Odeonsplatz
Grand square with a Florentine-style loggia, scene of the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch shootout.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Odeonsplatz in Munich returns to the morning of November 9, 1923, when roughly two thousand marchers led by Hitler and the war hero Erich Ludendorff tried to seize power and were met by state police at the mouth of this square. You'll hear how the ensuing gunfire wounded Hermann Goering and dislocated Hitler's shoulder, and how the Nazis later turned the loggia behind you into a shrine guarded by an SS honor guard demanding a salute from every passerby. The guide follows what ordinary Munich residents did next to avoid giving it.
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