street during the Beer Hall Putsch.
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Date
Circa 1923 November 07 - 1923 November 09
Description
Armed members of the paramilitary organization the Sturmabteilung (also known as the SA, Brownshirts, or Storm Troopers) pile out of a truck in to a Munich street during the Beer Hall Putsch, an attempted overthrow of the government of Bavaria in 1923 as the first step toward the establishment of a nationalist regime in Germany. This coup was undertaken by the German Combat Front and the Nazi Party, headed by General Erich Ludendorff and Adolf Hitler respectively
Type
Photograph
Region
Global
Era
The Great Depression and WW II
Topic
Global History and Geography, World War II
Repository
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Identifer
35790
Source
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Dottie Bennett
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