Kapp Putsch

• • In March 1920 , some of the Freikorps themselves took part in the Kapp Putsch led by Wolfgang Kapp
  • They wanted to create a new right-wing government
• • The Freikorps marched in to Berlin to overthrow the Weimar regime
  • German workers opposed the putsch and staged a general strike
• • Berlin was paralysed was Kapp was forced to give up
• • Even after the putsch failed , threats to the government remained
  • In 1922 , some Freikorps members assassinated Walter Ratheneau - Foreign Minister and Jewish
• • As Germany's economic problems got worse after the war , anti-Semitic feelings increased