Braunschweig in 1919, led by the communist Spartacus League, was defeated when Freikorps troops under Georg Ludwig Rudolf Maercker took over the city on order...

Bundesarchiv has photos from the 1920 Kapp Putsch showing Marinebrigade Ehrhardt Freikorps using the symbol, however, it was not the most important symbol of the...

the Voronezh–Povorino Operation. January 9 Friedrich Ebert orders the Freikorps into action in Berlin. Estonian War of Independence: Estonian forces liberate...