re: #31 Dark_Falcon
Freikorps, just after WWI. Note the long bayonet hanging from the back of the kneeling rifleman’s belt and the officer’s relatively plain peaked cap. The rifles are Gewehr 98 Mausers and the officer’s pistol is a Pistole 08 Luger.
Allegedly an execution of a communist by Freikorps in 1919:
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