Range Ross Peter. 1924: The Year That Made Hitler

2016.
Quality: originally electronicThe dark story of Adolf Hitler's life in 1924 - -the year that made a monster.
The year 1924 was quite important in Adolf Hitler's rise to power. He and a small band of Nazis - along with General Erich Ludendorff and others in the disbanded post-war German army - tried to take power in Munich on November 8-9, 1923. Proclaiming their "putsch" in the large beer hall - the Bürgerbräukeller, and then out in the street - Hitler and his crew planned badly and the putsch was put down. Hitler was put in Landsberg prison, while awaiting his trial for treason. As the year began, Adolf Hitler was ensconced in fairly fancy quarters in the prison. Peter Ross Range gives a lot of detail to the putsch and subsequent trial, where Hitler, acting often as his own lawyer, gave hours-long political speeches, under the guise of defending himself. Despite his defense - or maybe because of it - Hitler was sentenced to five years imprisonment, which was immediately reduced to six or so months.