The defendants in the trial against 40 members of the "Stosstrupp Adolf Hitler" (Assault Detachment Adolf Hitler) before the Volksgericht München (People's Court Munich). The Stosstrupp was a paramilitary unit that had participated in the failed Beer Hall Putsch staged by Adolf Hitler in November 9, 1923. Among the men in this picture are Erhard Heiden, who was Heinrich Himmler's predecessor as chief of the SS, Karl Fiehler, who served as mayor of Munich from 1933 to 1945, Hitler's long-time adjutant Julius Schaub, Hitler's Bon Ami Emil Maurice and Walter Hewel who acted as State Secretary in the German Foreign Office and liaison in between Hitler and the Foreign Office during World War Two.