Spartacist uprising
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The Spartacist uprising, also known as the January uprising or, more rarely, Bloody Week, was an armed uprising that took place in Berlin from 5–12 January 1919. It occurred in connection with the Ger
Soldiers on the Brandenburg Gate during the Spartacist uprising
The Spartacus League in a show of force on Berlin's main thoroughfare, 18 December 1918
Emil Eichhorn
Eugen Ernst
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,
Spartacist uprising
…was thus lost. On the same day, Ebert gave Gustav Noske (MSPD) command of the troops in and around Berlin, and calls went out for the formation of more Freikorps units. Since early December 1918, such Freikorps units had been forming from former frontline soldiers and volunteers. Now Ebert and Noske allowed them…
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