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Freikorps

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Freikorps

(German: “Free Corps”) Private German paramilitary groups that first appeared in late 1918 after Germany's defeat in World War I. Composed of ex-soldiers and unemployed youth and led by ex-officers, they eventually included over 65 corps of varying sizes. Most were nationalistic and radically conservative, and they were employed unofficially to put down left-wing revolts throughout Germany. Initially sanctioned by the government, they came to be viewed as a nuisance and a threat and were supplanted by regular army and police or absorbed by new units of the Nazis and other political parties.


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The Freikorps which in 1919 fought the communists in southern Swabia led to fear of the communists as well as the old fears about the Catholic Church.
The murderers were members of the Freikorps, "a paramilitary organization from which Hitler's storm troopers were soon to recruit their most promising killers.
Right-wing bands--bands with names like Freikorps, Stuka, Sturmwehr, and Landser--expressed a nostalgia for the days of the Third Reich, a longing after the bittersweet "romance" of lost campaigns, a celebration of the "glorious deeds" of the grandfather generation.
 
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