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Journey Through Time

26. The Failed Nazi Coup (Ep 1)

Journey Through Time

Goalhanger

History

4.3 • 595 Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

The Nazis were voted into power in 1933, but how close did they come to seizing power 10 years before? What catastrophic economic conditions fuelled them? And where did Hitler take his inspiration from? Listen as David Olusoga and Sarah Churchwell discuss the 1923 Beer Hall putsch and the Nazis’ attempt to seize power. Email: journeythroughtime@goalhanger.com  X: ⁠@ThroughTimePod⁠ Blue Sky: ⁠@ThroughTimePod⁠ Instagram: ⁠@ThroughTimePod⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Munich, November 8th.

0:50.6

This city, with tens of thousands of German visitors and several thousand more Nazi stormtroopers, is celebrating today and tomorrow a political miracle.

1:01.2

The miracle is the resurrection of the National Socialist Party of Adolf Hitler and its marvelous endurance and growth until at length it has swept over all Germany, and within Germany,

1:12.7

its power is limitless.

1:15.1

Ten years ago, tomorrow, it was killed.

1:18.8

So it then seemed, as dead as anything political could be in battle and amid bloodshed.

1:24.2

Its main leader was a fugitive with capture in a prison term ahead of him.

1:29.1

Today, he is Chancellor of the Reich, and untold thousands hang upon his slightest word.

1:36.2

That, David, is the somewhat chilling opening paragraph of an article published in the New York

1:40.3

Times in 1933, the year the Nazi party came to power in Germany. But it's about what

1:45.6

happened in Germany a decade earlier in 1923 when Hitler attempted to win power violently

1:50.8

through an attempted coup launched in the city of Munich, the so-called Beer Hall Putsch.

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