Hello and welcome to the History Hour podcast from the BBC World Service with me Max Pearson,

the past brought to life by those who were there.

This week, The Turner Diaries, a white supremacist book banned by some sellers after this month's attempt to storm the capital in Washington.

He would always say, oh it's just a novel, it's not meant that I'm, you know, trying to incite violence or anything.

But I know for a fact that's what he was wanting to do.

Plus, language and politics in post-colonial Kenya, and from the 1980s the eruption of

Hindu Sikh violence in India.

I can see the smoke from fads burning in four different directions.

Two miles away a man has been burnt alive.

Gangs of Hindu youths are roaming the streets shouting slogans against Sikhs and burning taxis.

That's all coming up later in the podcast.

And if that all sounds a bit confrontational, well perhaps that's appropriate in the month that has seen a new administration

take power in an America still stunned by the storming of the capital.

Some called it an attempted coup and has been general relief that it failed, but there's a striking

lesson from history which suggests a defeated coup attempt might not be the end of the story.

In 1923, there was a failed coup attempt at overturning democracy in Germany,

which, as Lucy Burns reports, paved the way for Adolf Hitler's rise to power. It would become known as the Beer Hall Putch or the Munich Putch,

because it all started in a beer hall in Munich in southern Germany.

Egon Larson was a journalist in the city at the time.

He spoke to the BBC years later.

We had been used to all kinds of surprises in Munich in those post-war years. We had had

putches, we had had rebellions, revolutions, we had shootings, but I think November 9th

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