The Freikorps: How Germany Almost Fell to Communism & the Men Who Stopped It | Countryball History
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- 📢What happened to Germany after the end of the first World War? A communist revolution, that’s what! But it failed because of the Freikorps: private citizens, war veterans, and patriots who organized private militias to stop the revolution and save Germany from communism. But could such a movement really maintain its discipline and prevent radicalization or civilian casualties? Also, Adolf Hitler almost gets murdered by a pack of ravenous communists. Help us make more videos like this one on: 👀
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Good research
Great video! Are you ever gonna do a video on Animal Farm?
PLS DO LATVIA WAR OF INDEPENDENCE
do you know any good history books
it's a shame you didn't talk about the Thule society and Sebottendorf during the Munich riot part of the video because his trolling on the homefront contributed a lot to the shenanigans of that time.
the reason the Freikorps were so brutal was because they were recruited from mostly battle hardened veterans that lost all empathy in the trenches
history's greatest fighters. the mentally ill
You don't say...
Didn't they also hire parents and middle class workers as well?
Volunteers who were giben many rights by the new government
There's a lot of men with military experience and training in post-war Europe at the time. The armies are huge at the time, entire generations of men are given military training and take part in the conscript armies. Every little movement can get people with army training.
The more I learn about post WWI Germany, the fact that the republic lasted as much as it did is kind of a miracle
study how the goverment was build/structured ... it was a miracle ^^
It was destined to fail from the first day.
Yeah and how adolf hilter survived many times in history
@@dave_sic1365 it is as if the Allies wanted nazis to rise to power
It helps that its biggest bulwark of republicanism and democracy happens to be the Free State of PRUSSIA which also happens to be the biggest of the federal states. The Nazis fully understood that for Germany to fall in line, they have to have Prussia...
"This enraged the Freikorps who proceeded to overthrow the government" is the new, better version of "This enraged his father who punished him severely"
EYYYY, OVERSIMPLIFIED REFERENCE
It's like how the Satsuma rebellion started.
This enraged fuer’s father who punished him severely
oversimplified nice.
In fact it's the old, original version
The Latvians arrested the Freikorps so they wouldn't overthrow the government
This enranged the Freikorps who responded by overthrowing the government
Self fufilling prophacy really
Sounds about right.
Uncommon freikorp w
The Weimar Republic was the Battle Royal of political ideologies
Thank God Germany didn't became communist. Oh wait it practically did. national-SOCIALISM
@@EllinikiDimokratia Which has no relation to communism you re...ard. They're both cancer but they're not related in the slightest no mater what right wing mor...ns claim.
BuT iT hAs SoCiAliSM iN ItS NaMe. Which would mean something if Gregor Strasser had won the internal power struggles, but he'd didn't, so STFU.
@@EllinikiDimokratia and Shepherd's pie are made out of SHEPHERDS EY?
"Ignorance is bliss, but knowledge is freedom"
@@EllinikiDimokratia oh you didn't say that...
@@EllinikiDimokratia Eh it was neither entirely socialist or capitalist
Latvia: "You're going to overthrow the government aren't you!? ARREST THEM!"
Freikorps: "That's outrageous! You can't do that!"
*Freikorps proceed to overthrow the government*
Ppp
In war, deception is usex to take the enemy by suprise and greatly reduce your own casualites, while multiplying that of your enemy, depending on your tactics and execution of attack.
Soviet German Rebels Dead
USSR: oh well i tried
Poland :=ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Poland : I don’t feel pain now?
Germany : communist! Taking over?
Freikorps : nein!
Well it was latvias fault
Germany: wait, which political group are we fighting again?
Every single armed person in Germany in 1918-1919: all of them at once, I supposed
Germany's system was always brutally right wing, so the enemy of course was and is on the left. Especially 100 years ago, with all the monarchists still everywhere around, the idea of openly giving the power to the people was like asking as a slaveholder to just give up all on slaves and wealth and becoma a normal worker. No chance.
She was a jewess.
@@miriamweller812 well glnazism is a left wing system.
@@filipnalewaja5609 Nazisim isn't left wing, it is very right wing
@@casualjoe1264 IT is left wing its very simmilar to communism.
While I do find it funny to portray Rosa Luxembourg as a Luxembourg ball, my history nerd values compel me to comment that she was in fact Polish.
Eh doesn’t really matter now she fucked around and found out
think again
@Fooly Cooly Polish Jew, point still stands
@@nevets2371 both Poles and Polish Jews would probably prefer that distinction were acknowledged, but whatever, you do you.
@@theanonymousmrgrape5911 that's dumb, but probably true
9:55 that's the 4th time Hitler was ment to be killed but got saved again.
That piece of sh*t had 9 lives, I tell you.
The heck
Destiny
@@Woldmord neo nazi time travelersprobably
@@Woldmord as a time traveler. I confirm
key thing that is forgot, the freikorps were veterans, they barely got no social help for the damages they got from the war, and they saw the nation that they sacrificed so much for fall, which might have droven many crazy
Help? That sounds pretty communist to me. We don't like this on this channel, it should be pretty apparent that the maker of this video is a fascist
@@hex2637 dude im a monarchist
I guess they turned their weapons on the wrong people then. Wasn't socialists who sent them into a meatgrinder
@@Sven73524 Based!
Bring back the kaiser monarchies number 1
You forgot to mention the role of freikops in the Finnish civil war, they freed Helsinki. 🇫🇮
That's because this was mostly wikipedia-level propaganda.
@@gratefulguy4130Mind explaining how?
@Dave the only way I can see how is the simplification of the 1919 revolution. Lumping them as communist instead of listing out every ideology fighting in the revolts.
"Freed" is a stretch, considering that the side they fought for was pretty repressive in its own right. Look up the White Terror.
I think he should make a video about this war
A fairly accurate summary, however, the Freikorps also played an important role in fending off Polish attempts to carve out more pieces of the territory that remained with Germany after the Treaty of Versailles.
Poland wonders why nobody liked them during the 20th century, lol. Trying to invade Germany & The Soviets.
These territories had polish population?
@@julioalbertoherrera1339 No, what remained German after Versailles was almost exclusively inhabited by Germans. Of course there were some dispersed Poles, but not enough to threaten public order. The bulk of the insurgents came across the border.
You’re one of the few UA-camrs to talk about the post World War I chaos. Using Polandball makes the history so much much more fun to learn.
A few Months ago I didn't even know all this stuff happened after The Great war I just thought the Russian Civil war happened
@@somethingtoputonpizza6667 1918-1923 could be its own chapter in world history.
@@nathanseper8738 it is its called the inter war period
@@nathanseper8738 it's already on my Top 5 most Interesting chapters in History
@@somethingtoputonpizza6667 Yep.
Bavaria: "Oh thank god! we're saved!"
Freikorps: "I wouldn't say saved..."
(edit) how the heck did this get up to 1.2k? lol
“…More like, under new management.”
Freikorps: "We're here to save you!"
Bavaria: "Oh thank god it's the Freikorps!"
Freikorps: "From yourselves!"
Bavaria: "Oh god it's the Freikorps"
Communists: not quite......(years later creates East Germany)
These Freikorps is like a nazi force except it stopped a ideoyology that could have prevented ww2
@@mjatriumxironreign8969 I understand the reason but that is looking from hindsight
The Allies after the war, limiting the size of the german army to 100.000, thereby making 300.000 soldiers unemployed and hindering the government from keeping public order in a completely destabilized country: „what could possibly go wrong?“
Bold of you to assume that things going wrong was not the intended outcome.
@@bruhbruh-us6gl👃
It was even worse the German army was literally millions of men by the end of the war and suddenly most have no job
@@bruhbruh-us6gl what would the allies gain from that lol
@@SenkaBandit
Britain gets rid of a competitor on the international stage, France gets rid of its biggest threat and secures its eastern border.
*"Ah yes, our nation is failing, we must invade Switzerland over this!"*
Well sometimes the best way to unify your people is by giving them a common enemy.
But this was the idea of a lonley loony in Bavaria. So, I guess, you got something wrong. If you wanna know who was failin', have a look on the Americans, during the Versailles peace negotiations in 1919. The Frogs get at most their will and the Yanks lacked on toughness, to create a fair peace. Only the Brits had a bad conscience about how the war had been fought and how vindictive the French were. In the end at home, on the other side of the pond, the House turned down what the idiot Wilson had done and the US and Germany made a separat peace in 1921, the so called peace of Berlin...
Because as well all know, Switzerland is the source of all evil in the world
It looks like this channel has a really speciality for interwar period History. I think you should make a video on how the allied powers reacted to the soviets invading Poland and why they fought the Germans but not the Russians.
They fought the Germans because they were the more immediate threat before ww2. And they didn’t fight the soviets as that would’ve given Germany an extra ally(even if it were an alliance ice of convenience) and they expected Germany and the ussr to fight each other at some point after splitting Poland.
@@np7736 I know but I’d still like to see a video on it just cause.
N p
The germans really weren't a threat to us.
It also has a specialty for making Nazi paramilitaries look good
i really like the interwar period, half of europe was in absolute chaos with countless civil wars, revolts, uprisings, people going mad over new borders, rise of radical ideologies in major countries, 4 empires collapsing and not even counting the stuff that happened outside of europe, yet its extremely forgotten in the bigger picture as people want to go straight from ww1 to ww2
From how unstable the Weimar Republic was it would be really interesting to have a video game set during it's time. I can think of starting off as a soldier either deciding to stick with the current failing democracy, fight for many of the radical political parties (even the NSADP) or doing neither and resorting to a life of crime in the midst of all the chaos.
Dammit, yet another instance of Hitlers ungodly luck.
Hitler has plot armor
@@genghiskhan5701 *had
@@genghiskhan5701 Only 1 man had the ability to overcome his plot armor.
@@RambleOn07 Hitler him self
@@samp2651 Yeah you lose plot armor at the end of the story
Could you possibly talk about the Assyrians whom were led by Agha Petros in northern iraq who fought against the Ottoman Empire during ww1? It is a interesting topic
Holy shit I always forget that the Assyrians were around after the classical era.
@@chrisriverata1917 we’re still here kicking and screaming
@@chrisriverata1917 Well after Timur the Lame there wasn't nearly as much as there used to be. It's pretty insane when you Genocide the Christians so hard that there's basically a population collapse.
@@youmelhermiz5638 hell yeah brother, war chariots >>>>>>>> anything else that was ever invented
@@chrisriverata1917 it always saddens me how much Assyrians, Arameans and Armenians have been replaced by Kurds, Turks and Arabs.
Hey Ezekiel DO NOT STOP putting out great videos like this There are 2 things that stand out about your videos that make you unique from all other Channels please do not stop doing them.
1. Unique way and creative use of Countryball Animation
2. The fact you do topics like Post WW1 like right after that NO ONE TALKS ABOUT like German Empire Reaction to Soviet Union Please keep doing these topics people always skip over they are far more interesting then The 1000th video of the invasion of Poland in 1939
Agreed.
Post WW1 history is very obscured I love to hear more of it!
If your interested in the topic I recommend the “Great War” channel. Back in the day they did a week by week breakdown of the entire First World War on the hundredths anniversary of that week. After the end of the war, the main host moved over to a World War Two channel breaking down that war week by week upon its anniversary. There is a new host upon the channel covering the after war effects. If you want I can even provide you a channel that breaks down the Franco Prussian War down week by week upon its certain anniversary as well.
@@connoreddings1314
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can you give a link of the video that you referred to that talked about German Empire's Reaction to Soviet Union? I can't just which video it is from the titles in his video list. Thanks!
Nobody really talks about Germany being in a effective civil war following the armistice of 1918.
Eisner's solution to food shortages is the most stereotypical leftist thing I've heard of
I had the same thoughts as you when I heard it.
What kind of anti-commie propaganda bs is this?damn we should be hating the freikorps cause if they didnt exist than ww2 might not have happenes
@@mjatriumxironreign8969 idiot, last thing the world needed was another Soviet Union, this time in the center of Europe.
He was also Jewish. Like many of the communists.
Not saying later things were great, but it's easy to see why Germans thought the way they did
@@johnjaeger2968 Exactly.
"There were also Jews in the Friekorps"
Jewish Friekorp member: "how do you do fellow anti-semites?"
Some of them would have been wise guys who saw which way the wind was blowing, given the identity of the revolutionary leadership and the all but inevitable reprisals. Same types who joined the Party later on.
The Europe wide rise in anti-semitism followed the great depression, not WWI. Many jews fought in WWI for either side.
They managed the team cash register ;.)
I wonder if Jin-Roh is based on them; even down to their purge in manga.
That very interesting idea …would say their are kinda based on them.
That universe is based on an alt history where Japan sided with the allies and lost to Germany don't ask me how that happened. The Kerberos Panzer cops are descended from the doctrines learned from that world's Germany and act as the political enforcers separate from both the military and police. Jin Roh depicts them at the height of their power but the other entries focus on their eventual decline.
The only similarities are
1. obvious German inspirations
2. They both were *enemies of the revolution*
Mostly the anime is just Mamoru Oshii’s narrative on Japan in 70’s turmoil transitioning to 80’s peace and 90’s bubble burst.
Long live the Freikorps
uh, no
It's so interesting how fast the general right can so quickly and easily just unify compared to the general left
When you've a kink for hierarchy it's easy to fall behind someone that claims to be stronger
@@nathanbyrne9457 yeah that makes sense, no idea why you used the word "kink" though.
@@programofuse8731 Sure not everyone on the right has a 'kink' for it ... per se; but we've all met the kind of people who absolutely get the nipple clamps out when there's a guy to get behind. Think about it too long and you'll never hear "I like Ike" the same again.
The right loves clear structures. The left is against that (all equal, etc). And given that there are 10 left ideologies for 1 right, unified fighting is a lot more difficult
@@alexanderzippel8809 As the old saying goes " Prick a liberal; a fascist bleeds".
I STILL don't understand why people are so hung up about others being anti-communist. Being fervently against communism should seem like common sense, considering how much the world has lost, and is continuing to lose, because of the ideology and it's adherents. Being anti-communist does not equate to being pro fascism/ethnic nationalism, and so on.
It is because being anti communist shows you are illiterate and only listen to capitalist propaganda
They caused the rise of nazism and marxist leninist regimes indirectly with their so called anticomunism ,i don't know how many milions of death in their hands,well they were not particularly smart
A kid : *burst out laughter*
The 2 soldiers : And we took that personally
To the Reds spamming this comment section: you are next.
"CommuNiStS aRe GenOCidal"
Right wingers:
Mauser, what happened to freedom of speech my guy?
@@Archevox Your attempts to hide behind values you do not believe in are far too easily noticed.
@@ArchevoxCommunists have always been the pawns of UItra-Rich bankster-led coIIectivists pushed a 1-PoIe WorId.
@@Archevoxfreespeech and human rights are for humans. Communists doesnt count
Reading about the Freikorps and the post world war 1 chaos really helps put the events of the 1930s in Germany and Eastern Europe in perspective.
So many of the leaders that fought on the Eastern Front in World War 2 were impressionable young men during the haydey of the Freikorps and the atrocity laden sprees through Europe.
We are rightly horrified by the atrocities committed in Eastern Europe during World War 2...but to these old Freikorps veterans, the actions were nothing new. This was what they had done before and it had worked (so they thought) to keep the Communists from ruining their homes.
Also, this helps to explain the rise of the NSDAP, as that group presented initially as a moderate version of the Freikorps.
yep famously many members of the nazi elite, like ernst röhm, rudolf hess and of course hitler were all there in munich when the freikorps marched into the city and started their brutal massacres, they were even in the same formation. and the way they talked about the atrocities afterwards is especially sickening.
@@pissfather6798 Hitler was, funny enough, a member of the Bavarian Soviet Republic.
@@RambleOn07 yes he was elected as a leader of one of the soldiers councils in the munich garrison but its assumed he took this position in the role of an informant and after the BSR was crushed by the freikorps he spent his time ratting out the former members of his revolutonary unit. he mentions this all in his writings.
The Eastern Front in WWI and especially the campaign of Operation Faustschlag in WWI, when Germany pushed into Russia and allowed German soldiers to see large parts of the Russian Empire, also fueled impressions that Russia would be backward and therefore "needed" to be colonized (as Germany tried in WWII).
@@pissfather6798 was Hit*er a member of the Freikorps ? Please what do you mean when you say they were in the same formation ? I'm curious...
I only just found out this channel exists today but I can already tell that there is some great stuff on it, and likely more great videos and content to come in the future!
Finnaly as a Latvian who wanted to see more content based on the baltic region im so happy you made a video on it
Koenigsberg had long been Germany's outpost toward the east, until Red Army literally wiped it from the map in 1945. Now, Kaliningrad has become Russia's outpost toward the west. Such a curious turn of events. 😳
Hitler's genocide had consequences.
@@neilpemberton5523 the genocide of 2 million german people hasn't been recognized widely yet either.
What do you mean by "Red army wiped it from the map"? Wasn't Koenigsberg firstly heavily bombarded by Allies aviation?
@@reytop5064 Are two mutually exclusive?
@@dimanyak373 Nope. But still it sounded strange to me. Like it's complete exclusion from the fact of severe damage what British air forces did to the city.
This sounded straight up like south american history, how do they even recover from that??! Also, I'm from Argentina, notable funny moments: that time when the air force bombarded a plaza full of people just to kill Peron. They didn't kill Peron ._.
Most successful Argentinian assassination attempt:
"How do they recover from that"
You find the man with the most unconventional mustache and give him absolute power
so basically in History Class our teacher was shocked when whe the whole class basically said the Killing of Liebknecht and Luxemburg were kinda justified.
-Based-
Based and Dirlepilled
Social Fascist moment
Not suprised. An entire class of facist maniacs? Must be scary.
The idea that armed militias are going to run around lynching people they disagree with turns out to be pretty bad a few years down the line.
"There shall be no communists." as i think Germany was thinking here.
Sure, thats why the government had to to drown in blood popular uprisings all over Germany. Cause Germans definitely did not want socialism back then.
One interesting thing about Rosa Luxemburg - she actually wrote a letter to Lenin at this time, warning him of the dangers of how Bolshevism relied on Political Vanguardism, and its tendency to restrict power to an inner clique. A system that led to the rise of Stalin, and beguiled Soviet politics until its collapse.
Another bit of sad irony was how the Versailles settlements actually encouraged (to some extent) race-based thinking when it came ot state formation - something that aided the Nazi regime
She was an ideological bimbo herself. Both their variants of socialism were always going to lead to force being used against the unwilling.
Well yeah, that's cause race/ethnic-based thinking when it comes to states just makes sense.
It used to make sense during the time where culture and ethnicity were tied to a larger extent than today.
@@basedstreamingatcozy-dot-t7126 it doesn't make sense - 90% of nations don't even have a state and many states are multiethnic
@@acceptablecasualty5319 most every state is at least a little bit multi-ethnic (especially back then, the USA, UK and France for example). Even Japan today seen as one of the most homogeneous countries on earth has the native Ainu people and differences with the Riyuku and Okinawa Japanese. The whole 13 points were extremely flawed and the every people a state doctrine only hurt more then it helped, it was only implemented as a form of punishment never neutrally.
Alot of people forget that Hitler was a commie at this time, even in the Bavarian Red Army. There's footage of him at Kurt Eisner's funeral, marching with them, photos at the event with armbands. (Likely one red, as the socialists wore, and one black, worn in mourning.) It wasn't until later he would become a Natsoc, and distanced himself from Marxism. Seeing Marxism and Capitalism as two sides of a single "Jewspiracy" coin. and formed the geman version of the soviet union with extra steps. lol.
A little bit of context for the spartacus-uprising:
At the time, the SPD (Yes, the same one as today) was the goverment party, a left leaning, social-democratic party. The SPD was the party that dealt with the capitulation of germany after Hindenburg and Ludendorf (Highest german commanders in the first world war, they held close to all power in the country) lost the war.
Spartacus, as well as the sailors who rebelled where part of the SPD, till they divided over the question of socialism/ a social democratic system and communism.
The SPD decleared the Weimar republic the new goverment, while the Spartacus-gang decleared the german communist republic or some shit like that.
In some (small, niche) circels today, the SPD are regarded as traitors to germany, because they capitulated. In others, they are seen as traitors for shelling the sailors and fighting spartacus.
Wer hat uns verraten? Die Sozialdemokraten!
Wer hatte Recht? Karl Liebknecht!
Möge die Revolution bald kommen, diesmal stärker denn je
wer hat uns verraten,
DIE SOZIAL DEMOKRATEN!!!!!!!!!
the amout of times this was used is astounding
And everything about the Spartacus myth is a lie invented by the Nazis.
Liebknecht didn't proclaime a "communist republic or some shit like that". He proclamied the "free socialist republic of Germany", which would have been a council republic, an actually pretty sensible form of direct democracy (many of our right wing nuts today call for a form of direct participation a council republic would enable...more proof, right wingers are utter idots).
Wish this would be taught in german schools. But sadly it's barely scratched or not even told
what got teached to me in school was TWO!! visits to concentration camps.
luckily my contrarian soul only got more enraged by these attemps of subversion.
@@fritzkuhne2055 Based brother. God bless you !
Babarians
Romans
Squarebeard lovers
Berlin wall came down
- Thats pretty much what you learn
That's...a lie.
@@fritzkuhne2055 Wahh wahh my school tried to radicalize me against some of the most horrific acts of human evil that history has ever seen!!!!!! So unbased, so cringe!!!!!
The song “Freikorps Voran” in the background is a nice touch
Amazing video as per usual, keep it ip Ezekiel!
Interesting thing about Hitler, he was actually a MEMBER of the Soldiers Soviet in Munich during the revolution and likely helped participate in it. But after the entire thing began to fall apart and the obvious corruption of it was seen, he spoke out against it, which was why he was in Prison at the time. It was probably the Freikorp saving him that lead him to become supportive of them and join up with similar movements.
No? He was in prison after, when the republic was more or less "stable". In Bavaria, he ratted out his comrades and got a free pass from the Freikorps.
1919=/=1923
He was hired as a spy
@@S0me0ne353:trust me bro
@@morrisonparker3229 no? He said so himself... plus it was in the military documents... he was a spy for the military...
That's the difference between right wingers and left wingers... When left wingers are betrayed by the government, they resent their government forever.
When nationalists are betrayed by their government. It matters not to them... For they will always think about their country.
That’s crazy, almost like the elites use right wing militants to retain their position in the hierarchy. Quit licking their boots bro, they’ll throw you in the camps just as fast as the rest of us
@@Reworkd Facts.
@@leomate8301 They “betrayed” the German monarchy because Kaiser Willy was a dipshit who became a liability to the emergent German Bourgeois ruling class. They were at odds with the “traditional” elites, the Junkers, but they were elites themselves.
@@leomate8301 How is that relevant to anything?
@@leomate8301 I don’t recall there being a rule that says I can’t call out shit comments after an arbitrary time of their posting.
You should do a series on the Spainish civil war I have never heard an in depth take on it and yet it always interested me I know that you
already did a video on it but a lot more could be said about the whole thing
He made a video on it
We already made a video about that topic
“The rise of the Nazi Party led to a resurgence of Freikorps activity, as many members or ex-members were drawn to the party's marrying of military and political life and extreme nationalism by joining the Sturmabteilung (SA) and Schutzstaffel (SS). Unlike in the German Revolution of 1918-19 or their involvement in Eastern Europe, the Freikorps now had almost no military value and were instead utilized by the Nazis as thugs to engage in street brawls with communists and to break up communist and socialist meetings alongside the SA to gain a political edge. Moreover, the Nazis elevated the Freikorps as a symbol of pure German nationalism, anti-communism, and militarized masculinity to co-opt the lingering social and political support of the movement.”
Yeah, until 1933 when their leaders were killed in the night of the long knives and by 1934 Hitler declared them "Pathological enemies of the state" stabbing them in the back. Save me the propaganda- the Freikorps was used by the Nazis as allies of convenience due to a mutal hate of communism. Many individuals ceased to be Freikorps members when they became Nazis and both groups should be regarded as entirely different ideologies. The Freikorps fought for Germany not the Nazi party which is why Hitler destroyed them because he knew they were a threat to him.
@@Bronasaxon Point being? The Freikorps and monarchists still aided and abetted the Nazis on their way to power. What's the effective difference as opposed to if they were supporters?
Moreover, the Nazis shared many of the same beliefs, like "Judeo-Bolshevism" and revulsion of democracy.
@@BifronsCandle A matter of degree for starters. Nevermind that most of them were not as crazy as the Nazis or on board with their schemes. Hence why Hitler later backstabbed them.
@@Bronasaxon At least for me personally just because the degree of them compared to the Nazis was less it's kind of hard to feel sympathy for a group that assisted in the rise of the Nazis, while the night of the long knives was brutal I don't lose too much sleep over it, given that while not fascists they weren't exactly keen on the whole democracy thing.
@@BifronsCandle early Freikorps were revolutionary nationalists and Republicans during Napoleonic Wars. There's I guess a similar comparison to American militia culture where the early militias were. Ore revolutionary than what you see now
i literally did not know that the Freikorps had an entire scandal in my country (Latvia)
The fatherland will never be motherland
Ja!
Imagine what passed through the minds of the first Freikorps unit arriving at Berlin. outnumbered almost 200-1, with no back up on a hostile region
*and still winning*
Well ‘outnumbered’ is not really a fitting term here, considering that most of the revolutionaries were civilians without weapons and the Freikorps had access to heavy artillery, tanks, and aircraft.
yeah "Gott mit uns"
You will never be white
Plot armour
@@panzerfk0626
That’s not even a fitting term either though, because throughout the Berlin Battles the actual combatants on the revolutionary side were pretty handily outnumbered by the Freikorps, regular Army troops, and Police.
I never even knew about this, thanks for the entertaining info!
I live how the background Music is the pro-freikorps Song "Freikorps Voraus"
This is truly one of my favorite what if's of history, could a german socialist state perhaps have presented an alternative to bolchevik communism? Or would it had gone down the exact same bloody and repressive path? Knowing the path Germany took irl it truly seems to me like an interesting alternative.
I personally think it would have been really interesting to see, most german communist were left communist, and even tho Rosa was a friend of Lenin she was still really critical (on the issue of authoritarianism and concentration of power as opposed to the decentralisation of workers councils/soviets) and she most likely wouldn't have appreciated Stalin and his policy (and being a friend of Lenin he could have given her his testament).
I think the entente wouldn't tolerate a communist Germany
I go by Marx’s idea of socialism so i don’t think it would have helped things much. The korps that this video was about was a international conglomerate of mercenaries who didn’t like communism. They were more of a prototype of black water or those guys who’d sign up to go fight for Rhodesia via a ad in the back of magazine. Something I wish was talked about more, my grandfather was invited by their government to do work with them and SA so I can’t say he did what Iam talking about but he knew folk who did, Wild times. Good men short shorts and almost had a nuclear African state.
@@arthurbordet8754 sell communism inevitably leads to corruption. I still think the same for socialism. But at least there are good socialist policies.
alternatively, if the Freikorp take over of the government had been successful, would it have circumvented the weakness of the weimar republic and the Nazi's coming to power?
I've just discovered a new historical rabbit whole to explore. I never imagined that the interwar period could evoke such feelings inside me I guess I'll live here for a while.
This video is underrated and awesome. Good job!
Hitler surviving as many close-calls as he did reminds me of the time-travel paradox where him dying before gaining power led to something even worse, and you then have people going back to save him, then kill him, save, kill, etc...
It's actually not even hard to think of what could have been worse. Communist Germany swallowed up by Soviet Union, invades rest of Europe, commits genocides, stays communist, loses millions to Holodomor on much greater scale.
It wouldn't, while both the Spartacists and Bolsheviks were communist their views on implementing communism were very different
@@randomarcgunner4543 I mean hasn't every genocidal communist regime said that.
If that's the case, why not go back in time and kill Marx or Lenin?
@@Prometheus7272 Yeah thank god Germany didn't fall for that. They could have killed 10 million people in concentration camps... Oh wait.
@@Prometheus7272true but all are going to The same genocidal dictatorship
I love your channel and how you make videos about usually ignored topics
Liebknecht and Luxembourg were both Jewish as well as most of the members of the spartacist council.
both of them got what they deserved in the end
no they weren't, only luxemburg had jewish descent, and all were anti-religious and atheists, nice try rabbi
@@hasanyrom9055 i mean, luxemburg was critical of authoritarian communism and bolshevism, so she certainly wasn't that good
@@NBrioDaZueraRules she was a commie parasite and got what she needed
@@NBrioDaZueraRules how am I a rabbi?
“After point blank artillery caused the building to collapse” lol never would have guessed 😂
One of the funny stories to come out of the Bavarian Socialist Republic was that of Franz Lipp appointed to the Foreign Ministry, he had a history of mental health problems...He declared war on Württemburg and Switzerland when the Swiss refused to send 60 locomotives, he also claimed to be acquainted to Pope Benedict XV, he informed informed Vladimir Lenin by cable that when the previous minister fled, he took also took off with the keys to the ministry toilet...
I would like to have a fly on Lenins wall when that cable came through
Really underrated part of history, nice vid
A great video as always!
I honestly can't believe there isn't more discussion of this. Its insane
But that would mean getting an understanding of the Nazis rise to power 🙃
Freikorps voran sounding in the back , I LOVE IT
Re-establish the freikorps.
they were literal proto-fascists giving rise to nazism but ok
😂
Gebe mein bestes
@@guishenStreetB Shut up commie
Imagine a modern ww3 anti-communist paramilitary. Yes there will be some nationalists, Neo Nazis. But the majority of Freikorps would be conservative ww3 veterans, same with ww1.
Another great video!
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the tyranny of boredom is over on us
at least for 14:55 minutes
Hey Ezekiel could you make a video about the Turkish war of independence that happend right after WW1 I think it would fit your other videos.
@@mangonel the strong conquers the weak
Well well well
I enjoyed the video.
Can I get a source for 9:47? Where it mentions Rudolf Hess and Hitler. I am interested in reading more on it but I can't find anything.
Phew, dodged a bullet there! I'm sure it was all smooth sailing from then onwards!
Freikorps varun playing in the backround. Totally boss.
The good old days when fighting civil unrest with a artillery barrage and flame thrower sturmtruppen looked like a acceptable option. 😁
How the fuck is that funny?
@@belgarath6508 the absurdity of it?
How is that even a question??
Well now, I didn’t expect this much chaos.
Walking contradiction:
“Do you serve the SPD Gov, or are you trying to destroy it?”
“Yes.”
Well people didn’t join the Freikorps because they were intellectual free thinkers…
@@AsselParty lol yeah probably not the smartest bunch
The program of the Spartakists were:
- take the weapons away from the police
- give weapons to all people and form a national guard
- replace all local and state parliaments by free elected workers and soldiers councils
- nationalizing of all banks, mines and big industry
- contact similar groups in other countries.
My brother became neo Spartakist in the 80s.
They say: "when you are young and not left you are heartless, when you are old and still left you are brainless.
I assume either this video is propaganda or poorly researched, I am leaning to the first one with how it skims over the attrocities and neo-facism of the Freikorps
So another degeneracy that certainly WOULD NOT turn in another 2000`s Albania? Good luck in fucking around and finding out.
@@randomarcgunner4543he literally says the freikorps massacred thousands of innocents and says no such thing of the communist traitors; how is that propaganda
Outside of the first two ideas the rest seems pretty based to me.
What I find crazy is the fact I was oblivious to all of this
they literally joined the SS.
@@loveroffunnyy who?
@@baume7798 Der Stahlhelm, Bund der Frontsoldaten. and the freikorps were the thing that came BEFORE the SS.
@@loveroffunnyy You missed the part that Freikorps were politically heterogenous with anti-communism as the only thing uniting them.
What did we learn today kids? Nobody is the good guy in history
"We do a little trolling"
-Freikorps officer, after ordering 10 communists executed
Dam the Germans use to be hardcore AF
@Anti-Socialism777you’re not occupied by Americans you guys just keep electing shitty politicians in power lmao. Not everything is Americas fault. Take some accountability for your own fuck ups bud.
@@xycomm5604 no but they don’t want military bases germany is capable of building a powerfull army just either the ruling parties or the americans want
I had to check the description, yep, thats Freikorps Voran playing in the background. Based.
Good, informative video, Ezekiel
another great video mr. Ezekiel
Wait didn't these guys also serve as the basis for Hitler's rise to power?
yes, this channel is blatantly fascist apologia
yeah, most history youtubers are neo-nazis, makes sense that he praises the freikorps
not exactly, some were conservative democrats, others were monarchists (Hitler despised the monarchy). although some would later join the Nazi Party which had been founded right after the war ended. Hitler would make his own Stormtroopers or SA that would replace the Freikorps and harass the communists.
Not exactly. At most they were allies of convience against the communists and even that didn't save the Freikorps. In 1933 their leaders were killed in the night of the long knives and by 1934 Hitler declared them "Pathological enemies of the state" stabbing them in the back. While some individuals did join the Nazis they ceased to be Freikorps members when they did. And both groups should be regarded as entirely different ideologies. The Freikorps fought for Germany not the Nazi party which is why Hitler destroyed them because he knew they were a threat to him.
Yes some of them wore swastikas on their helmets before the nsdap used it. Wer hat uns verraten? Sozialdemokraten!
Bro that was incredible ! Very complete and very detailed !!
Another amazing video
incase you are wondering the song in the background is a intrusmental and remix of friekorps voran (or freecorps/freikorps advance in english)
the freikorps if preventing the worst regime ever to arise in europe from existing was a test:
ummmm, they led to the actual worst regime to ever arise in europe: the nazis
@@benj8242 gaming
They'd fail unless you somehow believe communist Germany would be worse than nazi germany.
Their intervention in politics was a direct cause of the NDSAP. So they kinda did create the worst regime ever to exist in Europe.
Literally prevented International comunism ,the result being nazi creation and marxist leninist inspired regimes,congrats for God knows how many milions of death
Freikorps are such an interesting topic.
While saving Germany from communism multiple times, some Freikorps were brutal in baltics. Some of their members became staunch opponents of Hitler, other Freikorps joined them
After watching the rest of the video I feel like it wasnt some freikorps who were brutal but most of them. For some reason in my mind I thought that the Freikorps were the "good guys". It feels like they are no better than the Communists they put down
@@pavan923 It depends somewhat, its possible that it was because of their brutal tactics that successfully prevented a communist Germany. Maybe not. Either way, a WWII with Germany and Russia on the same team spells many many millions dead.
@@pavan923 well I see it like that : these people went through the brutality of ww1. That doesn't go past a man without leaving scars. They just continued the fight they were fighting, but against different people who often didn't have the same experiences. Remember PTSD wasn't studied at the time.
Killing prisoners is a great example. Prevelant on all sides, the Canadians for example took non throughout the whole army, it was especially prevelant among Sturmtruppen on the German side for tactical reasons
"Saved from communism", and walked it straight into the loving arms of that other ideology Nazism.
@@zombieranger3410 If the Germans had been communist like the Soviets, it doesn't mean that the Russians and Germans would cozy up with one another. The USSR was more concerned with reclaiming former lands in eastern Europe while Germany would be focused with former German territory, including Alsace Lorraine in France. I highly doubt it would be in Russia's interest to send millions of men to die so that Germany could regain their former lands while Russia gains barely anything. And let's also keep in mind the fact that even when the Soviets invaded Poland in 1939, the allies didn't exactly care too much and we're more focused on the Germans as they knew it would be near impossible to fight a war between both Germany and the Soviets at the same time, I doubt allied leaders would do the same just because both are commies
Kinda funny how a few days I watched this video I had a history lesson on the Freikorps and Spartacists
7:55 I don't blame you for not even trying to say or pronounce the name of Anton von Padua Alfred Emil Hubert Georg Graf von Arco auf Valley.
people with notifications on casually trying to explain how good this video was despite it being released 2 minutes ago
youtube comments in a nutshell
Can we all agree that far right and far left politics are shit? I know, such a hot take.
I agree
You would be wrong
lol no, centrists are just people pleasers
To a non German, Freikorps sounds like a badass group name from some epic movie
And ngl, they kinda were
bruh they were proto-fascists who would go on to actually become nazis
so based
I really don't know what to think of those guys... they kinda where heroes and monsters at the same time...
...and now you know the "how could it happen?" with regard to the Holocaust. Good job, Kurt Eisner and Rosa Luxemburg.
Karl Liebknecht as well ✡️
What is your point? I really hope I got it wrong
@@alexeyamosov664 Twenty years before Hitler's brown shirts smashed shop windows of innocent people and beat the hell out of them, Rosa and Kurt and their 'Red Guard' were terrorizing and shooting innocent people in the street at the end of a horrible war (WWI). The Kaiser had fled and they wanted a communist revolution in Germany and chose violence to achieve it. After having lost a son, a father, a brother, a cousin, or a friend in the bloody trenches of WWI, just what the starving German people needed was this $hit to cap it off. Rosa's and Kurt's religious/ethnic background was noted and General Ludendorf was the first to put it in words. "We were stabbed in the back by the Jews!" was his infamous quote. With their violent communist stunt, Rosa and Kurt were fools who painted a target on the back of every innocent Jew in Europe. Herr Adoplh and his Nazi Party got 33% of the vote in 1933. That's 1 out of every 3 Germans. Undoubtedly, they were voters who had remembered Rosa and Kurt and their cruel lust for power. Before all of this, in 1918, Herr Adolph was no antisemite. He proudly served under a Jewish commanding officer named Hugo Gutmann and he LOVED a Jewish doctor named Dr. Edvard Bloch. Dr. Bloch had valiantly tried to save Adolph's beloved mother from breast cancer. Dr. Bloch rarely charged any fee, because he knew the Hitler family could not afford it. After 1919, Herr Adolph was a demonic antisemite. Thanks, Rosa and Kurt. /sarc
Lucifer scolded his son, Evil. "Why can't you be more like your brother, Stupidity? He gets the job done far better than you ever did!!"
@@alexeyamosov664 Shall I start talking about the Soviet revolutionary leadership? It gets worse.
@@alexeyamosov664 they betrayed germany and have been betraying their hosts since the dawn of time, simple as
Adolf showing up in the after credits scene:
After the German defeat in Estonia and Latvia the Freikorps had to go but the Baltic Landwehr (military group of baltic germans) was integrated into the latvian army. Also the estonian and latvian gouvernment gruanted the baltic germans a big autonomy.