The Beer Hall Putsch, a large scale Nazi Party attempt at overthrowing the Weimar government combined with far right German support, began when Adolf Hitler with 603 members of the Nazi Party surrounded ll, Der Bürgerbräukeller, where Bavaria's State Commissioner Gustav Ritter von Kahr was making a speech to 3,000 people. Hitler declared his revolution was aimed at "the Berlin Jew government and the November criminals of 1918". More Nazi revolutionaries waited in another beer hall, the Lowenbraukeller.
Hitler declared that General Erich Ludendorff would form a new government. Ludendorff was descending into extreme anti Christianity, although he also held animosity towards Jews as well.
Following that, while the Nazi forces grew, they were disordered and without direction. Some were arrested early on by German authorities, and a large Nazi force was turned back by a small Reichswehr and police detail. Both Hitler and Ludendorff would be arrested.
The revolution failed by midday the following day, but set the stage for Hitler's rise to power as an extreme right wing figure.
The Imperial Conference ended with an agreement that the British Dominions would be allowed to enter into their own treaties with foreign governments, a major concession.
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