History of Munich History of Munich The Bavarian Soviet Republic (Bayerische Räterepublik) — also known as the Munich Soviet Republic (Münchner Räterepublik) — was a short-lived revolutionary government in the German state of Bavaria in 1919 that sought to replace the fledgling Weimar Republic in its early days. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bavarian Soviet Republic"
The Beer Hall Putsch was a failed coup d'état which occurred in the evening of Thursday, November 8 to the early afternoon of Friday, November 9 1923, when the nascent Nazi party's Führer Adolf Hitler, the popular World War I General Erich Ludendorff, and other leaders of the Kampfbund, unsuccessfully tried to gain power in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. (A putsch is the German equivalent of a coup d'état, or the revolt of a small number of people, e.g. a military coup.) ...more on Wikipedia about "Beer Hall Putsch"
The Bürgerbräukeller was an inn cellar in Munich, by 1923 one of the preferred gathering saloons of the NSDAP. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bürgerbräukeller"
Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) was a group of expressionist artists established in Munich in 1911. ...more on Wikipedia about "Der Blaue Reiter"
This is a list of mayors of Munich, Germany. ...more on Wikipedia about "List of mayors of Munich"
The Munich Agreement was an agreement regarding the Sudetenland Crisis between the major powers of Europe after a conference held in Munich in Germany in 1938 and signed on September 29. The Sudetenland is a strategically important region of Czechoslovakia. The Skoda Works, a huge armament facility, were situated there. It had over 2.5 million German speaking inhabitants, and according to the Versailles treaty's rule of National Self Determination, should be under German leadership. The purpose of the conference was to discuss the future of Czechoslovakia and it ended up surrendering much of that state to Nazi Germany. It stands as a major example of appeasement. Because Czechoslovakia was not invited to the conference, the Munich Agreement is commonly called the Munich Dictate by the Czechs. The phrase Munich betrayal is also frequently used, especially because of the military alliances between Czechoslovakia and France and between France and Britain, that were not taken into account. ...more on Wikipedia about "Munich Agreement"
The Munich air disaster occurred on February 6, 1958, when Flight BE609, a British European Airways "Elizabethan" class Airspeed Ambassador charter aircraft G-ALZU 'Lord Burghley', carrying players and backroom staff of Manchester United F.C., plus a number of journalists and supporters, crashed in a blizzard on its third attempt to take off from Munich-Riem airport. ...more on Wikipedia about "Munich air disaster"
The Munich massacre occurred at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany, when members of the Israeli Olympic team were taken hostage by the Palestinian terrorist organization Black September – a group within Yasser Arafat's Fatah organization. The attack led to the deaths of 11 Israeli athletes and one German police officer. Five of the eight kidnappers were killed by the police during rescue attempts. Later, a series of Israeli revenge assassinations caused the deaths of some of the principal planners. It is believed that two of the three surviving kidnappers were also killed as part of this revenge operation, although some evidence has recently come to light to the contrary. It is certain that Jamal Al-Gashey, one of the kidnappers, is alive as of January 2006. ...more on Wikipedia about "Munich massacre"
The White Rose Society ( German, Die Weiße Rose) was a World War II-era resistance movement in Germany calling for nonviolent resistance against the Nazi regime. The group of Munich students released six leaflets from June 1942 to February 1943. A seventh leaflet, which may have been prepared, was never released because the group was captured by the Gestapo. ...more on Wikipedia about "White Rose"
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