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Oktoberfest ( German pronunciation: [ɔkˈtoːbɐˌfɛst] ⓘ; Bavarian: Wiesn, Oktobafest) is the world's largest Volksfest, featuring a beer festival and a travelling carnival, and is held annually in Munich, Bavaria, from mid- or late-September to the first Sunday in October, with more than six million international and national visitors ...
Munich Residenz. The Residenz ( German: [ʁesiˈdɛnts], Residence) in central Munich is the former royal palace of the Wittelsbach monarchs of Bavaria. The Residenz is the largest city palace in Germany and is today open to visitors for its architecture, room decorations, and displays from the former royal collections. Plan of the Residenz.
Munich, a common shorthand for Munich Agreement, the 1938 accord ceding the Sudetenland to Germany. Munich Group is a diplomatic initiative in the Middle East. Alphonse Munchen (1850–1917), engineer and politician from Luxembourg. Munich air disaster, the crash of an aircraft carrying British footballers at Munich-Riem Airport in 1958.
The lesson of Munich, in international relations, refers to the appeasement of Adolf Hitler at the Munich Conference in September 1938. To avoid war, France and the United Kingdom permitted Nazi Germany to incorporate the Sudetenland. Earlier acts of appeasement included the Allied inaction towards the remilitarization of the Rhineland and the ...
Architectural style. Gothic Revival. Location. Munich, Germany. The New Town Hall ( German: Neues Rathaus) is a town hall that forms the northern part of Marienplatz in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. It hosts the city government including the city council, offices of the mayors and a small portion of the administration.
Operation Bayonet [1] ( Hebrew: מבצע זעם האל, romanized : Mivtza Za'am Ha'el, lit. ' Operation Wrath of God ') was a covert operation directed by Mossad to assassinate individuals they accused of being involved in the 1972 Munich massacre. The targets were members of the Palestinian armed militant group Black September and operatives ...
1 civilian killed. The Beer Hall Putsch, also known as the Munich Putsch, [1] [note 1] was a failed coup d'état by Nazi Party ( Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP) leader Adolf Hitler, Generalquartiermeister Erich Ludendorff and other Kampfbund leaders in Munich, Bavaria, on 8–9 November 1923, during the Weimar Republic.
