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Which was never used pre third reich and therefore has a huge historical weight.
Ask a german about Freikorps and they most likely will think of Napoleon, not the third reich.
As a German, when I see any foreigner using German in a military context, I assume they're a Wehraboo and by extension at least fascist-adjacent
Absolutely not lol, germans would know that anyone naming their unit 'Freikorps' is a nazi just like all the other stuff, shit if you see someone waving the Reichsfahne people know that you are a nazi.
Did you source this right out of your ass? Trust me, most Germans are not thinking of Napoleon. They're not thinking of the Third Reich either, because the Freikorps were integrated into the Reichswehr in 1920 already and the name wasn't used after that. If they remember this term from school or media at all, then almost certainly in the context of the Freikorps squashing socialist uprisings under direction of the Ebert government in 1918/19. They might also remember them murdering Luxemburg, Liebknecht and others, and in general being far-right proto-fascists.
As a German, i'm mostly thinking of revanchist right wingers murdering leftists during the Weimar Republic when i hear Freikorps, it's where the term shows up most in our history lessons.
I'd wager a good bet 70% of Germans wouldn't even know that word, it's a lesser detail in German history totally irrelevant to your average German. Nobody cares about Napoleon or Weimar.
the Freikorps put down the Sparticist revolt by the communist wing of the SDP. they later became the base for the brownshirts but that's not where the term was used.