commemorative postcard issued to mark the 10th anniversary of the Beer Hall Putsch, also known as the Munich Putsch, a failed attempt by the Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler with Erich Ludendorff and other leaders to seize power in Munich, Bavaria, during 89 November 1923. Around two-thousand men marched to the centre of Munich and, in the ensuing confrontation with police forces, sixteen Nazis and four policemen were killed.