Reichswehr (lit. 'Reich Defence') was the official name of the German armed forces during the Weimar Republic and the first years of the Third Reich. After...
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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 7th 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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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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The 2nd Infantry Division of Nazi Germany's Army was created from components of the Reichswehr's old 2nd Division in 1934, at first under the cover name...
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opportunity to be accepted into the Reichswehr or to find jobs in industry. After demobilisation, many members of the division remained together as agricultural...
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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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Josef Gangl (category Reichswehr personnel)
joined the Reichswehr, which was then limited to 100,000 men, in order to begin a career as a professional soldier in Artillery Regiment 7 in Nuremberg...
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After the war, he continued his military career as a captain in the Reichswehr and provided assistance to Franz Ritter von Epp's Freikorps. In 1919,...
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newly gained political power. He also wanted to appease leaders of the Reichswehr, the German military, who feared and despised the SA as a potential rival...
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Brandenburgers (redirect from German Panzergrenadier Division Brandenburg)
(captain) Theodor von Hippel, who, after having his idea rejected by the Reichswehr, approached Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, commander of the German Intelligence...
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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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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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Hans von Seeckt (category Colonel generals of the Reichswehr)
During the years of the Weimar Republic he was chief of staff for the Reichswehr from 1919 to 1920 and commander in chief of the German Army from 1920...
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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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the 21st Bavarian Infantry Regiment of the 7th Infantry Division of the Reichswehr. The division participated in the annexation of Austria in March 1938...
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tasked to deploy one division by 1 October 1920 (resulting in the 1st through 7th Divisions of the Reichswehr, with the divisional ordinal number matching...
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force). The designation "Wehrmacht" replaced the previously used term Reichswehr (Reich Defence) and was the manifestation of the Nazi regime's efforts...
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Werner von Blomberg (category Colonel generals of the Reichswehr)
started a policy of "frontier defense" (Grenzschutz) under which the Reichswehr would stockpile arms in secret depots and begin training volunteers beyond...
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List of flags of the Wehrmacht and Heer (1933–1945) (section Supreme command flags of the Reichswehr and Wehrmacht)
Wehrmacht and Heer which were used in the years between 1933 and 1945 by the Reichswehr, Wehrmacht, and Heer. List of German standards at the Moscow Victory Parade...
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Ludwig Beck (category Lieutenant generals of the Reichswehr)
was a leading defence witness at the trial in Leipzig of three junior Reichswehr officers: Lieutenant Richard Scheringer, Hans Friedrich Wendt and Hanns...
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Kahr, Bavarian state police chief Colonel Hans Ritter von Seisser and Reichswehr General Otto von Lossow formed a ruling triumvirate. Hitler announced...
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000—twenty times as large as the number of troops and officers in the Reichswehr (German Army). After Hitler and the Nazis obtained national power, the...
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Wilhelm Keitel (category Major generals of the Reichswehr)
posted to the staff of an infantry division in 1915. After the war, Keitel was retained in the newly created Reichswehr of the Weimar Republic and played...
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the war, he remained in the Reichswehr. When Hitler and the Nazis come to power in 1933 Von Arnim was still in the Reichswehr and continued to serve in...
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Dietrich von Choltitz (category Reichswehr personnel)
forces) of Nazi Germany during World War II, as well as serving in the Reichswehr of the Weimar Republic, and the Royal Saxon Army during World War I. Born...
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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 childhood...
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camouflage pattern developed by Germany in the late 1920s, first issued to the Reichswehr in 1931. Splittertarnmuster was first printed on the newly designed and...
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next crisis came in the autumn of 1926 when Reichswehr commander Seeckt, without consulting the Reichswehr minister, invited the eldest son of the ex-crown...
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