100 years ago, the Hitler trial began in Munich - more precisely, the trial against Adolf Hitler and nine co-conspirators because of their attempted coup on September 8th/9th November 1923. The Hitler Putsch lasted less than 24 hours.

The actual trial files, 16 volumes, were deliberately destroyed shortly before the end of the Second World War. In 1998, the former archivist in the Munich State Archives, Reinhard Weber (77) published the verbatim minutes of the trial days - over 1,600 pages.