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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 Freikorps especially took part in significant fighting in the Baltics, Silesia, Berlin during the Spartacist uprising and the Ruhr during the 1920 uprising there. [2] The paramilitary groups as a whole contributed significantly to the remilitarization of Germany between the wars.
The uprising was sparked by the right-wing Kapp Putsch in Berlin and had as its goal the establishment of a soviet-style council republic in Germany. After an agreement to end a general strike in the region failed, the German government sent in Reichswehr (regular army) and Freikorps (paramilitary) units to put down the rebellion. They acted ...
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 Annaberg hill with the monastery located on top, was strategically significant as from its peak the whole valley of the Oder/Odra could be dominated. [14] The German-Upper Silesian commanders, Generals Höfer and Hülsen, decided to use three battalions of the Bavarian Oberland, which were transported to Krappitz (Krapkowice), on 19/20 May 1921.
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
The historian Ralf Hoffrogge sees the general strike and the March Battles as a turning point in the history of the November Revolution and emphasizes its supraregional significance: "Unlike the January Uprising, the March strikes were a supra-regional movement and therefore far more dangerous for the government.
The brigade's advance into Munich without command orders to do so led to fierce street fighting in which the combined government units crushed the workers' uprising. [7] The Freikorps' brutal actions in the street battles, including looting and the mistreatment and shooting of those arrested, illustrated the increasing independence of the ...