• The Black Reichswehr (German: Schwarze Reichswehr) was the unofficial name for the extra-legal paramilitary formation that was secretly a part of the...
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    such means as the Black Reichswehr, the illegal paramilitary groups it sponsored in contravention of the Versailles Treaty. The Reichswehr saw itself as a...
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  • monarchists, communists, and Nazis; for years, he has been investigating the Black Reichswehr (seasons 1–2) Leonie Benesch as Greta Overbeck, a down-on-her-luck...
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    Kurt von Schleicher (category Ministers of the Reichswehr)
    player in the Reichswehr's efforts to avoid the restrictions of the Treaty of Versailles, Schleicher rose to power as head of the Reichswehr's Armed Forces...
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  • Bruno Ernst Buchrucker (category Black Reichswehr personnel)
    of Versailles which limited the size of German's armed forces – a Black Reichswehr was established with a permanent base of 2,000 men and an additional...
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    Fedor von Bock (category Black Reichswehr personnel)
    the Black Reichswehr. It consisted of "labour battalions" (Arbeitskommandos), purportedly made up of civilian volunteers attached to Reichswehr units...
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  • coup attempt against the Weimar Republic by units of the paramilitary Black Reichswehr under Bruno Ernst Buchrucker. It was launched in response to nationalist...
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    Gebhard Ludwig Himmler (category Black Reichswehr personnel)
    Gebhard Ludwig Himmler (29 July 1898 – 22 June 1982) was a German Nazi functionary, mechanical engineer and older brother of Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler...
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  • measure to counter the perceived threat from communist East Germany. Black Reichswehr Operation Gladio Klaus Wiegrefe (May 14, 2014). "Files Uncovered: Nazi...
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    the Ruhr uprising. In 1921 the Reichswehr organized the Black Reichswehr, a secret reserve networked within the Reichswehr and organised as labour battalions...
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  • member of the Black Reichswehr in Döberitz in Brandenburg, was killed by Black Reichswehr members after he "deserted" from the Black Reichswehr. July 1923:...
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    Walter Stennes (category Black Reichswehr personnel)
    Walter Franz Maria Stennes (12 April 1895 – 19 May 1983) was a leader of the Sturmabteilung (SA, stormtroopers, or "brownshirts") of the Nazi Party in...
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    Hans von Seeckt (category Colonel generals of the Reichswehr)
    trying a member of the Black Reichswehr for murder, Seeckt admitted that the Black Reichswehr was controlled by the Reichswehr, and argued that the murders...
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    Kurt Jahnke (category Black Reichswehr personnel)
    Mare Island Naval Shipyard in San Francisco, "likely" responsible for the Black Tom explosion in Jersey City, New Jersey, and are suspected of other explosions...
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    Hans-Jürgen von Blumenthal (category Black Reichswehr personnel)
    Hans-Jürgen Graf von Blumenthal (23 February 1907 – 13 October 1944) was a German aristocrat and Army officer in the Second World War who was executed...
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    Freikorps, which was banned in 1921. In the same year, the Reichswehr set up the Black Reichswehr, a secret reserve of trained soldiers networked within its...
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  • Paul Schulz (category Black Reichswehr personnel)
    officer and Nazi Party official perhaps best known as a leader of the Black Reichswehr in the 1920s. Schulz entered non-commissioned officers' school in Potsdam...
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    secretly trained by the Reichswehr in order to exceed the limits on troop strength set by the Treaty of Versailles. The Black Reichswehr took its orders from...
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    Konstantin Hierl (category Black Reichswehr personnel)
    paramilitary Freikorps unit. Hierl played a role in organizing the Black Reichswehr paramilitary forces in the early years of the Weimar Republic. He was...
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  • Fritz Warnecke (category Black Reichswehr personnel)
    Friedrich "Fritz" Warnecke (25 November 1898 – 4 May 1968) was a German general (Generalmajor) in the Wehrmacht during World War II. He was a recipient...
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  • government in 1922. Schwarze ReichswehrBlack Reichswehr. Extra-legal paramilitary formations promoted by the German Reichswehr to circumvent manpower restrictions...
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    Helmuth von Pannwitz (category Black Reichswehr personnel)
    to Poland. Under an assumed name, Pannwitz became a leader in the Black Reichswehr in 1923 where he was involved in a number of Feme murders. In the aftermath...
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    arrival, Witzke was awarded the Iron Cross, First and Second Class, by the Reichswehr. Witzke later joined the Abwehr, and after World War II, lived in Hamburg...
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    Karl-Heinrich Brenner (category Black Reichswehr personnel)
    Karl Jakob Heinrich Brenner - also Karl-Heinrich Brenner - (1 May 1895 – 14 February 1954) was a decorated German general of the Waffen-SS who held the...
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  • Party; became a major embarrassment for Hitler. Black Reichswehr — another name for the Freikorps system 'black' soldiers — the ex-soldiers involved in Freikorps...
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  • Johannes Bernhardt (category Black Reichswehr personnel)
    Johannes Eberhard Franz Bernhardt (1 January 1897 – 13 November 1980) was a Spanish-German businessman and SS member. He played an important role during...
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    Party (DNVP). In 1921, the Freikorps were banned, and the Reichswehr set up the Black Reichswehr, a secret reserve of trained soldiers networked within its...
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  • Kurt Hintze (category Black Reichswehr personnel)
    Völkisch German Social Party. For part of 1923, he belonged to the Black Reichswehr, an extra-legal paramilitary organization. After that he became a member...
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  • Bolko von Richthofen (category Black Reichswehr personnel)
    Bolko von Richthofen (September 13, 1899 – March 18, 1983) was a German archaeologist and a distant relative of the family of Manfred von Richthofen, the...
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    Nikolaus von Halem (category Black Reichswehr personnel)
    had two sons. After his studies, Halem initially joined far-right Black Reichswehr paramilitary troops and became involved in Adolf Hitler's Beer Hall...
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