Evolution of Munich as a city

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Munich : A City of Sorrow , Politics , and Culture

In 1923 , Adolf Hitler and the National Socialists marched to Munich in an attempt to overthrow the Munich government . The Weimar government ed the army to quell the revolt . Hitler was arrested and several high-ranking members of the Nazi Party were incarcerated

In 1933 , Munich became once again the power center of the National Socialists after Hitler 's assumption to power . The Nazi Party established the first internment camp (usually for political prisoners at Dachau

, several kilometers north of the city . Because Munich was the power center of National Socialism , it was called `capital of the movement ' The Nazis built several monumental buildings south of the city to commemorate fallen comrades in the 1923 putsch

Westerners call Munich as `the city of political distress ' It was in Munich that Neville Chamberlain agreed to cede Czechoslovak territory to Hitler . And it was also the site where Hitler announced his desire to annex Austria into the German Reich . Indeed , in some instances , the city was referred to as the `city of sorrow ' But this generalization is unfounded . Munich was also the headquarters of the White Rose , the Nazi resistance movement . During the Second World War , the city was severely damaged by air raids . Several of the city 's heritage buildings were either damaged or destroyed

After the Allies occupied Munich in 1945 , the city was rebuilt . General George Marshall allocated a staggering 100 million dollars for the reconstruction of...