• The 6th Division was a unit of the Reichswehr. In the Order of 31 July 1920 for the Reduction of the Army (to comply with the upper limits on the size...
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  • (Winter War) Finnish 6th Division (Continuation War) 6th Division (Reichswehr) 6th Division (German Empire) 6th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht), Germany...
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  • The 1st Cavalry Division was a unit of the Reichswehr, the armed forces of Germany during the Weimar Republic. It consisted of 6 cavalry regiments, the...
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  • The 3rd Division was a unit of the Reichswehr. In the Order of 31 July 1920 for the Reduction of the Army (to comply with the upper limits on the size...
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  • It had been one of the original infantry divisions of the Reichswehr. The staff of the 1st Infantry Division was initially assembled under the cover name...
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    The 29th Infantry Division was a unit of the German army created in the fall of 1936. It was based on the old Reichswehr 15th Infantry Regiment and drew...
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  • The 2nd Division was a unit of the Reichswehr. In the Order of 31 July 1920 for the Reduction of the Army (to comply with the upper limits on the size...
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    cover name Wehrgauleitung Frankfurt in 1934 by expanding the 3rd Division of the Reichswehr. It was redesignated Kommandant von Frankfurt shortly afterward...
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  • (German Empire) 1st Cavalry Division (Reichswehr), Germany 1st Cavalry Division (Wehrmacht), Germany 1st Cossack Cavalry Division, a unit of the Wehrmacht...
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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, but...
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    Werner Kempf (category Reichswehr personnel)
    Imperial German Army in 1905; following World War I, he served in the Reichswehr and later the Wehrmacht. In October 1937 Kempf took command of the newly...
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    founded as a cover formation during the Reichswehr era. It was active from 1934 to 1945. The 11th Infantry Division was initially known by the cover name...
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    Silesia and Pomerania. In 1919 Reichenau joined in the newly established Reichswehr of the Weimar Republic. The officer corps of the new armed forces' was...
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    Franz Ritter von Hörauf (category Reichswehr personnel)
    officer. During the republic, he was active in the Freikorps and the Reichswehr. He then joined the Nazi Party and its paramilitary unit, the Sturmabteilung...
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    Pemsel remained in the shrunken German Reichswehr. In 1935 Pemsel became a staff officer in the 1st Mountain Division. During the Second World War he fought...
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  • Karl Mayr (category Reichswehr personnel)
    and Adolf Hitler's immediate superior in an Army Intelligence Division in the Reichswehr, 1919–1920. Mayr was particularly known as the man who introduced...
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    Maximilian von Weichs (category Major generals of the Reichswehr)
    Reichswehr where he worked at a number of General Staff positions. Transferred from the 3rd Cavalry Division to command Germany's 1st Panzer Division...
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    of VI Army Corps, which was formed in October 1934 from the 6th Division of the Reichswehr.: 9f.  After the German occupation of Belgium (1940), parts...
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    Hauptmann due to Reichswehr budget cuts, but was able to return to active duty in November that year. He was assigned to 6th Division in Münster and served...
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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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    Friedrich Dollmann (category Lieutenant generals of the Reichswehr)
    worked as a staff officer in the newly created Reichswehr Group Command IV of the Provisional Reichswehr in Munich, a post he retained for one year. On...
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    accepted into the Reichsheer. He was first used in the Reichswehr 13th Artillery Regiment (Reichswehr-Artillerie-Regiment 13). With the formation of the 100...
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    Friedrich Paulus (category Reichswehr personnel)
    Freikorps. He was chosen as one of only 4,000 officers to serve in the Reichswehr, the defensive army that the Treaty of Versailles had limited to 100,000...
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  • and I - III Bavarian) each of two divisions (1st and 2nd Guards, 1st - 42nd and 1st - 6th Bavarian). Each division included a cavalry brigade (of two...
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    Wilhelm List (category Lieutenant generals of the Reichswehr)
    subordinates then Corporal Adolf Hitler. After the war, List stayed in the Reichswehr. In 1922, he became commander of an Alpine battalion. Called to the Defense...
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    gained political power. Hitler also wanted to appease leaders of the Reichswehr (the Weimar Republic's armed forces) and conservatives of the country...
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    Fritz von Loßberg (category Generals of Infantry (Reichswehr))
    exponents of the system of defence-in-depth. Loßberg retired from the Reichswehr on 31 January 1927 and died in Lübeck on 14 May 1942. Loßberg was born...
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    Hünersdorff stayed in the Reichswehr. When World War II broke out, Hünersdorff served on the staff of the newly raised 253rd Infantry Division. On 25 October 1939...
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  • Gerhard Glokke (category Major generals of the Reichswehr)
    company-commander in the Reichswehr-Schützen-Regiment 9 of the Provisional Reichswehr. The official formation of the Reichswehr on 1 January 1921 included...
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    (intelligence agent) of an Aufklärungskommando (reconnaissance unit) of the Reichswehr, assigned to influence other soldiers and to infiltrate the German Workers'...
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