Ben Wilson

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So he says, this is only directed against those traitors who stabbed us in the back in 1918.

So he says to everyone else, to all you nationalists who are here tonight, relax.

He says, quote, you all have your beer.

Keep drinking.

You have nothing to worry about.

All right.

So he's trying to mollify them, but the crowd wasn't fully convinced.

He gets like some murmurs, a few mild-mannered protests, and people aren't really speaking out against him, especially since the hall is surrounded by people with guns, but they're not totally convinced either.

At that point, Hitler returns to the beer hall, to the main room.

Now, here's where we see, for one of the first times in the series, the truly extraordinary power that Hitler wielded in front of a crowd.

Carl Alexander von Mueller, a historian and one of the eyewitnesses present that night, later described what he saw.

All right, listen to this.

I love this quote.

This is so interesting.

He says, quote, I cannot remember in my entire life such a change in the attitude of a crowd in a few minutes, almost a few seconds.

hitler had turned them inside out as one turns a glove inside out with a few sentences it had almost something of hocus pocus or magic about it right that's really interesting to me and it's also kind of infuriating because i'm looking through these historical sources and all these first-hand accounts say the same thing they all say

that Hitler had this magical effect within just a few sentences.

He turns the entire room behind him, but none of them can recall exactly what he said.