> John King wrote: > > BTW, let's also not forget that the Freikorps were extremely brutal in > their indiscriminate political violence suppressing left-wing > insurrection. Following the Baltic expedition they were also involved in > politically motivated murder and terrorism.
Yesterday in Berlin there was a big demonstration in memory of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, two of the very few members of the German Reichstag who voted against the First World War (simplified, I know), founded the KPD after the war and werde murdered 90 years ago, on 15/1/19 (or 1/15/19 for Americans) bei Freikorps Officers. All in all the Freikorps' aim wasn't to save democracy at all, no matter what they may or may not have saved whoever from. Greetings from Berlin Olaf
