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 [R?terepublik].?

東非?慕尼黑自由軍團(tuán)成員（1919年5月）?

自由軍團(tuán)是由前前線士兵組成的志愿軍事單位;他們于 1918 年 11?月首次被集結(jié)。他們本應(yīng)在激進(jìn)的政治動(dòng)蕩時(shí)期充當(dāng)新政府的保護(hù)部隊(duì)。最高陸軍司令部主要負(fù)責(zé)招募他們的人員?？偣灿写蠹s2個(gè)不同的自由軍團(tuán)，每個(gè)部隊(duì)的兵力規(guī)模在2000至10000名士兵之間。在大多數(shù)情況下，自由軍團(tuán)士兵主要持有反革命和反民主的觀點(diǎn)，這就是為什么他們最終證明對(duì)共和國(guó)懷有敵意。這張照片顯示的是一名非洲士兵，他屬于以萊托-福爾貝克將軍命名的?Freikorps?部隊(duì)，他在第一次世界大戰(zhàn)期間率領(lǐng)大約 14000?名東非軍隊(duì)對(duì)抗非洲的協(xié)約國(guó)。其中一些士兵被稱為阿斯卡里，戰(zhàn)后被派往德國(guó)，在Freikorps Lettow-Vorbeck部隊(duì)服役。這張照片拍攝于1919 年5

月在慕尼黑，表明萊托-福爾貝克部隊(duì)參與了對(duì)巴伐利亞蘇維埃共和國(guó) [R?terepublik] 的鎮(zhèn)壓?