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  2. 10th Mountain Assault Brigade - Wikipedia

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    The 10th Mountain Assault Brigade "Edelweiss" (Ukrainian: 10-та окрема гірсько-штурмова бригада "Едельвейс") is a unit of the Ukrainian Ground Forces. Based in Kolomyia and part of Operational Command West , the brigade has fought in the war in Donbas , and the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine .

  3. 1st Mountain Division (Wehrmacht) - Wikipedia

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    The 1st Mountain Division murdered 5,200 Italian soldiers from the 33rd Infantry Division "Acqui" in September 1943 on the Greek island of Cefalonia after they had surrendered. The division also executed all officers and non-commissioned officers of the 151st Infantry Division "Perugia" , who had surrendered in Albania in early October 1943.

  4. Gebirgsjäger - Wikipedia

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    The mountain infantry of modern Germany carry on certain traditions of the German Alpenkorps (Alpine corps) of World War I. Both countries' mountain infantry share the Edelweiß insignia, established in 1907 as a symbol of the Austro-Hungarian Landesschützen regiments by Emperor Franz Joseph I. These troops wore the edelweiss on the uniform ...

  5. Alpenkorps (German Empire) - Wikipedia

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    The Edelweiss became the symbol of the German Gebirgsjäger. Although the Bundeswehr does not formally carry the traditions of any pre-1945 units, the Gebirgsjäger continued to wear the Edelweiss cap badge and informally maintain the traditions of the Alpenkorps.

  6. 24th Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Karstjäger - Wikipedia

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    Totenkopf und Edelweiss: General Artur Phleps und die südosteuropäischen Gebirgsverbände der Waffen-SS im Partisanenkampf auf dem Balkan 1942–1945 [Skull and Edelweiss: General Artur Phleps and the Southeastern European Mountain Units of the Waffen-SS in Combat against Partisans in the Balkans 1942–1945] (in German).

  7. 4th Mountain Division (Wehrmacht) - Wikipedia

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    The 4th Mountain Division (German: 4. Gebirgs Division ) was a mountain infantry division of the Heer, the army of the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II. The division was active between October 1940 and May 1940 and participated in the Balkans campaign as well as on the Eastern Front .

  8. Edelweiss (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    EDELWEISS, a European experiment searching for dark matter; 10th Mountain Assault Brigade (Ukraine), a unit of the Ukrainian Ground Forces known as Edelweiss; Special Purpose Unit of the National Guard "Vanguard" (previously "Edelweiss"), a special unit of the National Guard of Russia

  9. Imperial-Royal Mountain Troops - Wikipedia

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    Together with the edelweiss on the collar, it formed the badge of the Imperial-Royal Mountain Troops. Otherwise the uniform was the same as that of the Jäger infantry. What was new was the pike gray mountain dress: mountain boots, mountain socks, britches, heavy jacket, cap, coat, cape. Officers continued to wear their previous Landwehr ...