The revolution lies in the air in 1923 because the political crisis in Germany just escalates.

On the one hand, occupation of the religious strict of the industrial heartland of Germany by foreign troops,

in this case of Belgium and French troops, and this is really seen as a kind of moment of national outrage in Germany.

This is really radicalized as things, and combined that with the escalating economic crisis in Germany,

this is the moment of hyperinflation.

This is the kind of moment where from one day to next everything loses its value.

And it is this moment of hyperinflation that explains why things get out of hand in 1923 and why people expect revolution to happen.

By the way, either from the left or from the right, revolution isn't everyone's mind. Now is the time now or never.

Adolf Hitler knows there's a window of opportunity to strike and grab power.

But if he's not careful, the chance will come and go. Germany is mired in political and economic crises.

But soon the finance ministry in Berlin will start getting its act together.

The economic outlook will begin to improve. While people are poor and downtrodden, Hitler's message has a chance of hitting home.

But if people's lives get back on track, there'll be much less likely to reach for extreme solutions.

The time has come to launch the Munich Putsch.

My name is Paul McGahn and this is Real Dictators.

Germany was perhaps the strongest nation potentially in all of continental Europe.

Somehow it had to be stabilized. So the Germans brought in a brilliant minister of finance to solve the problem.

He worked out some formula by which the value of the German, the new German currency would be linked to the value of the land, of the agricultural land in Germany.

And somehow or other miraculously inflation began to end.

As the economy began to be stabilized, Hitler had the sense of no or never.

So he ended his indecision. He decided on November 9th, the anniversary of the surrender. At the end of World War I, he decided to march.

But then things started to move more quickly than Hitler initially thought that there would happen.

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