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| Vanguard of NazismThe Free Corps of Movement in Postwar Germany 1918-1923
Waite, Robert G.L.Publisher:  Harvard University Press, Cambridge Date Written:  01/01/1952
 Year Published:  1952
 Pages:  358pp   ISBN:  9780674931428
 Dewey:  943.085
 Resource Type:  Book
 
 Vanguard of Nazism is the first full history of the German Free Corps and of its contributions to the rise of Nazism.
 
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 Table of Contents
 
 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
 
 
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