The Birth of the Nazis: How the Freikorps Blazed a Trail for Hitler

The birth pangs of Nazism grew out of the death agony of the Kaiser's Germany. Defeat in World War I and a narrow escape from Communist revolution brought not peace but five chaotic years (1918-1923) of civil war, assassination, plots, putsches and murderous mayhem to Germany. This book contains an in-depth study of the Freikorps.