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    Trümbach's Freikorps (Voluntaires de Prusse) (FI) Kleist's Freikorps (FII) Glasenapp's Free Dragoons (F III) Schony's Freikorps (F IV) Gschray's Freikorps (F...
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    The Sudetendeutsches Freikorps (SFK) (Sudeten German Free Corps, also known as the Freikorps Sudetenland, Freikorps Henlein and Sudetendeutsche Legion)...
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    The Freikorps in the Baltic were German paramilitary units that formed after the German Empire's defeat in World War I. Their aim was to prevent the advance...
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    The Freikorps Oberland ("Highlands Free Corps"; also Bund Oberland or Kameradschaft Freikorps und Bund Oberland) was a voluntary paramilitary organization...
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  • the Freikorps to his service, as they often completed tasks, missions, etc. with them in the final months of the war. Hoffmann saw the Freikorps Sauerland...
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  • Oskar von Watter began to establish Freikorps units out of troops returning from the Western Front. Thus the Freikorps Lichtschlag was created in the area...
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    forces at the 100,000 man limit, that the Freikorps were officially disbanded in the spring of 1920. Some Freikorps members were then accepted into the Reichswehr...
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    The British Free Corps (abbr. BFC; German: Britisches Freikorps) was a unit of the Waffen-SS of Nazi Germany during World War II, made up of British and...
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  • Freikorps, then removed almost all of its members from the Reichswehr and limited Freikorps access to government funding and equipment. The Freikorps'...
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    Lützow Free Corps (German: Lützowsches Freikorps pronounced [ˈlʏtso:vʃəs ˈfraɪˌkɔɒ̯ps]) was a volunteer force of the Prussian army during the Napoleonic...
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  • paramilitary award of the German Freikorps which was issued in the 1920s. Awarded under the authority of local Freikorps commander Major Kobe von Keppenfels...
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    the counterrevolutionaries was five formations: the Freikorps Reinhard, Freikorps Lützow, Freikorps Hülsen, Guards Cavalry Rifle Division and German Protection...
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    war, and purged of any mention of the Freikorps Caspari or Division Gerstenberg. Freikorps Lichtschlag Freikorps Oberland Marinebrigade Ehrhardt Schwarzwälder...
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    Freikorps, collapsed. The division was forced to retreat. In mid-December, the last units crossed the German border at Memel. The remaining Freikorps...
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    other Freikorps awards were declared obsolete with World War I service thereafter recognized by a single award, known as the Honour Cross. Freikorps awards...
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  • related to Freikorps. Axis History Factbook; Freikorps section – By Marcus Wendel and contributors;  site also contains an apolitical forum Freikorps Master...
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    free corps. Freikorps Plehwe (Captain von Plehwe [de]): about 3,000 soldiers (the former 2nd Guard Reserve Regiment), before Libau Freikorps Diebitsch:...
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    Member of the Freikorps and Nazi Party. Wilhelm Ehrlich, bank clerk and World War I veteran, born 8 August 1894. Member of the Freikorps and Nazi Party...
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    Sicarii Sich Battalion Silver Shirts Sturmabteilung Sudetendeutsches Freikorps Terror Against Terror Third Klan Ukrainian Insurgent Army Ukrainian People's...
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    near Wetter defeated an advance party of the Freikorps Lichtschlag. Two days later, the full Freikorps Lichtschlag was badly beaten near Aplerbeck, and...
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    Sicarii Sich Battalion Silver Shirts Sturmabteilung Sudetendeutsches Freikorps Terror Against Terror Third Klan Ukrainian Insurgent Army Ukrainian People's...
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    its cooperation with the Supreme Army Command and the Freikorps. The brutal actions of the Freikorps during the various revolts estranged many left democrats...
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    and calls went out for the formation of more Freikorps units. Since early December 1918, such Freikorps units had been forming from former frontline soldiers...
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    Kapp Putsch (category 20th-century Freikorps)
    estimated at 350 000, with more than 250 000 men enlisted in the various Freikorps ("free corps"), volunteer paramilitary units, largely consisting of returning...
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    him the services of 20,000 men of the Freikorps under Lt. General Burghard von Oven [de]. Oven and the Freikorps, along with Hoffmann's loyalist elements...
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  • July 1920: Willi Schmidt, a member of Freikorps Roßbach, was shot by Edmund Heines and other members of the Freikorps in a forest in the Greifenhagen district...
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    White Russian units and the Freikorps moved on and captured Riga on 22 May 1919. After the capture of Riga, the Freikorps were accused of killing 300...
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    Oskar Dirlewanger (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
    contempt for the laws and rules of civil society. In 1919, he joined various Freikorps paramilitary militias and fought against German communists in Thuringia...
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    Sicarii Sich Battalion Silver Shirts Sturmabteilung Sudetendeutsches Freikorps Terror Against Terror Third Klan Ukrainian Insurgent Army Ukrainian People's...
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    extremist German nationalist ("Völkisch nationalist"), racist and populist Freikorps paramilitary culture, which fought against communist uprisings in post–World...
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