A Brief History of the Birth of the Nazis

"This account shows how the birth of Nazism came out of the death throes of the Kaiser's Germany. Defeat in World War I and a narrow escape from Communist revolution brought not peace but five chaotic years (1918-23) of civil war, assassination, plots, putsches and murderous mayhem. It was an atmosphere in which civilized values withered and violent extremism flourished. The savage world of the trenches came home, carried by men who refused to admit defeat and 'who could not get the war out of their system'." "In the chronicle of the Freikorps - the freebooting armies that crushed the Red…