自由军团中的黑人士兵

East African (Askari) Member of the Freikorps Lettow-Vorbeck in Munich (May 1919)✠

Freikorps were volunteer military units composed of former front-line soldiers; they were first recruited in November 1918. They were supposed to serve as protective troops for the new government during a period of radical political upheaval. The Supreme Army Command was largely responsible for their recruitment. In total, there were about 120 different Freikorps, each with a troop size of between 2,000 and 10,000 soldiers. For the most part, the Freikorps soldiers harbored predominantly anti-revolutionary and anti-democratic views, which is why they ultimately proved hostile to the Republic. This photograph shows an African soldier who belonged to a Freikorps unit named after General Lettow-Vorbeck, who had led some 14,000 East African troops against the Entente powers in Africa during World War I. Some of those soldiers, called Askari, were sent to Germany after the war to serve in the Freikorps Lettow-Vorbeck unit. The photograph was taken in Munich in May 1919, suggesting that the Lettow-Vorbeck unit was involved in the suppression of the Bavarian Soviet Republic [Räterepublik].✠

东非 慕尼黑自由军团成员（1919年5月）✠

自由军团是由前前线士兵组成的志愿军事单位;他们于 1918 年 11 月首次被集结。他们本应在激进的政治动荡时期充当新政府的保护部队。最高陆军司令部主要负责招募他们的人员。总共有大约2个不同的自由军团，每个部队的兵力规模在2000至10000名士兵之间。在大多数情况下，自由军团士兵主要持有反革命和反民主的观点，这就是为什么他们最终证明对共和国怀有敌意。这张照片显示的是一名非洲士兵，他属于以莱托-福尔贝克将军命名的 Freikorps 部队，他在第一次世界大战期间率领大约 14000 名东非军队对抗非洲的协约国。其中一些士兵被称为阿斯卡里，战后被派往德国，在Freikorps Lettow-Vorbeck部队服役。这张照片拍摄于1919 年5

月在慕尼黑，表明莱托-福尔贝克部队参与了对巴伐利亚苏维埃共和国 [Räterepublik] 的镇压✠