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It's the morning of November 9, 1923, at a square in the center of Munich, Germany,

where revolution is underway.

Herman Gurring heads a crowd of 2,000 marchers,

coughing out his chest and blazing with medals.

Gurring 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 in a state 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 Gurring recently joined,

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

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

meeting. Nazi leader Adolf Hitler announced to the stun crowd that a nationalist socialist

revolution had begun and bullied Munich's leading politicians into joining him.

Now Hitler and Gurring plan to march on Berlin to overthrow the government.

But the German army is not on their side.

Gurring slows as a soldier fires a warning shot from behind a barricade blocking the Nazi's

path. Out of the corner of his eye, Gurring sees Hitler keep marching forward.

Encouraged, Gurring doesn't allow his step to slow either.

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