Above: The Window where Goebbels gave the “Broken Glass” order. That night thousands of Jewish store fronts and homes were vandalized.
Below: The Beer hall where hitler gave his speech to German worker party laying out 25 point plan in 1920 and subsequently renamed the party to the nationalist socialist party or nazi for short
Interestingly enough, JFK also came here as a young lad in the late 30s. He sat next to a few SS officers who told him that if he drank four liters he would be able to keep the stein. This, of course, was a lie. He did drink them and ended up wasted trying to leave with the Stein. They caught him and subsequently banned him for life. The SS officers laughed at him as he was apprehended.
Most epic day of travel. We stumbled upon a free walking tour (pay in tips at the end whatever you think)
It was the best tour I’ve ever had in terms of quality of information, engagement and just plain epic. Most of Munich history is tied together by beer and of course later the formation of the nazi party. So the tour took us to sites related to those things.
Hitler had started as a spy and was assigned to the workers party when there were only 50 members. Not being a great spy he was outraged by comments that he heard and stood up and gave a speech. The workers party loved him and asked him to join. Soon it rose to 109 members when he gave another speech and within one year 1200 members. So much for being a spy. The rest is history.
We stood in the square were he gave many speeches and apparently doing a nazi solute is illegal to the point of 2500 euros and instant deportation. It’s a famous place for neo nazis
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