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After the First World War former senior officers in the German Army began raising private armies called Freikorps. These were used to defend the German borders against the possibility of invasion from the Red Army. Later they were used against attempts at revolution in Germany.

General Franz Epp led 30,000 soldiers to crush the Bavarian Socialist Republic in March, 1919. It is estimated that Epp's men killed over 600 communists and socialists over the next few weeks.

And what pray tell is wrong with this? Had it not been for these men, Germany, and probably all of Western Europe would've been consumed by the communist scourge in the 1920's. It sounds like you might be a little disappointed. The Freikorps were formed as a counter weight to the roving bands of communist and left wing thugs roaming throughout Germany during the chaos after WWI. In my mind many of these men are heros. As you pointed out, they were dissolved in 1921, after the situation in post war Germany had somewhat stabilized, thanks in no small part to them, and long before the Nazis came to power.

This tendency to lump all things Right Wing in Europe in with the Nazis is the reason Europe is in the situation it's in now. As a result of this smear and demonizing campaign, the left has been able to run amok for the past half century.