Awards of the German Freikorps were unofficial military awards displayed by various veteran organizations in Germany during the immediate aftermath of...

Freikorps (German: [ˈfʁaɪˌkoːɐ̯], "Free Corps" or "Volunteer Corps") were irregular German and other European paramilitary volunteer units that existed...

The Sudetendeutsches Freikorps (SFK) (Sudeten German Free Corps, also known as the Freikorps Sudetenland, Freikorps Henlein and Sudetendeutsche Legion)...

The German Legion of Honor was declared obsolete, along with all other awards of the German Freikorps, in 1933 by the new government of Nazi Germany. Recipients...

The German Knight's Cross (German: Deutschritter-Kreuz) was an award of the German Freikorps which existed after the close of the First World War. The...

The Bug Star, more formally known as the Bug Star of the Schutztruppe Bug was a paramilitary award of the German Freikorps which was issued in the 1920s...

Sudeten German and Carpathian German Party (Sudetendeutsche und Karpatendeutsche Partei) in November 1935. With the rising power of Nazi Party in Germany, the...

The Silesian Eagle (German language: Schlesischer Adler) was a medal awarded to members of the German right-wing paramilitary group Freikorps Oberland...

April: Freikorps suppress communists in Brunswick. 27 April: Battle for Munich occurs between Communists and Freikorps units. 2 May: City of Munich taken;...

sending in the Freikorps, government-sponsored paramilitary groups consisting mostly of battle-hardened World War I veterans of the Imperial German Army. Freikorps...

the Hep-Hep riots took place throughout Germany. During this time, many German states stripped Jews of their civil rights. As a result, many German Jews...

Member of the Freikorps, Nazi Party, and Sturmabteilung. Wilhelm Wolf, businessman and World War I veteran, born 19 October 1898. Member of the Freikorps and...

After the end of World War I and the dissolution of the German Empire, Epp was a commanding officer in the Freikorps and the Reichswehr. His unit, the Freikorps...

Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and...

participated in the suppression of the German Revolution of 1918–19 with the Freikorps in multiple German cities in 1920 and 1921. At the same time, he...

ISBN 3-8258-9340-5 (in German) Google.de; accessed 6 December 2014. Hruška, Emil (2013), Boj o pohraničí: Sudetoněmecký Freikorps v roce 1938 (1st ed.)...

Freikorps and fought in the Latvian War of Independence. Upon return in 1920, Berthold refused to disarm and together with his Freikorps joined the Kapp...

Führer of the Munich Ortsgruppe, the local Freikorps Roßbach group. In December 1922, Heines became Member #78 of the National Socialist German Workers'...

a German novelist and screenwriter. He was a Weimar-era national-revolutionary activist and right-wing Freikorps member. He was born in Kiel, in the Prussian...

first and second class. After the war, he was a member of the right-wing Freikorps, seeing service with both the Freikorps Lutzow and Roßbach in 1919 and...

served as the executive officer on a capital ship, hence often translated as commander Freikorps – volunteer corps (see Freiwillige). The Freikorps was an...

July 1962) was a German military officer, policeman, and leader of a Freikorps militia unit named after him. Caspari was the son of Albrecht Caspari (1845–1927)...

German rearmament (Aufrüstung, German pronunciation: [ˈaʊ̯fˌʀʏstʊŋ]) was a policy and practice of rearmament carried out by Germany from 1918 to 1939...

into Freikorps. After the suppression of the soviet republic at the beginning of May, during which about 335 civilians were killed by Freikorps fighters...

Lithuania. At first, the German part of the army (Freikorps and the Baltische Landeswehr) was on the side of Latvia, even retaking Riga from the Bolsheviks in...

respectively. Meanwhile, German forces conquered parts of the Cheb District and Jeseník District, where local battles included use of German artillery, Czechoslovak...

but the Soviet Republic was put down on May 3, 1919 by the Freikorps. On 3 May 1919, loyal elements of the German army (called the “White Guards of Capitalism”...

to honour their German state social benefits, such as the old age pensions. However, many German Army veterans joined the Freikorps (Free Corps), a paramilitary...

Kraußer. After the end of the war, Kraußer took part in the suppression of the Munich Soviet Republic in 1919 as a member of the Freikorps unit headed by...

Propaganda was a crucial tool of the German Nazi Party from its earliest days in 1920, after its reformation from the German Worker’s Party (DAP), to its...