Nigel Jones. Hitler’s Heralds: The Story of the Freikorps, 1918-1923.

Contents

Introduction

1 – Birth of the Stormtrooper

2 – Collapse of an Empire

3 – Republic or Revolution?

4 – The First Freikorps

5 – Spartacus Week

6 – The Twin Murders: Liebknecht and Luxemburg

7 – Maercker’s March

8 – Strikes and Street fights

9 – The Freebooting Spirit

10 – The Baltic Campaign

11 – The Munich Soviet

12 – Versailles: Submission or Resistance?

13 – The Kapp Putsch

14 – The Red Army of the Ruhr

15 – The Politics of Murder

16 – Enter Hitler: The Beerhall Putsch

Epilogue: The Fate of the Freikorps

Appendix A. The Main Freikorps, leaders, dates, fate, size, and insignia

Appendix B. Freikorps members later prominent in Nazi Germany