Munich cultural definition

Capital of Bavaria, located in southern Germany near the Bavarian Alps; a commercial, industrial, transportation, communications, and cultural center.

• Munich was the scene of the Nazi party's rise to power; National Socialism (Nazism) was founded there in 1918, and Adolf Hitler led an attempted revolution in Munich in 1923, the Beer Hall Putsch.
• The Munich Pact, drawn up in 1938, forced Czechoslovakia to give up territory to the Nazis.
• During World War II, the Allies bombed much of the city. After the war, it was the largest city in the American occupation zone.