Versailles #43: Freikorps European Tour

When Diplomacy Fails Podcast

Zack Twamley

Phd, International Relations, Korean War, European History, 17th Century, 18th Century, Politics, 20th Century, Thirty Years' War, History, 19th Century, War, First World War

4.8 • 773 Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2019

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Before we delve into the Russian situation, I felt it would be beneficial, and darkly interesting, to examine what was happening in between the lands caught in the middle of the Russian and German crises. The Freikorps - disgruntled, right wing, extremist former soldiers and civilians, was exactly the wrong ingredient to help heal a fractured portion of the continent. Yet, unable to accept that their war was over, and determined to leave a mark upon the region and expand their fatherland, these men launched a campaign of utter ruthlessness for much of 1919. In this episode we examine it, as best as we can, before we set our sights firmly on Bolshevik Russia... Get bonus content on Patreon

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0:00.0	Three thousand miles from home, an American army is fighting for you.
0:19.0	To the end, it's the high ideal for which America stands may endure upon the earth.
0:25.6	I earnestly intrigued my countrymen to pause before they rush Hitler into this revolutionary change, which may well be irretrievable.
0:51.1	I know that it is hard for Americans to realize the magnitude of the war in which we are involved.
0:59.0	The trials and Italy between them have made waste people between their lives
1:04.0	and the whole field of international relationships that is in fairness confusion affairs of the world
1:10.0	can be set straight
1:11.7	all about the permit
1:13.0	and most determined
1:14.5	exhibition of the will to leave
1:16.3	and make the right to avail.
1:19.0	We're here
1:20.5	because we're here,
1:22.9	because we're here,
1:25.1	because we're here, because we're here.
1:27.2	Because we're here.
1:56.0	Thank you. Because we're here, because we're here. You're listening to the Versailles'I Project Episode 43.
2:02.5	Hello and welcome history friends patrons all
2:03.7	to the First I Anniversary Project
2:05.5	episode 43 I nearly said
2:07.5	1956 there
2:08.7	I nearly said delegation game as well
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