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Into History.

com. It's the morning of November 9th,

1923 at a square. It's the morning of November 9th,

1923 at a square in the center of Munich, Germany,

where a revolution is underway.

Herman Goering heads a crowd of 2,000 marchers, puffing out his chest and blazoned with metals.

Goring is a World War I hero, a fighter pilot who proudly wears two iron crosses and the order of merit,

Germany's highest award for gallantry.

But today he is rebelling against the country that awarded his medals.

In 1923, Germany is an estate of turmoil.

The Democratic government created after World War I

is under threat from radicals across the political spectrum.

Among them is the organization that Guring recently joined,

the Nazis, an extreme right-wing movement with around 20,000 members.

Yesterday Gering walked into a local beer hall with his gun drawn to interrupt a political

meeting. Nazi leader Adolf Hitler announced to the stunned crowd

that a nationalist socialist revolution had begun

and bullied Munich's leading politicians into joining him.

Now Hitler and Guring planned to march on Berlin to overthrow the

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