Contents

Munich, 1923–1924: Cast of Characters

Prologue

Part I: The Beer Hall

1. Bürgerbräukeller

2. Starving Trillionaires

3. Four Bullets

4. German Ulysses

5. “Loud, Raw, and Screeching”

6. Sparkling Metropolis

7. Harvard’s Gift

8. The New Regime

9. “Safely Delivered”

10. Counter-Putsch

11. Initiative

12. Barbarian Hordes

13. Midnight in Munich

14. Ordinance No. 264

15. “I Am Not a Coward”

16. Hour of Decision

17. In the Courtyard

18. Hitler’s Foreign Legion

19. Blood Land

20. Flight

21. Hostage Ordeal

22. New November Criminals

23. Testament

24. Curtains

25. Trials Before the Trial

Part II: The Courtroom

26. “We Will Not Hurt Germany!”

27. Defendant Hitler

28. Confessions and Distortions

29. Behind Closed Doors

30. The Defense Attacks

31. A Masterpiece of Ignorance

32. Cup of Bitterness

33. Dr. Frick

34. First Witnesses

35. The Prosecutor’s Misfortunes

36. Priorities

37. “Peculiar Gentlemen”

38. A Dangerous Game

39. Avoiding the Rubble

40. Day Thirteen

41. A Putsch, Not a Putsch

42. Blow-Up

43. Hints

44. Hitler’s Bodyguard Takes the Stand

45. Volte-Face

46. “Good Times for Traitors”

47. From Munich to Valhalla

48. Final Words

49. Endings and Beginnings

50. Nomen Est Omen

Part III: Prison

51. Caesar in Cell 7

52. Face-to-Face

53. Lies, Stupidity, and Cowardice

54. “A Perpetual Danger”

Epilogue

Acknowledgments

Notes and Sources

Illustration Credits

Illustrations

Index