mous they had tried to book an even bigger hall,
they said, but only the Bürgerbräu was available. So
really I had no alternative but to comply.Seduced and blinded by this unsubtle flummery, he ordered his
press chief to provide free beer for the three thousand people he
expected to turn up. Had he known that the reason the other
halls were not available was that the Nazis had booked them all
too (as revolutionary assembly points) and had he known that
he was in fact being invited to attend a revolution, Gustav von
Kahr might well have preferred to stay away.