The next year, in 1923, came Hitler’s failed Beer Hall Putsch, an attempted coup d’état that began at the Bürgerbräu Keller, a beer hall in Munich. The event would have a comic-opera aspect to it if it hadn’t been so ugly: demonstrative of all the thuggery, rowdiness, incipient anarchy, and general incompetence of the politics of the era. The Beer Hall Putsch was an example of how law and order could begin to disintegrate even in an advanced country. It started when Bavarian leaders were in a rage to establish a right-wing, nationalist regime in Berlin and met at the Bürgerbräu Keller to plan
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