Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The front page of the Deseret News on Nov. 9, 1923, the day after a young Adolf Hitler attempted a takeover of the German ...

English has adopted the French “coup d’état” and the German “putsch” to describe a small group’s illegal and usually violent attempt to seize governmental power. The congressional report on the Jan. 6 ...

Historian Ullrich (Eight Days in May) argues in this comprehensive chronicle of a tumultuous year in German history that the Weimar Republic was “not condemned to failure from its onset.” Significant ...

In November 1923, Adolf Hitler tried to take advantage of the hyperinflation crisis facing the Weimar government by trying to launch a revolution in Munich – known as the Munich Putsch. It seemed like ...