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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
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 Outlaws is a 1930 novel by the German writer Ernst von Salomon.Its German title is Die Geächteten, which means "the ostracised".Set between 1919 and 1922, the narrative is based on Salomon's experiences from the Freikorps, and includes an account of the 1922 assassination of foreign minister Walther Rathenau, in which the then 19-year-old Salomon was peripherically involved.
The unit was officially founded in February 1813 as Königlich Preußisches Freikorps von Lützow (Royal Prussian Free Corps von Lützow). Lützow, who had been an officer under the ill-fated Ferdinand von Schill, obtained permission from the Prussian Chief-of-Staff Gerhard von Scharnhorst to organize a free corps consisting of infantry, cavalry, and Tyrolean Jäger (literally, “hunters ...
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 "Drang nach Osten" ('Drive 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 ...
Walther von Lüttwitz was in command of all Freikorps in Berlin and the surrounding area, while Wilhelm Reinhard commanded the Freikorps Reinhard and Waldemar Pabst, known as a perpetrator of the murders of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, commanded the Guards Cavalry Rifle Division. In Spandau, revolutionary soldiers guarding a weapons ...
Kameradschaft Freikorps und Bund Oberland: Bildchronik zur Geschichte des Freikorps und Bundes Oberland. München 1974; Peter Schuster: Für das stolze Edelweiß, Brienna, Achau, 1995. ISBN 3-9803875-1-8; Oliver Schröm, Andrea Röpke: Stille Hilfe für braune Kameraden. Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-86153-231-X
The book traces the life stories of the contributors through basic training and World War II. Major campaigns of Easy Company include the Normandy Campaign, Operation Market Garden in the Netherlands, the Siege of Bastogne, Hagenau, Ruhr/ Germany, and occupation duties in Austria. Three essays are provided at the back of the book in appendix form.