Hell's Angels
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Caught with an officer's wife, Monte flees a duel, and Roy takes his place and his bullet.
What happened here
Munich was the birthplace of the Nazi party and of Hitler's failed Beer Hall Putsch of November 1923. At the Munich Agreement of September 1938, Britain and France let Germany annex the Sudetenland. On 8 November 1939 Georg Elser's bomb in the Bürgerbräukeller missed Hitler by 13 minutes. In February 1943 Hans and Sophie Scholl of the White Rose were arrested at the university and executed.
Films and series set in Munich
Sophie Scholl – The Final Days
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Sophie and Hans leave stacks of leaflets outside the lecture halls, and Sophie pushes the last ones off the balcony into the atrium.
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Before a screaming judge and a courtroom of uniforms, Sophie calmly tells the court it will soon stand where she stands.
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Allowed a last visit from her parents, Sophie prepares to face the sentence the same day.
13 Minutes
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Night after night Elser hides in the beer hall to hollow out a pillar, and on the anniversary of the 1923 putsch his bomb goes off.
Munich – The Edge of War
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As the conference opens, the two friends try to get the evidence into Chamberlain's hands before he signs.
Events at Munich
Holocaust
Dachau concentration camp opens
The Nazis opened one of their first concentration camps at Dachau, near Munich, first for political prisoners. It became the model for the SS camp system, and at least 32,000 deaths were recorded there before its liberation in 1945.
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Night of the Long Knives
Hitler ordered the SS to murder the leadership of the SA, including Ernst Röhm, along with other rivals and critics. The purge won him the army's backing, and after Hindenburg's death that August he became Führer with absolute power.
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Munich Agreement
Britain, France, Italy and Germany agreed, without Czechoslovakia at the table, to hand the Sudetenland to Hitler. Chamberlain promised 'peace for our time', but the appeasement only convinced Hitler that he could keep expanding.
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