Vanguard of Nazism: The Free Corps of Movement in Postwar Germany 1918-1923 - Softcover

Waite, Robert G. L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393001814 ISBN 13: 9780393001815

Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company, 1969

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RO60075386. VANGUARD OF NAZISM, THE FREE CORPS MOVEMENT IN POSTWAR GERMANY, 1918-1923. 1969. In-8. Broché. Bon état, Couv. légèrement passée, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 344 pages.. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon

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The Free Corps Movement had its origins in the pre-war youth movement and on the battlefields of the war. The returning soldiers, embittered by defeat, believing themselves betrayed by a cowardly government, and psychologically incapable of demobilizing, formed into volunteer bands throughout Germany. These groups, immensely powerful by 1919, were hired by the newly established Weimar Republic to fight against the Communists. They fought for the Republic (which they despised) from Munich to Berlin, from Düsseldorf to the Baltic. When the Republic tried to disband them, they went underground until they emerged in Hitler's Germany.

The savage actions and warped ideology of the men whom Hermann Goering called "the first soldiers of the Third Reich" are revealed in this book by contemporary newspaper accounts, government documents, and previously untranslated memoirs of the Free Corp fighters themselves. With this material, Mr. Waite substantiates the thesis that National Socialism began in the months and years immediately following World War I, and that the history of the Free Corps Movement--its ideas, attitudes, and organization--is an indispensable part of Germany's history in the inter-war period and the Second World War.

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• Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1969
• ISBN 10: 0393001814
• ISBN 13: 9780393001815
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 356