Why Did The Munich Putsch Change

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The Munich Putsch had completely changed what was going on at the time . Hitler rethought everything that he was doing after that event. He changed his view from a revolution like mussolini did to doing it within the law and the constitution by getting a majority in the Reichstag . Hitler said "Instead of working to achieve power by an armed coup we shall have to hold our noses and enter the Reichstag against the Catholic and Marxist deputies. If outvoting them takes longer than outshooting them, at least the results will be guaranteed by their own Constitution! Any lawful process is slow. But sooner or later we shall have a majority – and after that Germany". Even though Hitler hated the idea he knew it was the only possible option that was left. …show more content…

In 1928 the Reichstag elections the Nazi party also known as NSDAP won 12 seats. Then in 1933 they had a 230 seat in the Reichstag. This showed that the change of mindset was helpful to the Nazi party to gain its majority and without this change he probably would not have not got anywhere. The Munich Putsch was responsible for the political changes done to get the seats in the 1933 election. The Putsch was directly responsible for these changes because after the change in plans of the Nazi party because without the putsch the Nazi party would still be trying to get power through a revolution which would not have succeeded. Others would argue that the results of the election was not credible to the Putsch because it merely showed that the aggressive way was not the way to go, but Hitler and the Nazis change the Political strategies and did all the work to achieve the seats in the 1933