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How long did Adolf Hitler actually serve in prison after the Beer Hall Putsch?
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Beer Hall Putsch
Nazi paramilitary troops participating in the Beer Hall Putsch, November 9, 1923.
Following the failed Beer Hall Putsch in 1923, Adolf Hitler was sentenced to five years in prison for high treason. However, he actually served only about nine months of that sentence in the fortress of Landsberg. During this time, he lived in relative comfort and dictated the first volume of his political autobiography, Mein Kampf.12