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The article presents information on world politics in the 1920s. An expected monarchist putsch took place in Germany but monarchists were divided into Wittelsbach and Hohenzollern, South German and North German camps and accordingly the first coup failed. Military leader Erich Ludendorff, after all, was a Prussian alien in Munich and Adolf Hitler, leader of the fascist forces, is an Austrian. Theirs was a strange alliance and their beer-house revolution a singularly uninspiring performance. Hitler, firing melodramatically into the air to force attention from a feverish crowd and escaping from an unheroic encounter with the police wounded only by the violence with which he threw himself on the ground when the firing began, has lost his glamour.