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10.85- The German Revolution

Revolutions

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The Free Courp Are Playing Basically the Rome

In response, they accelerated a programme of raising what they called the free corps. In most cases, the officers and soldiers who would volunteer for such service had little to look forward to back in civilian life. They jumped at the chance to stay inside the structure of the military and be allowed to vent their aggressions. The free corps will, in time, be an early incubator of the kind of fachism that was taking root in post war europe. So the free courp don't map one to one with the russian black hundreds, but they are playing basically the rome.

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