Feldherrnhalle
Stone loggia honoring Bavarian generals, site of a 1923 coup attempt and quiet wartime resistance.
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This guide to the Feldherrnhalle in Munich follows the loggia's turn from a monument honoring Bavarian generals into the site of Adolf Hitler's 1923 Beer Hall Putsch, when roughly two thousand marchers headed straight for this spot and Bavarian police were waiting. It traces what happened once the Nazis later turned the hall into a shrine to that day, and how ordinary Munich residents responded when confronted with what was expected of them here. Look down at the wavy line of bronze cobblestones behind you, marking a small, quiet act of defiance repeated day after day.
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