Who were the freikorps?

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the /pol/cucks of their time. Along with the communists.

They had autism.

Explain

Heroes

asking questions on Veeky Forums with regards to the germans is pointless, since the board is 50% frogs and 50% poolacks

Protofascists

I'd say 50% anglos rather than poolacks

The unfortunate truth

BASED Germanic heros who saved Germany and almost saved Russia.

Some of them literally larped as 30 years war soldiers.

Imagine soldiers coming from Irak who won't get a job and they join a group and start beating bernie supporters

Kek sounds bretty funny

>Actual combat equals larping

Are u just pretending to be retarded?

A political militia. This a common thing in the 20's.

Sounds fun as fuck t b h.
>you'll never go around smashing rad fems, trannies, and whiny tankies with your friends

I don't care if you're actually shooting people, dressing up like a soldier from a conflict 300 years prior is fucking autistic.

>dressing up like a soldier from a conflict 300 years prior
Do you even know what the Freikorps is?

Anti-communist paramilitaries formed by former WWI soldiers and radicalized right-wing students that stopped the Jewish takeover of Germany following its defeat.

Heroes.

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What one might consider to be the right wing militias of the time similar to those we have nowadays. They were mostly comprised of moderates, socialists, and right wing army vets who saw bolshevism and communism as a threat to the country that would cause chaos and anarchy. Since all formal government had collapsed and the army was nonexistent the weak SOCIALIST government handed out weapons from army barracks and arsenals. The Freikorps routed the Spartacists and other Communist and Bolshevist groups and executed their leaders and members. They then conducted raids and fought against territorial incursions against the poles, lithuanins, and latvians. Several even served in white forces in russia. Eventually the league of nations told german government to stop the Freikorps from doing cross border fighting. The German goverment later dissolved the Freikorps after some of them turned on the goverment (think various putschs). A very interesting subject and I'm glad you asked user.

There is so much wrong with this image, it's hard to know when to begin.

First, Clara Zetkin and Karl Leibnecht weren't Jewish, and the other choices of communist leaders is very selective. Radek barely had anything do with the Sparticist revolt.

Second, the Communist uprising was in 1919, not 1918. It was against the Weimar Republic, not the German Empire, and Ludendorf was not in power at the time.

Third, it was not the origin of the stab-in-the-back myth. That was the original November 1918 revolution that established the Weimar Republic.

Good points user

Not to mention Ludendorf did not command, nor was he a part of any Freikorps organization. The closest to that was that he was part of the Kapp Putsh in 1920, an attempted coup against the government.

The Spartacist Revolt was quickly put down and in fact was not the major threat to the Weimar government at the time compared to the other Communist uprisisngs.

The picture labled german citizens are in fact communists. The picture labeled German soldiers are not german soldiers because the army was not functioning at the time due to demilitarizations. And both photographs labeled German Nationalists are in fact Freikorps with those in the lederhosen being members of Freikorps Werdenfels.

Also the government was run by the Socialist SPD party which had been democratically elected.

Daily reminder that the SPD was right about literally everything.

There were jews in the Freikorps lel.

Many Stormtrooper officers were of Jewish origins and were just as angry towards the "losers" back home, which they blamed on socialist-communists.

Freikorps are hard to pin down. They weren't all right wing. Many socialists served in freikorps, especially in the Baltic campaigns. Ernst von Salomon writes about it in his semi autobiographical account of the freikorps called the Outlaws. There were monarchist freikorps (von lettow-vorbeck), proto fascist freikorps (Ehrhardt, Roßbach, von Epp) and there were also a myriad of smaller freikorps that varied greatly in their membership. Many did have a right wing tinge, and especially after 1921, most were definitely anti-democracy. Their movement went under ground in the form of the organization Consul, which held secret trials called the feme, which sentenced their enemies to death. Their victims were then assassinated. Later on in 1933 Hitler forced many freikorps leaders to submit to the Nazi party. Some agreed and others refused. Those that refused were marked for death in the night of the long knives. They were later rehabilitated. After ww2 they disappeared and became largely overshadowed by the Nazis

>Some of them literally larped as 30 years war soldiers.
Sounds awesome, to be quite honest you with you, mein freund.

Militias formed from former Imperial troops, essentially debris of WW1 that couldn't reintegrate into society and were often hired as mercenaries by the state to suppress communists uprising.
The first Freikorps were formed in Estonia and Latvia by remaining troops fighting against both the independence movements and Soviet invaders with the goal to create a German state in the Baltics

>big german problem was rehabilating soldiers when they got home, compared to other countries
>can't hold a job because of war trauma
>media tells you jews and communists are why you're dead inside
>meet up with people you used to serve with
>pikey some army equipment you took home or is there for the taking
>shoot up some Spartaboos
>organise your own coup
>get kicked out by the proletariat

The freikorps actually did shit though.

Terrorists

So are you frong or polack?

>jewish takeover

little bird brains detected

If the internet and reddit existed in 1919 they would probably have shitposted and pretended to be 4channers as well

>stab in the back used to refer to the socialists supposedly selling out germany
>/pol/cucks now use it to portray some jewish conspiracy against the german state

You simply feed ammunition to the zionists when they dog whistle about the never ending shoah, you stupid fucks

I would probably do the same tbqh