SV: SV: Saving Germany and liberating Estonia, Finland, Latvia, andLithuania 1918-23

["Bertil Häggman" <bertil.haggman@helsingborg.se>]

>BTW, let's also not forget that the Freikorps were extremely brutal in
>their indiscriminate political violence suppressing left-wing
>insurrection. Following the Baltic expedition they were also involved in
>politically motivated murder and terrorism.


JK,

Thanks for your comments on the Freikorps. Brutality and extremism of the left might have forced hard reaction. The individual soldiers might not have felt they fought for democracy but their action nevertheless saved Germany from being the second country to fall under the domination of Marxist-Leninists after the October 1917 coup d'etat in Russia. 

It is true that individual members of the Freikorps participated in assassinations of prominent leftists. But 
these were individual action not necessarily condoned by Freikorps leadership. As for terrorism it would be interesting to learn mre about Freikorps "terrorism".

Finally underneath is a list of Freikorps leaders who fell victim to Hitler's massacres in 1934:

Karl Ernst
Edmund Heines
Oskar Stable
August Schneidhuber
Hans Peter von Heydebreck
Hans Hayn
Fritz von Krausser
Werner von Fichte

plus to that were executed as a result of their
involvement in 20th of July:

Wilhelm Canaris
Wold Heinrich Hekdorf

It is of value to keep a balanced view.

Best wishes

Bertil Haggman