In 1923, Adolf Hitler attempted a coup at a beer hall in Munich. He got away with a slap on the wrist and held rallies at the beer hall celebrating the coup’s anniversary.
In 1939, Georg Elser tried and failed to kill Hitler at one of the rallies. Elser was caught and held at Dachau concentration camp, where he was eventually murdered.
The beer hall was demolished in 1979. The site is an arts center and hotel. The only remnant of the site’s infamy is a plaque in a public courtyard. It honors Elser.
German text: An dieser Stelle, im ehemaligen Bürgerbräukeller, versuchte der Schreiner Johann Georg Elser am 8. November 1939 ein Attentat auf Adolf Hitler. Er wollte damit dem Terror-Regime der Nationalsozialisten ein Ende setzen. Das Vorhaben scheiterte. Johann Georg Elser wurde nach 5 1/2 Jahren Haft am 9. April 1945 im Konzentrationslager Dachau ermordet.
English translation text: On this site, in the erstwhile Bürgerbräukeller, on November 8, 1939, the carpenter Johann Georg Elser made an attempt on the life of Adolf Hitler. He intended therewith to put an end to the terror regime of the National Socialists. The attempt failed. After 5 1/2 years of imprisonment, Johann Georg Elser was murdered on April 9, 1945, in the Dachau concentration camp.
Every year Munich’s city government awards the Georg Elser Prize to honor courageous acts in support of democracy.