Word: freikorpsmann
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Like a German Malraux, but endowed with less literary talent and less luck, he touched all wars, all revolutions, all causes; born a Roman Catholic in 1897, he was by turns a boy soldier in the Kaiser's army, a student Freikorpsmann, i.e., pre-stormtrooper, a follower of the doomed German left, an anti-Hitler refugee in Paris, a political commissar with the Red forces in Spain, a refugee again in Mexico. Now this richly wounded hero of the class war, living in Mexico and blacklisted by both left and right, has returned to haunt an affluent generation that...
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