Freikorps
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Freikorps were German paramilitary militias formed in the aftermath of World War I and during the German Revolution of 1918–19. Freikorps units consisted primarily of demobilised soldiers, young men,
Freikorps paramilitaries in Berlin, 1919
1919 ad for Freikorps volunteers
Minister of the Reichswehr, Gustav Noske, visits the Freikorps Hülsen in Berlin in January 1919.
Provisional Freikorps armored vehicle in Berlin during the Kapp Putsch of March 1920
Kapp Putsch
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The Kapp Putsch, also known as the Kapp–Lüttwitz Putsch, was an abortive coup d'état against the German national government in Berlin on 13 March 1920. Named after its leaders Wolfgang Kapp and Walthe
Freikorps
…also largely despised the Republic and were involved in assassinations of its supporters, later aiding the Nazis in their rise to power. Following the Kapp Putsch in 1920, most Freikorps units were forcibly dissolved by the government, with Freikorps paramilitants often ending up in other conservative or nationalist…
Marinebrigade Ehrhardt entering Berlin during the Putsch
Government poster written against the Kapp Putsch, 13 March 1920.
Walther von Lüttwitz (centre) and Gustav Noske (right), c. 1920
Wolfgang Kapp, the leader of the Putsch