- 1. The Revolutionary Setting and the Arrival of Noske
- The Ebert-Groener Conversations
- The Imperial Army Fails to Crush the Radicals
- The Arrival of Noske
- 2. Origins of the Free Corps
- The Inheritance of the Prewar Youth Movements
- The Inheritance of the War
- The Stab in the Back
- 3. Organization and Character of the Free Corps
- Noske Collects His Army
- Reasons for Entering the Free Corps
- The Captains and Lieutenants
- Twentieth-Century Freebooters
- The Bourgeois Revolt against a Bourgeois World
- 4. The Free Corps Crush Leftist Revolts
- The Conquest of Berlin, January 1919
- The Free Corps Defend the National Assembly
- The Free Corps Crush Sporadic Revolts
- The Week of Bloodshed in Berlin
- The Conquest of Munich, May 1919
- 5. The Baltic Adventure
- The Loss of Posen
- The Call of the Baltic
- The Spring Offensive of 1919
- The Putsch of April 16, 1919
- Reaction against the Free Corps
- Revolt and Entry into Russian Service
- Defeat and Return to the Reich
- 6. The Service of Reaction: The Kapp Putsch
- The March on Berlin
- Background of the Putsch
- The Ides of March, 1920
- The Failure of the Kapp Putsch
- Free Corps Reaction to the Putsch
- 7. In the Service of the Republic: The Kapp Aftermath
- The Ebert-Seeckt Conversations
- The Ruhr Intervention
- The Severing Negotiations
- Free Corps Victory
- 8. The Free Corps Underground: “The War in Darkness”
- Freebooters and the 100,000 Men Army
- In the Shaddows of Illegality
- “Compromising with Bürgerlich Activity”
- The Freebooters as Leaders of Youth
- “Traitors Fall to the Feme!”
- The Free Corps in Upper Silesia
- The French Occupation of the Ruhr: Albert Leo Schiageter
- 9. Der Tag, 1923
- The Black Reichswehr
- The Kustrine Putsch
- The Beer Hall Putsch
- Failure in 1923
- 10. Conclusion
- The Freebooters as Political Soldiers
- “We Bolshevists of the Right”
- From Reaction to Action
- Freebooters in Brown Shirts
- Appendix
- Bibliography
- Index
HARVARD HISTORICAL STUDIES

Harvard Historical Studies 60
Vanguard of Nazism
The Free Corps Movement in Postwar Germany, 1918-1923
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Publication Date: 01/01/1952