Ben Wilson

And he says, if I'm going to join this coup, I need reassurances the plan has at least a 51% chance of success.

And Hitler says, that's ridiculous.

How can you ever actually know if you have a 51% chance of success, right?

Like, you do what you think you can, and you can't really ascribe percentages to these things.

Which, fair enough, but I mean, LaSalle was right.

There should at least be a plausible explanation for how you will succeed, which Hitler never had with the Beer Hall Pudge.

All right.

So Hitler is charged with high treason.

And by rights, this should have been the end of his story.

failed revolutionary Austrian immigrant, the most likely outcome was a lengthy prison sentence.

I mean, lengthy.

High treason.

High treason.

The penalty for high treason in the United States and in most places, like the standard penalty, is death.

We technically still have that on the books in the USA.

I think the Rosenbergs were the last people actually executed for treason in the US, but it's on the books.

So most people don't think he's actually going to be executed, but decades in prison and then gone.

So this should be the end.

That's what most people are assuming.

But Hitler turned the trial into one of his greatest triumphs, shockingly.