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Sudetendeutsches Freikorps, a German nationalist paramilitary that fought against Czechoslovakia for annexation of the Sudetenland into Germany. 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 (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
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.
The American occupation zone in Germany (German: Amerikanische Besatzungszone), also known as the US-Zone, and the Southwest zone, [1] was one of the four occupation zones established by the Allies of World War II in Germany west of the Oder–Neisse line in July 1945, around two months after the German surrender and the end of World War II in Europe.
The Guards Cavalry Rifle Division (Garde-Kavallerie-Schützen-Division), a major Freikorps unit, enters Munich after crushing the Munich Soviet Republic.In the aftermath of World War I and during the German revolution of 1918–1919, Freikorps units consisting largely of World War I veterans were raised as paramilitary militias.
Therefore, the North German and eventually Imperial German flags prominently featured the Prussian colours (black and white) as well as symbols like the Prussian eagle and the Iron Cross. And while seafaring was the traditional domain of the Hanse in Germany, virtually all of the 19th century German coastline (including the North Sea coast) and ...
Freikorps (English: Free Corps) were German volunteer military or paramilitary units. The term was originally applied to voluntary armies formed in German lands from the middle of the 18th century onwards. Between World War I and World War II the term was also used for the anti-communist paramilitary organizations that arose during the Weimar ...
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 ...