The beer hall putsch and mein Kampf
- Beer Hall Putsch in 1923
- An attempt to overthrow the government after protesting the French Occupation of the Ruhr
- Supposed to be like Mussolini's march on Rome
- It fails
- Both Hitler and Gen. Ludendorff arrested and sent to Landsberg Prison
- While in Prison, Hitler wrote Mein Kampf with the help of Rudolf Hess
- He outlines the future of Nazism in this book including:
- Lebensraum
- Anti-Semitism
- Anti-Communist
- Need to re-arm and get rid of the treaty of Versailles
- The rise of the Aryan Race