Talk:Marinebrigade Ehrhardt

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[edit] Copyediting

In addition to fixing the article's grammar, I changed 'rabid nationalist' to 'fervent nationalist' for the sake of encyclopaedic-ness. --Last Malthusian 14:09, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Use of Swastika

Weimar paramilitary groups#Freikorps indicates that Marinebrigade Ehrhardt was the first to use the swastika, implying that they may have been using it before the Nazi Party. Does anyone know if this is true or have further information? This photo seems to confirm this, but I am not certain that this (1) is a picture of Marinebrigade Ehrhardt or (2) wasn't taken after the swastika had started to be used by other groups.

Here's another that is claimed to be from the Kapp Putsch. You can see the swastika on the side of the truck.

The documentary Mein Kampf states that the swastika was the symbol of Lanz von Liebenfels from whom a young Hitler purchased some of his first racist pamphlets. Squideshi (talk) 02:38, 24 November 2007 (UTC)