Ben Wilson

But things look very bleak.

Over the coming two days, again, he's kind of hiding out in this country estate.

His supporters talked to him, his friends talked to him, and he would manage to regain some small glimmer of hope.

But, I mean, things looked bad.

Two days later, the police come for him.

He was arrested.

He looked disheveled.

His shoulder injury was still bothering him.

And he's taken to Landsberg Prison to await trial.

So the Beer Hall Putsch is over.

It lasted less than 24 hours.

14 of his men were dead.

The movement had apparently collapsed.

You know, even at this very, very early stage, it's clear that the party is going to be disbanded.

Many people are going to spend a long time in prison.

Like, things look terrible.

The American consular representative in Munich, a guy by the name of Robert Murphy, presumed Hitler would serve his sentence and then be deported from Germany.

So the reports back to America are, hey, there was this far-right movement, German National Socialist Workers Party.

That's over.

Like, that's how people are treating it.