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Freikorps in a sentence
Freikorps meaning
A German-speaking corps of military or paramilitary and free (autonomous) nature, in some cases a private militia or army; in particular, such a group linked to Germany.
Using Freikorps
- The main meaning on this page is: A German-speaking corps of military or paramilitary and free (autonomous) nature, in some cases a private militia or army; in particular, such a group linked to Germany.
- In the example corpus, freikorps often appears in combinations such as: the freikorps, freikorps were, freikorps units.
Context around Freikorps
- Average sentence length in these examples: 20.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 9 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Freikorps
- In this selection, "freikorps" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 20.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, word, paramilitary, student, units, changed and leaders stand out and add context to how "freikorps" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and those freikorps bands of and anti napoleonic freikorps often operated. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "freikorps" sits close to words such as aaditya, aardman and abbo, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with freikorps
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The Navy contributed two brigades to the Freikorps. (8 words)
The Freikorps attracted many nationally disposed citizens and students. (9 words)
Like the Nazis the Consul was founded by the Freikorps. (10 words)
Historian Robert GL Waite claims that in Hitler's "Röhm Purge" speech to the Reichstag on 13 July 1934, he implied that the Freikorps were one of the groups of "pathological enemies of the state". (35 words)
Her murder at the hands of the paramilitary “Freikorps,” ex-army soldiers aligned with the right-wing of the German Social Democratic Party (SPD), has made her a martyr for the socialist workers’ movement. (34 words)
The left claimed that the Social Democrats had betrayed the ideals of the revolution, while the army and the government-financed Freikorps committed hundreds of acts of gratuitous violence against striking workers. (32 words)
Example sentences (19)
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Her murder at the hands of the paramilitary “Freikorps,” ex-army soldiers aligned with the right-wing of the German Social Democratic Party (SPD), has made her a martyr for the socialist workers’ movement.
A huge ceremony was arranged on 9 November 1933 in which the Freikorps leaders symbolically presented their old battle flags to Hitler's SA and SS.
An entire series of Freikorps awards also existed, mostly replaced in 1933 by the Honor Cross for World War I veterans.
As a staunch aristocrat, Danner loathed the "little corporal" and those " Freikorps bands of rowdies".
A very large number of the Freikorps believed that the November Revolution had betrayed them when Germany was alleged to be on the verge of victory in 1918.
During the March 1848 riots, student Freikorps were set up in Munich.
Historian Robert GL Waite claims that in Hitler's "Röhm Purge" speech to the Reichstag on 13 July 1934, he implied that the Freikorps were one of the groups of "pathological enemies of the state".
In German-speaking countries the first so-called Freikorps "free regiments" ( German Freie Regimenter main) were formed in the 18th century from native volunteers, enemy renegades and deserters, and criminals.
Like the Nazis the Consul was founded by the Freikorps.
Many German veterans felt disconnected from civilian life, and joined a Freikorps in search of stability within a military structure.
On 22 May 1919 Riga was recaptured by Freikorps and White Terror began.
Röhm was given the nickname "The Machine Gun King of Bavaria" in the early 1920s, since he was responsible for storing and issuing illegal machine guns to the Bavarian Freikorps units.
The anti-Napoleonic Freikorps often operated behind French lines as a kind of commando or guerrilla force.
The Freikorps attracted many nationally disposed citizens and students.
The Freikorps was an army outside the control of the government, but they were in close contact with their allies in the Reichswehr.
The left claimed that the Social Democrats had betrayed the ideals of the revolution, while the army and the government-financed Freikorps committed hundreds of acts of gratuitous violence against striking workers.
The Navy contributed two brigades to the Freikorps.
This included the dissolution of many Freikorps – units made up of volunteers.
Common combinations with freikorps
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: