WHAT I'M READING: FREIKORPS BASTARDS

Osprey publishes an extensive series of books on a huge number of military subjects.  One of the many books I am in the middle of reading right now (who knows, I might actually finish a few) is the one you see to your left.

I have an obsession with the Weimar Republic, which was Germany between the end of WWI (1918) and 1933, when Hitler took power.  Some of the people who were crucial to his success were the Right Wing private militias who were brought in by the army, the establishment, and the "socialist" government to put down the working class and all Left Wing activity with extreme violence.

The problem for me is, fascinated as I am by all this stuff, I get filled with rage by it.  It slows down the research.  These goon squads got away with murder (literally, and frequently) and thereby thwarted a democratic, socialist revolution.  Some of the characters in my novel, Angels of the Revolution, encounter these types.