unich and proclaiming a new regime using their names, the coup was not successful. The officials were allowed to escape and regain control of the police and the armed forces. The coup was ended on the morning of November 9th, when armed police halted a column of three thousand SA men headed by Hitler and General Ludendorff on their way to the center of Munich. Hitler fled the scene and was later arrested and charged with treason. After his trial for treason he was sentenced to five years in Landsberg prison. During his term in prison Hitler began dictating his thoughts and philosophies to Rudolf Hess, which became the book Mein Kampf. In Mein Kampf, Hitler divides humans into categories based on physical appearance, establishing higher and lower orders, or types of humans. At the top, according to Hitler, is the Germanic man with his fair skin, blond hair and blue eyes. Hitler refers to this type of person as an Aryan. He asserts that the Aryan is the supreme form of human or master race. In Hitler’s thinking, if there is a supreme form of human, then there must be others less than supreme or racially inferior. Hitler assigns this position to Jews and the Slavic peoples, notably the Czechs, Poles, and Russians. Hitler stated that the Aryan is culturally superior. Hitler describes the struggle for world domination as an ongoing racial, cultural, and political battle between Aryans and Jews. He outlines his thoughts in detail, accusing the Jews of conducting an international conspiracy to control world finances, controlling the press, inventing liberal democracy as well as Marxism, promoting prostitution and vice, and using culture to spread disharmony. Throughout Mein Kampf, Hitler refers to Jews as parasites, liars, dirty, crafty, sly, wily, clever, without any true culture, a sponger, a middleman, a maggot, eternal bloodsuckers, repulsive, unscrupulous, and the mortal enemy of Aryan humanity. This conspiracy idea an...
