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Former members of the division were later also involved in the Free Corps battles in the Ruhr area (Ruhr uprising) and Upper Silesia (uprisings in Upper Silesia). The ideology of the Ride to the East and the anti-Bolshevism of the Free Corps was one of the roots of National Socialism. The former Baltic soldiers of the Freikorps were a ...
The Western Russian Volunteer Army, unlike the pro-Entente Volunteer Army in Southern Russia, was supported and in fact put together under German auspices.The Compiègne Armistice of November 1918, in article 12, stipulated that troops of the former German Empire would remain in the Baltic provinces of the former Russian Empire to help fight against Bolshevik advances and that such German ...
Major Bischoff created a German Legion from over a dozen Freikorps units and turned the units over to the West Russian Volunteer Army. In all, the Iron Division transferred over 14,000 men, 64 aircraft, 56 artillery pieces, and 156 machine guns. Six cavalry units and a field hospital also went over.
Helmut Bischoff, SS Lieutenant Colonel; Wilhelm Bittrich, SS General; Dr. Kurt Blome, Nazi physician/SA General; Hans-Jürgen von Blumenthal, German Army Major; Günther Blumentritt, German Army General; Arthur Böckenhauer, SA General; Fedor von Bock, German Army Field Marshal; Friedrich-Wilhelm Bock, SS Colonel; Karl Bodenschatz, Luftwaffe ...
British Free Corps (BFC; German: Britisches Freikorps), in the Waffen-SS World War II; Sudetendeutsches Freikorps, was a paramilitary fifth-columnist organisation formed by Czech German nationalists with Nazi sympathies; Free Corps Denmark (1941–1943), Danish volunteer free corps created by the Danish Nazi Party (DNSAP) Freikorps Sauerland
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
Pages in category "20th-century Freikorps personnel" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 495 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Bischoff, Josef: Die letzte Front. Geschichte der Eiserne Division im Baltikum 1919 (Berlin, 1935) Darstellungen aus den Nachkriegskämpfen deutscher Truppen und Freikorps, vol. 2: "Der Feldzug im Baltikum bis zur zweiten Einnahme von Riga. Januar bis Mai 1919", Berlin 1937; vol. 3: "Die Kämpfe im Baltikum nach der zweiten Einnahme von Riga.