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November 14, 2023

The Beerhall Putsch and the Anti-Semitic Violence That Wasn’t

The 100th anniversary of Hitler’s first grasp at power.

On the Jewish calendar, today is the first day of the month of Kislev, which the Orthodox rabbi of Munich, Heinrich Ehrentreu, decreed 100 years ago should be observed by local Jews as a day of fasting and prayer. The decree was observed by his community for the next ten years, to commemorate what he described as “the prevention of a pogrom.” Michael Brenner investigates the events Ehrentreu had in mind, which began with Adolf Hitler’s attempt to overthrow the German government, launched from a Munich beerhall on November 8, 1923:

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