National Socialism in Munich

The City of Munich is aware of its special obligation to keep alive the memory of the Nazi era and its crimes and to inform citizens and visitors about it. After all, it was here in Munich that the rise of the National Socialist movement began after the First World War. Munich was also the scene of the attempted putsch of 1923 and of Hitler’s subsequent trial. Here Hitler found influential patrons who gave him entry to bourgeois circles. And it was here in 1938 that Goebbels called for the nation-wide pogrom against the Jewish population. After the Nazis seized power in 1933, Munich was chosen by Hitler as the place to celebrate the cult of Nazism and given the titles ‘Capital of German Art’ and ‘Capital of the Movement’.

Further information on the history of National Socialism in Munich:

• The History of National Socialism in Munich
  An Overview
• ThemenGeschichtsPfad "National Socialism in Munich"
  A thematic history trail
• Memorials, Commemorative Sites, Places of Remembrance
  Documentation by Helga Pfoertner (Download)
  
• Victims of Nazi Persecution: Perlacher Forst
  Documentation by Irene Stuiber (Download)
• The "Brown House" - the former Nazi Party Headquarters
  A chronological list with the key dates of the building's history