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The Treaty of Versailles was the most important of the peace treaties that brought ___MASK32___ to an end . The Treaty ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers . It was signed on 28 June 1919 , exactly five years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand . The other Central Powers on the German side of ___MASK32___ signed separate treaties . Although the armistice , signed on 11 November 1918 , ended the actual fighting , it took six months of Allied negotiations at the Paris Peace Conference to conclude the peace treaty . The treaty was registered by the Secretariat of the League of Nations on 21 October 1919 . Erich Friedrich Wilhelm Ludendorff ( 9 April 1865  20 December 1937 ) was a German general , the victor of the Battle of Liège and the Battle of Tannenberg . From August 1916 , his appointment as Quartermaster general (" Erster Generalquartiermeister ") made him the leader ( along with Paul von Hindenburg ) of the German war efforts during ___MASK32___ until his resignation in October 1918 , just before the end of hostilities . Adolf Hitler ( 20 April 1889  30 April 1945 ) was a German politician who was the leader of the Nazi Party (" Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei "; NSDAP ), Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945 , and Führer (" Leader ") of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945 . As dictator of the German Reich , he initiated ___MASK28___ II in Europe with the invasion of Poland in September 1939 and was central to the Holocaust . The German concept of Lebensraum refers to policies and practices of settler colonialism proliferated in Germany from the 1890s to the 1940s . The most extreme form of this ideology was supported by the Nazi Party ( NSDAP ) in the Third Reich until the end of ___MASK28___ II . First popularized around 1901 , " Lebensraum " became a geopolitical goal of Imperial Germany in ___MASK32___ ( 1914  1918 ) originally , as the core element of the " Septemberprogramm " of territorial expansion .< ref name =" E / N301 "></ ref > The Beer Hall Putsch , also known as the Munich Putsch , and , in German , as the Hitlerputsch or Hitler - Ludendorff - Putsch , was a failed coup attempt by the Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler  along with " Generalquartiermeister " Erich Ludendorff and other " Kampfbund " leaders  to seize power in Munich , Bavaria , during 8  9 November 1923 . About two thousand men marched to the centre of Munich , where they confronted the police , which resulted in the death of 16 Nazis and four policemen . Hitler himself was wounded during the clash . Alfred Ernst Rosenberg ( 12 January 1893  16 October 1946 ) was a Baltic German theorist and an influential ideologue of the Nazi Party . Rosenberg was first introduced to Adolf Hitler by Dietrich Eckart and later held several important posts in the Nazi government . He is considered one of the main authors of key National Socialist ideological creeds , including its racial theory , persecution of the Jews , " Lebensraum ", abrogation of the Treaty of Versailles , and opposition to degenerate modern art . He is known for his rejection of and hatred for Christianity , having played an important role in the development of German Nationalist Positive Christianity . At Nuremberg he was sentenced to death and executed by hanging for war crimes and crimes against humanity . Ludwig Maximilian Erwin von Scheubner - Richter or Max Scheubner - Richter , born Ludwig Maximilian Erwin Richter ( 21 January 1884 -- 9 November 1923 ) was an early member of the Nazi Party . It was Scheubner - Richter along with Alfred Rosenberg who devised the plan to drive the German government to revolution through the Beer Hall Putsch . During the Putsch , he was shot in the lungs and died instantly , at the same time dislocating Hitler ' s right shoulder . Scheubner - Richter was a Baltic German born in Riga , Livonia and lived a large part of his life in the Russian Empire . During the Russian Revolution of 1905 he belonged to one of the private armies set up to fight against the revolutionaries . He married the daughter of a manufacturer whose factory he had guarded . The ' Scheubner ' in his surname was prefixed to his own from his wife ' s family name : an old German form of having one ' s lineage ennobled . During the First ___MASK28___ , he served in Ottoman Turkey as the German vice consul of Erzerum . In addition to holding that post , Scheubner - Richter documented the Turkish massacres of Armenians as part of the Armenian Genocide . Max Erwin von Scheubner - Richter is considered one of the most outspoken individuals against the deportations and subsequent massacres of Armenians . Scheubner - Richter believed that the deportations were based on `` racial hatred '' and that none can survive such a journey . He concluded that the deportations were a policy of `` annihilation '' . After the war he was involved in the Russian counter - revolution . Scheubner - Richter moved to Germany from Russia along with Alfred Rosenberg in 1918 . He was the leader of the Aufbau Vereinigung , a conspiratorial organisation , composed of White Russian émigrés and Völkisch minded German National Socialists . At the end of September 1923 , Scheubner - Richter provided Hitler with a lengthy plan for revolution , writing : `` The national revolution must not precede the seizure of political power ; the seizure of the state ' s police power constitutes the promise for the national revolution '' and `` to lay hands on the state police power in a way that is at least outwardly legal '' . During the Beer Hall Putsch , walking arm - in - arm with Hitler , he was shot in the lungs and died instantly as Hitler and others marched toward armed guards on 9 November 1923 . He had brought Hitler down and dislocated Hitler ' s right shoulder when he fell . He was the only first - tier Nazi leader to die during the Putsch . Of all the early party members who died in the Putsch , Adolf Hitler had claimed Scheubner - Richter to be the only `` irreplaceable loss '' . The first part of Hitler ' s book Mein Kampf is dedicated to Scheubner - Richter and the other fifteen men who died in the Putsch .