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  2. List of Freikorps members - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. British Free Corps - Wikipedia

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    Leading members of the Corps included Thomas Haller Cooper (although he was actually an Unterscharführer in the Waffen-SS proper [19]), Roy Courlander, Edwin Barnard Martin, Frank McLardy, Alfred Minchin and John Wilson – these men "later became known among the renegades as the 'Big Six', although this was a notional elite whose membership ...

  4. List of members of the British Free Corps - Wikipedia

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    Starting in February 1944, BFC members were ordered to adopt aliases for official purposes, although several declined to do so. [3] After the War, some members of the Corps were prosecuted. Of those members, those who had been serving in the armed forces were court-martialed, while the merchant seamen and other civilians were tried in the Old ...

  5. List of free corps - Wikipedia

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    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

  6. Freikorps - Wikipedia

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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

  7. Weimar paramilitary groups - Wikipedia

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    Recruiting poster for the Freikorps Lützow: "Who will save the Fatherland? That is Lützow's wild, daring pursuit. German men! Soldiers of all weapons! Join our ranks!" Weimar paramilitary groups were militarily organized units that were formed outside of the regular German Army following the defeat of the German Empire in World War I.

  8. Eiserne Division - Wikipedia

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    It was the best-known Freikorps formation in the Baltic States. The unit was deployed against Soviet Russia-backed Soviet Latvia, and later fought against the army of the Republic of Latvia after a defection to Russian monarchist command. The division, which at times numbered up to 16,000 men, was disbanded at the beginning of 1920 due to mutiny.

  9. Free Corps Denmark - Wikipedia

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    Free Corps Denmark (Danish: Frikorps Danmark, German: Freikorps „Danmark“) was a unit of the Waffen-SS during World War II consisting of volunteers from Denmark.It was established following an initiative by the National Socialist Workers' Party of Denmark (DNSAP) in the immediate aftermath of the German invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941 and subsequently endorsed by Denmark's ...