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- Tue Feb 24, 2004 10:54 am
- Forum: Reichswehr
- Topic: Possible Communist Revolution?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 18840
The Freikorps were primarily groupings of ex-soldiers and anti-Communists who formed a paramilitary unit to combat any potential Red uprising in Germany. I believe their first success (and don't take my word for this) was their toppling of the Raeterepublik (sp?) in Bavaria. The Reds under Kurt Eisn...
- Sun Feb 22, 2004 5:08 pm
- Forum: Reichswehr
- Topic: Possible Communist Revolution?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 18840
That's true, but it seems that the Communists were pretty much alone even on the far left of the spectrum. One thing that united the parties on the right (apart from anti-Versailles sentiment), whether moderate and radical, was a fear and distrust of Communism, and the parties of the right were far ...
- Thu Feb 19, 2004 1:42 pm
- Forum: SS/Waffen-SS
- Topic: Dutch and Danish SS
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4371
- Thu Feb 19, 2004 10:10 am
- Forum: SS/Waffen-SS
- Topic: Dutch and Danish SS
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4371
Check this site out:
http://www.waffen-ss.nl
Great resource on all the Dutch divisions and units.
Regards,
Edelweiss
http://www.waffen-ss.nl
Great resource on all the Dutch divisions and units.
Regards,
Edelweiss
- Wed Feb 18, 2004 9:49 am
- Forum: Reichswehr
- Topic: Possible Communist Revolution?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 18840
Not when Defence Minister Gustav Noske called upon the Freikorps to quash the Spartacist uprising in Berlin. The government was always going to have the support of the army, and the recruitment of the Friekorps to the anti-Bolshevist cause effectively sealed the fate of the Spatacists. I doubt that ...
- Wed Feb 18, 2004 9:41 am
- Forum: Soldatenheim
- Topic: What airplane would you have flown in WWII?
- Replies: 70
- Views: 20674
- Tue Feb 10, 2004 5:03 pm
- Forum: Soldatenheim
- Topic: Left Wing Differences
- Replies: 19
- Views: 5679
In 1918-19, the focus would most probably be on the Bolsheviks' withdrawal of Russia from the Great War. Don't forget that the Tsar was also a cousin of King George V, so there had been a question of kinship between the House of Saxe-Coburg (later Windsor) and the Romanoff Dynasty.
Regards,
Edelweiss
Regards,
Edelweiss
- Tue Feb 10, 2004 10:35 am
- Forum: Soldatenheim
- Topic: Left Wing Differences
- Replies: 19
- Views: 5679
Well, considering that the scale of Lenin's Red Terror reached far in excess of anything witnessed under the Tsars, I'd be inclined to believe that he was quite willing to use terror and repression as political weapons. Unlike the Tsarist Okhrana, the Bolshevist Cheka/OGPU were driven far more ferve...
- Tue Feb 10, 2004 8:10 am
- Forum: Soldatenheim
- Topic: Left Wing Differences
- Replies: 19
- Views: 5679
Sid, I'm arguing that there was essentially little transition in ideology between the reigns of Lenin and Stalin. Of course, the latter was by far the most cruel, wicked and brutal tyrant, but I'm essentially saying that Lenin was no saint himself. He had his secret police, his dictatorship, his ter...
- Mon Feb 09, 2004 4:02 pm
- Forum: Soldatenheim
- Topic: Left Wing Differences
- Replies: 19
- Views: 5679
I must say that I do agree wth Robert Conquest when he states that the Soviet regime was totalitarian from the outset. There was not, in my opinion, any great divide between the regime of Lenin and that of Stalin. In fact, Conquest argues (rightly, IMHO) that the ruthlessness and cruelty of Lenin's ...
- Mon Feb 09, 2004 3:49 pm
- Forum: General WWII German Military Discussion
- Topic: Modern German Army lineage
- Replies: 32
- Views: 9475
- Fri Feb 06, 2004 2:20 pm
- Forum: Weapons and Equipment
- Topic: Rivalry between Waffen SS and Wehrmacht
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3821
- Fri Feb 06, 2004 2:18 pm
- Forum: General WWII German Military Discussion
- Topic: Medic's White Powder
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2939
- Sun Feb 01, 2004 8:49 am
- Forum: Soldatenheim
- Topic: TV Tip
- Replies: 32
- Views: 9757
So may I settle in your home and kill you if you oppose me? That is your logic as far as settlers go. And there has been cases where e.g. infected blankets were given to Indians in order to let the disease do the dirty work. And if one sees two persons fighting each other on the street, it is perfe...
- Sat Jan 31, 2004 8:58 am
- Forum: Soldatenheim
- Topic: TV Tip
- Replies: 32
- Views: 9757
...the original American native population having been butchered and enslaved Well, it might surprise you to know that the first thing that occured between the European settlers and the natives was trade. Fur for firearms mostly. The natives also jumped at the chance to recruit the settlers into co...