Ben Wilson

This is the end of the movement.

Complete failure, complete collapse.

And it is assumed that Hitler will be deported back to Austria.

Remember, he still has no German citizenship.

He had been born in Austria.

He'd been living in Germany for a number of years now, but he had never taken the time to actually get German citizenship.

The author Stefan Zweig later remarked, quote, in the year 1923, the swastikas and stormtroopers disappeared and the name of Adolf Hitler fell back almost into oblivion.

Okay.

Again, I just can't overemphasize the extent to which it is over.

It is so over.

Hitler was alive.

His supporters are for the most part alive.

14 of them are dead, but most of his close lieutenants were not shot.

But basically everything else is gone.

The National Socialist Movement, if it ever comes back, is going to have to start again from zero.

So the Beer Hall Putsch failed for a simple structural reason.

Hitler had no workable theory of victory.

He had an end point, which is March on Berlin.

He had a start point, which is, you know, get Karl Lassow and Cesar to agree to this and support me.

But, you know, Step B, C, and D are basically missing.