• Division (previously Grenzschutz Abschnittskommando 15; later 395th Infantry Division) 526th Infantry Division (previously Grenzschutz Abschnittskommando...
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    Early that year, Schleicher had started a policy of "frontier defense" (Grenzschutz) under which the Reichswehr would stockpile arms in secret depots and...
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    organization in the Weimar Republic. Zelewski enrolled with the border guards (Grenzschutz) the same year. Zelewski legally added "von dem Bach" to his family name...
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    Brigade Netze Associated border guards Grenzschutz-Abschnittskommando 1 Grenzschutz-Abschnittskommando 2 Grenzschutz-Abschnittskommando 12 Army reserves...
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    (Upper) Silesia.[citation needed] On 15 August 1919, German border guards (Grenzschutz) massacred ten Silesian civilians in a labour dispute at the Mysłowice...
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    young to serve in World War I, in 1919 he enrolled in the Freikorps "Grenzschutz Ost"; he served as a sergeant major in the German armed forces (Reichswehr)...
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    Maltzan, was part of the German Resistance. After the war, he joined the Grenzschutz Ost Freikorps as a General Staff officer, serving in Silesia and Pomerania...
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    Potsdam of the Volunteer Border Protection Unit East and Upper East (Grenzschutz Ost/Oberost) from 18 January 1919. He retired on 20 September 1919 with...
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    senior members in Franz Ritter von Epp's Bayerisches Freikorps für den Grenzschutz Ost ("Bavarian Free Corps for Border Patrol East"), formed in Ohrdruf...
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    the original on 14 March 2022. Retrieved 13 March 2022. "Polnischer Grenzschutz weist Rassismus-Vorwürfe zurück". Die Zeit. 28 February 2022. Archived...
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    subordinate to the government, will be at the government's disposal for the Grenzschutz Ost [Border Protection East]. signed by the head of the Naval Station...
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    Silesian refugees, and took 40 people hostage. Moreoever, soldiers of the Grenzschutz Ost executed 5 insurgents in Moschczenitz in retaliation for the battle...
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    having lost the element of surprise and raising the awareness of the Grenzschutz. Opposing insurgent forces in Bobrek were two German companies: 270 men...
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    Staff). That year Schleicher had started a policy of "frontier defense" (Grenzschutz), under which the Reichswehr would stockpile arms in secret depots and...
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  • colour plates, Die Uniformen der Deutichen Armee ISBN 3-88706-249-3 "Grenzschutz 2018 – Die Übung läuft". Österreichs Garde. Gardekameradschaft. 2018-08-08...
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    organized large protests in Mysłowice. On August 15, 1919, the German Grenzschutz opened fire on protesting Polish miners and their families, killing seven...
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    fighting with the regular German army and irregular units such as the Grenzschutz. Fighting continued until the renewal of the truce between the Entente...
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    on 16 August at At 11:00 p.m. where he disarmed and took captive 12 Grenzschutz soldiers placing the village under insurgent control. As planned, Szczygieł's...
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    in Black in 1914. From 1919 to May 1921, he served in the Freikorps Grenzschutz Ost and fought in the Baltic states. According to Richard Evans, Greiser...
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  • concentration camps, the SS-Verfügungstruppe (Special-purpose troops), and the Grenzschutz (Border Control regiments). During the late 1930s, the power of the SS-HA...
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  • on 15 October 1939 in Deutsch-Krone from the Border Protection Unit "Grenzschutz-Abschnitts-Kommando 1". In March 1940, the Higher Command was moved to...
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    from the labour corps there also were the border guard units from the Grenzschutz, which was created in 1921, mostly guarding Germany's eastern border...
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    regained independence, and on 8 January 1919 local Poles attacked a Grenzschutz unit but were repelled. In revenge the Germans shelled the town by artillery...
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  • honorific often indicative of low-grade formations. Grenze – border. Grenzschutz – border patrol. Greuelerzählungen – atrocity stories. Gröfaz [de] –...
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    rifles and 25 pistols. The city of Beuthen housed a sizeable garrison of Grenzschutz units, barring the capture of the city by insurgent forces. Nonetheless...
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  • Freiheitsbewegung Schwarz-Weiß-Rot (Reichsbund der Baltikum-, Oberschlesien-, Grenzschutz- und Freikorpskämpfer) FSWR Associated with the DNVP. Freiwirtschaftsbund...
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    Krieg um die Alpen: Der Erste Weltkrieg im Alpenraum und der bayerische Grenzschutz in Tirol. Berlin 2008, p. 60. Hugo Hantsch: Leopold Graf Berchtold. Grand...
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  • Warsaw Pact. Kurt Frotscher, Horst Liebig: Opfer deutscher Teilung. Beim Grenzschutz getötet. GNN-Verlag, Schkeuditz 2005, ISBN 3-89819-198-2. Deportation...
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    Cavalry Regiment. Jeschonnek joined the Freikorps aerial detachments, Grenzschutz Fliegerabteilungen (GFA) and flew in the same conflict. He then worked...
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    February 2015. Hertle & Nooke (2009) pp. 474ff Lappenküper 2001, p. 1738. "GRENZSCHUTZ/DDR-FLUCHT: Holt ihn raus". Der Spiegel. 12 January 1970. Archived from...
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