I stumbled across this website a while back and absolutely love it. You know how I'm a sucker for then-and-now pictures, and it has a lot of good ones. The pictures in this post probably don't mean much to you if you haven't spent much time here or unless you go to this website. There are 5 pages just of Munich, so make sure you look at all of them. Here it is -- www.thirdreichruins.com/munich
This is the banquet hall in the Hofbrauhaus where Hitler made many speeches. The second picture shows where he used to speak from. It would be directly to the right if you were standing where I took this first picture.
There used to be a gold plaque of him where the light is now and he used to speak right in front of it on a short podium.
This is the Lowenbrau restaurant. The night of the Beer Hall Putsch (rebellion) in 1923, when Hitler decided to take over the Bavarian government, Heinrich Himmler and a group of Storm Troopers (the SA) were here and Hitler called them from the Burgerbraukeller (another bar, but no longer stands) and told them to go to the War Ministry and take it over.
This is the War Ministry building. After Himmler told Hitler that they had control of it, Hitler and 2,000 other men began marching from the Burgerbraukeller to here, but got stopped short after someone called the police and other local Bavarian armies for help.
This is Odeonsplatz, or also known as the Feldernhalle. Hitler and his group were marching to the left of the main building in the middle and the police were where I was standing taking this picture. The police fired on them, killing 16 nazis, but 4 police also died. This is when Hitler was sentenced to prison for treason, but served only about a year and wrote Mein Kampf while he was there.
This is the place where the nazis were stopped and the shooting began. There used to be a large memorial with a swastika on it and guarded by 2 nazi guards to honor the 16 nazis. Every time you would walk by, you were required to give the Heil Hitler salute. There is a small alley behind here that you could avoid this area by, so now it is called "Dodger's Alley" and has gold/bronze bricks memorializing the trail.
This is the Finance building, and still is today. It is across the street from one of my clients, so I walk by it nearly every day for a month or so at a time and believe it or not, I never noticed the eagle until I was going through the third reich website. It is illegal to show a swastika or do the Heil Hitler salute in Germany today, so the eagle is still there, but the swastika in the wreath has been removed. The punishment for saluting is one month's pay.
This is the Fuhrerbau (leadership building) and has a matching building on the other side of the street that was the administration building. This was used for the main government headquarters when the officials weren't in Berlin. The Munich Pact/Agreement was also signed here in 1938 with Mussolini and Neville Chamberlin. The Munich Pact allowed Germany to take over the Sudetenland (Czechoslovakia) and was meant to be a compromise so that he wouldn't take over anything else, but we know how that worked out.
This is the main entrance to the building. There used to be a big eagle above the door and you can still see the patched holes outlining it.
Across from these buildings were the rally grounds for the nazis (Konigsplatz). The plots that are grass now were granite then in order to accentuate the sound of the marching boots. Just imagine this filled with nazi soldiers and huge red banners everwhere.
This is the back of the building. I run right here on this street almost every day and until I found the third reich website, I had no idea about it. But, there is a picture on the website taken just like this showing a bunch of US jeeps right here.
This is the place where the nazis were stopped and the shooting began. There used to be a large memorial with a swastika on it and guarded by 2 nazi guards to honor the 16 nazis. Every time you would walk by, you were required to give the Heil Hitler salute. There is a small alley behind here that you could avoid this area by, so now it is called "Dodger's Alley" and has gold/bronze bricks memorializing the trail.
This is the Finance building, and still is today. It is across the street from one of my clients, so I walk by it nearly every day for a month or so at a time and believe it or not, I never noticed the eagle until I was going through the third reich website. It is illegal to show a swastika or do the Heil Hitler salute in Germany today, so the eagle is still there, but the swastika in the wreath has been removed. The punishment for saluting is one month's pay.
This is the Fuhrerbau (leadership building) and has a matching building on the other side of the street that was the administration building. This was used for the main government headquarters when the officials weren't in Berlin. The Munich Pact/Agreement was also signed here in 1938 with Mussolini and Neville Chamberlin. The Munich Pact allowed Germany to take over the Sudetenland (Czechoslovakia) and was meant to be a compromise so that he wouldn't take over anything else, but we know how that worked out.
This is the main entrance to the building. There used to be a big eagle above the door and you can still see the patched holes outlining it.
Across from these buildings were the rally grounds for the nazis (Konigsplatz). The plots that are grass now were granite then in order to accentuate the sound of the marching boots. Just imagine this filled with nazi soldiers and huge red banners everwhere.
This is the Haus der Deutschen Kunst (German Art Museum). Hitler was an artist himself (well, wanted to be) so opening this museum was a big deal to him. He gave a speech at the grand opening in front of the front door. Again, above the door, there used to be a large eagle, but it has since been covered up by the 2 "whiter" stones above it.
This is the back of the building. I run right here on this street almost every day and until I found the third reich website, I had no idea about it. But, there is a picture on the website taken just like this showing a bunch of US jeeps right here.
This is the art on the ceiling of the oustide and is the original artwork. The same pattern is on the Fuhrerbau. Some say they are interlocking swastikas, but that would be illegal, right? You be the judge. 
This restaurant is Osteria Italiana and used to be Osteria Bavaria and Hitler's favorite lunch spot. So, after the tour, I figured it would only be appropriate to end there as well.
Hitler's favorite seat was where the two men were sitting directly across from me by the window.
There is a small square dedicated to the victims of the nazi party. This is actually a street, but since nobody wants this as their address, the street also has a second name that all the businesses use.
