• GenEcon@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Freikorps is just a german word for people fighting without monetary compensation. Frei = free and Korps = corps.

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        1 year ago

        Which was never used pre third reich and therefore has a huge historical weight.

        Ask a german about Freikorps and they most likely will think of Napoleon, not the third reich.

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          1 year ago

          the Freikorps put down the Sparticist revolt by the communist wing of the SDP. they later became the base for the brownshirts but that’s not where the term was used.