• ZombiFrancis
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    11 months ago

    The Freikorps were what? Largely nationalists who were SPD supporters or conservative monarchists?

    Why yes. That’s kind of conveniently accurate here. Thanks for noting that prominently.

    The Kapp Putsch directly led to the ruhr uprising, at which point the Freikorps were absolutely used with the Reichswehr against the communists. So the causes of the Kapp Putsch are rather overshadowed by the results and aftermath.

    After 1919 the Freikorps were largely dissolved, but more importantly the ones that remained rebranded into organizations like the S.A. The architects of the Holocaust were this kind of Freikorps: like Himmler, Bormann, and Heydrich.

    So really: Is it really offensive to note that empowering fascism for whatever reason is a bad idea that just empowers fascism?