Post 10/5 -10/11

Reading the chapter in Germans into Nazis dealing with the events of November of 1918, I find the role of the Freikorps to be especially fascinating. With the sheer influx of military personel returning after the War, it seems obvious that they would eventually band together, but I never would have thought that they would be placed into anti-leftist groups. Still, it does make sense considering the fact that the German government had always used the Communists as one of the bigger scapegoats, and with the worker's revolt and other social groups rising to prominance it's easy to see how the government would have looked for some way to combat that. It does seem like this spelled the end for yet another German revolution, as the revolutionaries had to shift their positions now that they were facing some sort of armed resistance. At the end, it seems like the Freikorps helped to keep the German public fractured after the failings of Weimar.