At 8:45 pm on November 8, 1923, Adolf Hitler, then 34 and the little-known leader of a tiny, violent extremist group called the National Socialist German Workers' Party, stormed into the crowded main hall of the Bürgerbräukeller, a beer hall in the Bavarian state capital of Munich.
Hitler did not initially want to launch the putsch that evening. He had planned it for November 11... But Hitler moved the date forward when he learned that another group of prominent figures in right-wing Bavarian politics... planned to hold a public meeting in the Bürgerbräukeller on November 8, at which point they were going to announce their own coup aimed at toppling the government in Berlin.
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