History As Teacher; We Learn or We Perish
~ Near the end of 1923, an odd, self-absorbed little man was arrested and charged with sedition and treason for his part in what became known as the Beer Hall Putsch*.
The Austrian-born little man had enlisted in the German army, serving during WW1 rising to the rank of corporal but told he would likely go no further because he lacked the necessary character to be a leader.
When the war ended, the man insisted to anyone who would listen that his army superiors were wrong about him and in fact that it was he who knew more about leadership and the military than the generals.
He brought this insistence to the Munich beer hall where, with the help of a few followers, he pushed his way to a co-leadership position in a small(ish) movement towards a coup against the German government.
