German Forces

Feldhernnhale

Annual midnight swearing-in of SS troops at Feldherrnhalle, Munich, 1938. . The Feldherrnhalle (Field Lord's Hall) is a monumental loggia on the Odeonsplatz in Munich, Germany. Modeled after the Loggia dei Lanzi in Florence, it was commissioned in 1841 by King Ludwig I of Bavaria to honor the tradition of his army. . In 1923 it was the site of the brief battle that ended Hitler's Beer Hall Putsch. During the Nazi era it served as a monument commemorating the death of 16 members of the Nazi party.