debeer1-9, Exercise 2: Beer halls and politics

Model answer:

Munich's beer halls were large public rooms in the centre of the city that could hold many people, so they were convenient for meetings in the turbulent years after the First World War. Several parties used them, and the Nazi party held early meetings there; the 1923 putsch began in the Bürgerbräukeller. It would be wrong to blame the halls because they were chosen for their size and location, not for any political character; most people who drank in them were ordinary customers, and the same places later saw acts of resistance, such as Georg Elser's 1939 bomb.