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Flag of the Eiserne Division ("Iron Division") The Eiserne Division ("Iron Division") was the name of an anti-communist military formation made up of German volunteers that took part in the Latvian War of Independence in the Baltic States in 1919. It was the best-known Freikorps formation in the Baltic States.
However, the Freikorps' goal of creating a German-dominated state in Courland and Livonia failed. Many of the German Freikorps members who served in the Baltic left Latvia with the belief that they had been "stabbed in the back" by the Weimar Republic, under President Friedrich Ebert. Hundreds of Baltic Freikorps soldiers had planned to settle ...
Free Corps Denmark, a Danish volunteer collaborationist group in the Waffen-SS that was founded by the National Socialist Workers' Party of Denmark, and participated in the invasion of the Soviet Union. British Free Corps, a Waffen-SS unit made up of former British Commonwealth prisoners of war. Freikorps Sauerland
They were trained by late May. The government under president Friedrich Ebert utilized the Freikorps units to quell socialist and communist uprisings, such as against members of the Spartacus League. In August, Berthold's Freikorps moved to fight in the Baltic states. In September, the Freikorps became part of the Iron Division in Lithuania.
New film from writer-director Sean Durkin is based on real-life wrestlers the Von Erich family
The BFC did not have a "commander" per se as it was the intention of the SS to appoint a British commander when a suitable British officer came forward. However, three German Waffen-SS officers acted as the Verbindungsoffizier ("liaison officer") between the SS-Hauptamt Amtsgruppe D/3, which was responsible for the unit and the British volunteers, and in practice they acted as the unit ...
The cast features Zac Efron as Kevin Von Erich, Jeremy Allen White as Kerry Von Erich, Harris Dickinson as David Von Erich, Stanley Simons as Mike Von Erich, and Holt McCallany as family patriarch ...
It's hard to fathom how the so-called "Von Erich Curse" can be viewed as nothing more than a mythologized idea by ardent wrestling fans and even nonexistent by the family's lone living relative.