Photographs of Freikorps

Garde-Kavallerie-Schützen-Division (c. 1918-1919)
A soldier in the GKSD, which was formed as a Prussian army unit after in December 1918, but was mostly involved in suppresing the Spartacist Uprising as well as executing Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht. It did take part in the failed Kapp-putsch of 1920.

Freikorps Werdenfels (May 1919)
Photo postcard depicting the victorious Freikorps Werdenfels marching in München after overthrowing the Bavarian Soviet Republic in May 1919. The fighters can be seen wearing the traditional Bavarian Trachten and armbands with the symbol of Freikorps Epp, which also Freikorps Werdenfels wore. However, the photo describes the lot marching as Freikorps Oberland, something that is wrong.

Freikorps von Brandis (c. 1919)
Group photo in the Baltics.

Freikorps von Brandis (c. 1919)
A nice group photo snapped in the Baltics.

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