Complex sentence: To crush the incipient anarchy, he permitted and even encouraged the organization and employment of right-wing, ultra-nationalist freikorps; on the other hand, he defused the Kiel Mutiny of 1918 without a shot being fired.
Split into simpler sentences: To crush the incipient anarchy, he permitted and even encouraged the organization and employment of right-wing, ultra-nationalist freikorps. On the other hand, he defused the Kiel Mutiny of 1918 without a shot being fired.