The body of the latest hero in Portuguese history is brought back to the Lisbon barracks where he was killed last week, the only death in an attempted right-wing coup. The coup itself is a miserable failure. This Week: Portugal: Attempted Coup, Thames TV 1975
The failed revolt shattered the right of centre parties in Portugal. ibid.
On November 8th 1923 Adolf Hitler led the infamous beerhall putsch, an attempt to take power in Germany by force. It was a day that would change the world for ever. Hitler’s Coup 1923, Giles Milton reporting, History 2023
In some ways Hitler’s putsch on 8th/9th November 1923 was a complete failure. It didn’t bring about what he hoped to bring about. It didn’t bring about the national revolution. But without that putsch Hitler may never have come to power. It gave him time to reflect, it gave him time to think about how he would destroy the Wehrmarch regime. ibid.
‘Hitler’s model was of course Mussolini’s march on Rome.’ ibid. Sir Richard Evans
Now he makes a fatal mistake. He leaves the Bierkeller and he leaves the ruling triumvirate of Bavaria in the hands of Ludendorff … Everything starts to unravel. ibid.
On November 9th 1923 Hitler’s attempt to seize power in the Beerhall Putsch had ended in a deadly gun battle in the centre of Munich. ibid.
He’s going to be tried in a people’s court in Bavaria with a very sympathetic judge. ibid.