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The Trial of Adolf Hitler: The Beer Hall Putsch and the Rise of Nazi Germany

David King

“Gripping… a disturbing portrait of how an advanced country can descend into chaos.” —Frederick Taylor, Wall Street Journal The Trial of Adolf Hitler tells the true story of the monumental criminal proceeding that thrust Hitler into the limelight after the failed beer hall putsch, provided him with an unprecedented stage for his demagoguery, and set him on his improbable path to power. Reporters from as far away as Argentina and Australia flocked to Munich for the sensational, four-week spectacle. By the end, Hitler would transform a fiasco into a stunning victory for the fledgling Nazi Party. The first book in English on the subject, The Trial of Adolf Hitler draws on never-before-published sources to re-create in riveting detail a haunting failure of justice with catastrophic consequences.

HistoryWorld History · medium confidenceWorld History81 signalsLlm Classifier: World History -> World HistoryGoogle Books: History -> HistoryKeyword Classifier: Biography -> BiographyWorld War IIWar & Military StrategyAmerican Civil War

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Cundill History PrizeMajor2018LonglistSecondary source
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  1. 01 Central figures

    • Adolf Hitler95%

  2. 02 Central places

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

    These suggestions did not meet the normal display threshold and are more likely to be wrong.

    • Munich60%

  3. 03 Suggested argument

    No argument inferred with sufficient confidence.

    This suggestion did not meet the normal display threshold and is more likely to be wrong.

    The trial and its publicity, following the failed beer hall putsch, provided Hitler with an unprecedented platform for demagoguery that helped transform the event into a victory for the Nazi Party and enabled his rise to power.

    Model confidence 45%

  4. 04 Reading orientation

    35 / 100 academic

    Serious trade

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Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 68%.