Norman Ohler

It was the big vault with the big doors.

So that's where Tresor was the club.

Well, it is a fact that the movement came out of the Bürgerbräukeller.

It's a certain restaurant pub in Munich.

And that was not only a beer hall, that was also a political venue.

And it was a right-wing venue.

It was for right-wing populist people like communists wouldn't use it, even though communists are in many ways quite similar to the right-wing.

especially back then, but it was used by right-wingers and Hitler didn't mind because people who are drunk are more susceptible to right-wing populism, I would claim now here.

And Hitler would agree.

So he did not think it was bad that these people were a bit drunk or maybe even very drunk because if you're drunk, you also get aggressive against others.

Like it's, he could play with that, you know?

So drunk, aggressive towards others, but drunk in a group.

It constitutes the group also.

If everyone is on the same alcohol level, you just go to Oktoberfest in Munich, which is not a political thing, but everyone, you know, you can kind of sense how it originated.

And actually the first time the Nazis tried to

grab power was the so-called beer hall putsch.

I mean, that's a historical event.

It took place in 1923, and it was after a drunk night where they suddenly decided, now we're going to do it.

So they came out of the Bürgerbräukeller, and they were all drunk except of Hitler, and they just tried to overtake the Munich government, and they miserably failed because it was just a stupid drunk idea.

They were like, yeah, let's just do it.