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Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler (; 20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party (, abbreviated NSDAP), commonly known as the Nazi Party. He was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and served as head of state as Führer und Reichskanzler from 1934 to 1945.
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Arthur Greiser
Arthur Greiser (22 January 1897 – 14 July 1946) was a Nazi German politician and SS Obergruppenfuhrer. He was one of the persons primarily responsible for organizing the Holocaust in Poland and numerous other war crimes and crimes against humanity, for which he was tried, convicted and executed by hanging after World War II.
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Arthur Liebehenschel
Arthur Liebehenschel (25 November 1901 - 28 January 1948) was a commandant at the Auschwitz and Majdanek death camps during World War II. He was convicted of war crimes after the war and executed.
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Beppo Römer
Josef “Beppo” Römer (November 17, 1892 – September 25, 1944) was an Oberland Freikorps leader after the war, later a KPD organizer. He worked against the Third Reich and was executed by the regime.
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Bernhard von Hülsen
Bernhard Franz Karl Adolf von Hülsen (20 April 1865 – 21 April 1950) was a German general.
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Bolko von Richthofen
:''This article is about the German archaeologist. Bolko von Richthofen (1903–1971), with whom he is sometimes confused, was the younger brother of Manfred von Richthofen and Lothar von Richthofen, World War I flying aces.
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Bruno Loerzer
Bruno Loerzer (22 January 1891 - 23 August 1960) was an officer in the German Luftstreitkräfte during World War I and Luftwaffe during World War II.
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Curt von Gottberg
Curt von Gottberg (February 11, 1896 - 31 May 1945) was a Nazi official and military commander. Beginning in October 1942, within a few years he had personally combined the highest civil and military powers in occupied Belarus: from March 1943 as representative of the HSSPF for central Russia, and from October 1943 as the acting Commissioner-General () of the occupied Belorussian SSR (). Only a few days before the collapse of the German Army Group Centre, in early July 1944, he was promoted to HSSPF of Belarus and central Russia.
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Emanuel Schäfer
Emanuel Schäfer (April 20, 1900 – December 4, 1974) was an SS-Oberführer (Senior Colonel) and Reinhard Heydrich's protegee in Nazi Germany.
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Erich Koch
Erich Koch (June 19, 1896 – November 12, 1986) was a Gauleiter of the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in East Prussia from 1928 until 1945. Between 1941 and 1945 he was the Chief of Civil Administration (Chef der Zivilverwaltung) of the Bialystok district. During this period, he was also the Reichskommissar in Reichskommissariat Ukraine from 1941 until 1943. After the war, Koch stood trial in Poland and was convicted in 1959 of war crimes and sentenced to death. The sentence was commuted to life imprisonment a year later.
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Erich Ludendorff
Erich Friedrich Wilhelm Ludendorff (sometimes given incorrectly as von Ludendorff) (9 April 1865 – 20 December 1937) was a German military officer, victor of Liège, and, with Paul von Hindenburg, one of the victors of the battle of Tannenberg. From August 1916 his appointment as Generalquartiermeister made him joint head (with von Hindenburg) of Germany's war effort. From this point on he ran Germany's war effort in World War I until his resignation in October 1918.
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Ernst Kantorowicz
Ernst Hartwig Kantorowicz (May 3, 1895 - September 9, 1963) was a German-Jewish historian of medieval political and intellectual history, known for his 1927 book Kaiser Friedrich der Zweite on Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II, and in particular ''The King's Two Bodies'' (1957).
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Ernst Röhm
Ernst Julius Röhm, (November 28, 1887 – July 2, 1934) was an Imperial German army officer and later a Nazi leader. He was a co-founder of the Sturmabteilung ("Storm Battalion"; SA), the Nazi Party militia and later was the SA commander. In 1934, as part of the Night of the Long Knives, he was executed on Hitler's orders as a potential rival.
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Ernst von Salomon
Ernst von Salomon (September 25, 1902 – August 9, 1972) was a German writer and Freikorps member.
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Felix Steiner
Felix Martin Julius Steiner (23 May 1896–12 May 1966) was a German Reichswehr and Waffen-SS officer who served in both World War I and World War II.
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Franz Hayler
Franz Hayler (29 August 1900 in Schwarzenfeld – 11 September 1972 in Aschau im Chiemgau) was a German self-employed salesman who rose during the Third Reich to State Secretary and acting Reich Economics Minister as a member of the NSDAP and the SS.
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Franz Ritter von Epp
Franz Ritter von Epp (16 October 1868 in Munich – 31 December 1946 in Munich) was a regular officer in the Imperial German Army of the early part of the 20th century, who rose to the office of Reichsstatthalter of Bavaria, a position of dictatorial power, under the Nazis.
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Franz Seldte
Franz Seldte (29 June 1882 1 April 1947) was a cofounder of the German paramilitary organization Stahlhelm, Bund der Frontsoldaten, a Nazi politician, and a Reich labour minister.
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Friedrich Jeckeln
Friedrich Jeckeln (2 February 1895 - 3 February 1946) was an SS-Obergruppenführer who served as an SS and Police Leader in the occupied Soviet Union during World War II. Jeckeln led one of the largest collection of Einsatzgruppen and was personally responsible for ordering the deaths of over 100,000 Jews, Slavs, Roma, and other "undesirables" of the Third Reich.
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Fritz von Scholz
Fritz von Scholz Edler von Rerancze, (December 9, 1896 - July 28, 1944) known as Fritz von Scholz was an Austrian Austro-Hungarian Army and later German Waffen SS officer who served in both the First and Second World Wars.
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Gerhard Roßbach
Gerhard Roßbach (February 28, 1893 – August 30, 1967) was a German Freikorps leader and organizer of nationalist groups after World War I.
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Gottlob Berger
Gottlob Berger (16 July 1896 – 5 January 1975) was a German Nazi who held the rank of Obergruppenführer during World War II and was later convicted of war crimes.
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Gregor Strasser
Gregor Strasser (also Straßer, see ß) (May 31, 1892 – June 30, 1934) was a politician of the National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP). He was murdered in Berlin during the Night of the Long Knives.
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Gustav Noske
Gustav Noske (July 9, 1868 - November 30, 1946) was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). He served as the first Minister of Defence of Germany between 1919 and 1920. He is noted for quelling the communist uprisings in parts of Germany after WWI and for giving the order to assassinate Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht.
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Günther Pancke
Günther Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Pancke (1 May 1899 – 17 August 1973) was an SS-Obergruppenführer (General) and the Higher SS and Police Leader of Denmark.
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Hanns Albin Rauter
Johann Baptist Albin Rauter (February 4, 1895 – March 24, 1949) was an Austrian officer who was Higher SS and Police Leader in the occupied Netherlands during the period of 1940-1945. He reported to Heinrich Himmler and Arthur Seyss-Inquart. After World War II he was convicted of crimes against humanity and executed by firing squad.
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Hans Hinkel
Hans Hinkel (22 June 1901 in Worms – 8 February 1960 in Göttingen) was a German journalist and ministerial official in Nazi Germany.
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Hans Kammler
General Dr Ing. Hans (Heinz) Friedrich Karl Franz Kammler (August 26, 1901 – May 1945?) was a civil engineer and high-ranking officer of the SS. He oversaw SS construction projects, and towards the end of World War II was put in charge of the V-2 missile programme.
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Hans-Adolf Prützmann
Hans-Adolf Prützmann (31 August 1901, Tolkemit, Province of West Prussia - 21 May 1945, Lüneburg) was a Superior SS and Police Leader, as well as an SS Obergruppenführer. He was a senior Nazi in the administration of Latvia following the German conquest of that country in 1941 and as such was involved to an extent not yet fully determined, in carrying out The Holocaust in the Baltic States.
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Heinrich Himmler
Heinrich Luitpold Himmler ( 7 October 1900 – 23 May 1945) was Reichsführer of the SS, a military commander, and a leading member of the Nazi Party. As Chief of the German Police and later the Minister of the Interior, Himmler oversaw all internal and external police and security forces, including the Gestapo. Serving as Reichsführer and later as Commander of the Replacement (Home) Army and General Plenipotentiary for the entire Reich's administration (Generalbevollmächtigter für die Verwaltung), Himmler rose to become the second most powerful man in Nazi Germany.
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Heinz Pernet
Heinz Pernet (September 5, 1896 – June 30, 1973) a former lieutenant and Ludendorff's stepson. He was a top figure in the Beer Hall Putsch of November 1923. He was among the nine men tried and convicted along with Hitler and Ludendorff in 1924.
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Hilmar Wäckerle
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Hugo Sperrle
Hugo Sperrle (7 February 1885 – 2 April 1953) was a German field marshal of the Luftwaffe during World War II.
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Joachim Neugroschel
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Johann Rattenhuber
Johann Rattenhuber (30 April 1897 – 30 June 1957), also known as Hans Rattenhuber, was a German police and SS officer (Gruppenführer, i. e. Generalleutnant). Rattenhuber was the head of German dictator Adolf Hitler's personal (RSD) bodyguard from 1933 to 1945.
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Josef Dietrich
Josef "Sepp" Dietrich (28 May 1892 – 21 April 1966) was a German SS General. He was one of Nazi Germany's most decorated soldiers and commanded formations up to Army level during World War II. Prior to 1929 he was Adolf Hitler's chauffeur and bodyguard but received rapid promotion after his participation in the murder of Hitler's political opponents during the Night of the Long Knives. After the war, he was imprisoned by the United States for war crimes and later by Germany for murder.
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Julian Scherner
Julian Scherner (September 23, 1895-April 28, 1945) was a Nazi Party official who served in the Schutzstaffel (SS) as an SS-Oberführer. Scherner is most notorious for his career as SS and Police Leader of Kraków, Poland.
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Julius Schreck
Julius Schreck (July 13, 1898 – May 16, 1936) was an early Nazi Party member and also the first commander of the Schutzstaffel (SS).
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Karl Gebhardt
Karl Gebhardt (23 November 1897 in Haag – 2 June 1948 in Landsberg am Lech) was a German medical doctor; personal physician of Heinrich Himmler; and one of the main coordinators and perpetrators of surgical experiments performed on inmates of the concentration camps at Ravensbrück and Auschwitz.
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Karl Höfer
:Not to be confused with contemporary German painter Karl Hofer (1878-1955)
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Karl Liebknecht
(13 August 1871, Leipzig, Saxony, Germany – 15 January 1919, Berlin, Germany) was a German socialist and a co-founder with Rosa Luxemburg of the Spartacist League and the Communist Party of Germany. He is best known for his role in the Spartacist uprising of 1919. The uprising was crushed by the social democrat government and the Freikorps (WWI veterans defending the Weimar Republic) and Liebknecht and Luxemburg were killed.
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Karl von Oberkamp
SS-Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der Waffen-SS Karl Ferdinand Reichsritter von Oberkamp (1893 - 1947) was a German Heer and Waffen-SS officer who commanded the 7. SS-Freiwilligen-Gebirgs-Division Prinz Eugen, 38. SS-Division Nibelungen and the V.SS-Gebirgs-Korps. Following World War II, Reichsritter von Oberkamp was extradited to Yugoslavia, tried for war crimes and executed in Belgrade on May 4, 1947.
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Karl Wolff
Karl Friedrich Otto Wolff (13 May 1900 – 17 July 1984) was a high-ranking member of the Nazi Schutzstaffel (SS), ultimately holding the rank of SS-Obergruppenführer and General of the Waffen-SS. He became Chief of Personal Staff to the Reichsführer (Heinrich Himmler) and SS Liaison Officer to Hitler until his replacement in 1943.
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Kurt Daluege
Kurt Daluege (September 15, 1897 – October 24, 1946) was a German Nazi SS-Oberstgruppenführer and Generaloberst der Polizei as chief of the Ordnungspolizei (Order/uniformed Police) and ruled the Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia as Deputy Protector after Reinhard Heydrich's assassination.
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Ludwig Maercker
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Martin Bormann
Martin Ludwig Bormann (17 June 1900 – 2 May 1945) was a prominent Nazi official. He became head of the Party Chancellery (Parteikanzlei) and private secretary to Adolf Hitler. He gained Hitler's trust and derived immense power within the Third Reich by controlling access to the Führer and by regulating the orbits of those closest to him.
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Max Hirschberg
Max Hirschberg (1883-1964) was a German Jewish Weimar era anti-Nazi criminal defense lawyer and scholar.
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Maximilian von Herff
Maximilian von Herff (April 17, 1893 – September 6, 1945) was a German Schutzstaffel general from Hanover.
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Oskar Dirlewanger
Dr. Oskar Dirlewanger (26 September 1895, Würzburg – 5 June 1945, Altshausen) was a World War II officer of the SS who commanded the SS-Sturmbrigade Dirlewanger, a penal battalion composed of German criminals. Together with the German SS-Brigade Kaminski, the SS-Sturmbrigade Dirlewanger is regarded as one of the most controversial German military units due to its human rights abuses, including mass murder of civilians in the Warsaw Uprising.
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Oswald Pohl
Oswald Pohl (30 June 1892 - 7 June 1951) was a Nazi official and member of the SS (with a rank of SS-Obergruppenführer), involved in the mass murders of Jews in concentration camps, the so-called Final Solution.
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Peter von Heydebreck
Hans-Adam Otto von Heydebreck, called Peter von Heydebreck (1 July 1889, Köslin - 30 June 1934, Munich) was a German Freikorps- and SA leader, member of the Reichstag and a national socialist.
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Red Baron
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Reinhard Heydrich
Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich (7 March 1904 – 4 June 1942) was a high-ranking German Nazi official. He was SS-Obergruppenführer (General) and General der Polizei, chief of the Reich Main Security Office (including the SD, Gestapo and Kripo) and Stellvertretender Reichsprotektor (Deputy Reich-Protector) of Bohemia and Moravia. In August 1940, he was appointed and served as President of Interpol (the international law enforcement agency). Heydrich chaired the 1942 Wannsee Conference, which discussed plans for the deportation and extermination of all Jews in German-occupied territory. He was attacked by British-trained Czech agents on 27 May 1942 sent to assassinate him in Prague (see Operation Anthropoid). He died approximately one week later due to his injuries.
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Richard Glücks
Richard Glücks (April 22, 1889, Odenkirchen, Rhine Province – May 10, 1945) was a high-ranking Nazi official. He attained the rank of a SS-Gruppenführer and a Generalleutnant of the Waffen-SS and was from 1939 until the end of World War II as the head of Amt D: Konzentrationslagerwesen of the WVHA the highest-ranking Concentration Camps Inspector in Nazi Germany. Close to Himmler, he was directly responsible for the forced labour of the camp inmates, and was also the supervisor for the medical practices in the camps, ranging from human experimentation to the implementation of the "Final Solution", in particular the mass murder of inmates with Zyklon-B gas. When the Nazi regime fell and Germany capitulated, Glücks committed suicide by swallowing a potassium cyanide capsule.
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Richard Hildebrandt
Richard Hermann Hildebrandt (13 May 1897, Worms - 10 March 1952, Gdansk) was a politician in Nazi Germany and member of the Reichstag, and an SS-Obergruppenführer. From 1943 until his capture in 1945, he led the SS-Rasse und Siedlungshauptamt ( or "RuSHA"), the Office of Race and Settlement of the SS. He was convicted in the phase of the Nuremberg trials known as the RuSHA Trial, for measures put into force in the furtherance of the "Germanization" component of the Generalplan Ost program in the Danzig-West Prussia area.
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Rudolf Hoess
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Rudolph Berthold
Rudolf Berthold (March 24, 1891 – March 15, 1920) was a German World War I flying ace. Between 1916 and 1918 he shot down 44 enemy planes—most of them over the Belgian front. Berthold had the reputation as a ruthless, fearless and—above all—a very patriotic fighter. His perseverance and bravery made him one of the most famous German pilots of the First World War.
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Rudolph Hoess
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Viktor Lutze
Viktor Lutze (December 28, 1890–May 2, 1943) was the commander of the SA succeeding Ernst Röhm as Stabschef.
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Walther Wenck
Walther Wenck (September 18, 1900 – May 1, 1982) was the youngest general in the German Army during World War II. At the end of the war, he commanded the German Twelfth Army. Wenck ordered his army to surrender to forces of the United States in order to avoid capture by the Soviets. Before surrendering, Wenck played an important, if unsuccessful, part in the Battle of Berlin. He was known during the war as "The Boy General".
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Wilhelm Bittrich
Wilhelm Bittrich (February 26, 1894 – April 19, 1979) was an SS-Obergruppenführer and Waffen-SS General during World War II.
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Wilhelm Canaris
Wilhelm Franz Canaris (1 January 1887 – 9 April 1945) was a German admiral, head of the Abwehr, the German military intelligence service, from 1935 to 1944 and member of the German Resistance.
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Wilhelm Harster
Wilhelm Harster (b 21 July 1904 Kelheim, Bavaria, Germany died 25 December 1991) was a SS and Police Leader. He was twice convicted of war crimes, by the Dutch and later by West Germany. He had been employed by the government of Bavaria as a civil servant and was let go with a full pension after a public outcry.
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Wilhelm Keitel
Wilhelm Bodewin Gustav Keitel (22 September 1882 – 16 October 1946) was a German field marshal (Generalfeldmarschall). As head of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (Supreme Command of the Armed Forces) and de facto war minister, he was one of Germany's most senior military leaders during World War II. At the Allied court at Nuremberg he was tried, sentenced to death and hanged as a major war criminal.
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Wilhelm List
Sigmund Wilhelm Walther List (May 14, 1880 – August 17, 1971), was a German field marshal during World War II, and at the start of the war was based in Slovakia in command of the Fourteenth Army.
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Wilhelm Stuckart
Wilhelm Stuckart (November 16, 1902 – November 15, 1953) was a Nazi Party lawyer and official, a state secretary in the German Interior Ministry and later, a convicted war criminal.
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World War I
World War I was a military conflict centered on Europe that began in the summer of 1914. The fighting ended in late 1918. This conflict involved all of the world's great powers, assembled in two opposing alliances: the Allies (centred around the Triple Entente) and the Central Powers. More than 70 million military personnel, including 60 million Europeans, were mobilized in one of the largest wars in history. More than 9 million combatants were killed, due largely to great technological advances in firepower without corresponding ones in mobility. It was the second deadliest conflict in history.
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Beer Hall Putsch
The Beer Hall Putsch (also known as the Munich Putsch, but in German referred to as the Hitlerputsch or the Hitler-Ludendorff-Putsch) was a failed attempt at revolution that occurred between the evening of 8 November and the early afternoon of 9 November 1923, when Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler, Generalquartiermeister Erich Ludendorff, and other heads of the Kampfbund unsuccessfully tried to seize power in Munich, Bavaria, and Germany. Putsch is the German word for a military coup d'état.
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Germany
Germany (), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (, ), is a country in Western Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands. The territory of Germany covers 357.021 km2 and is influenced by a temperate seasonal climate. With 81.8 million inhabitants, it is the most populous member state of the European Union, and home to the third-largest number of international migrants worldwide.
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Schutzstaffel
The Schutzstaffel (, Protection Squadron), abbreviated SS—or with stylized "Armanen" Sig runes —was a major Nazi organization under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party. Built upon the Nazi ideology, the SS, under Heinrich Himmler's command, was responsible for many of the crimes against humanity perpetrated by the Nazis during World War II, and most of the particularly egregious ones.
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Sturmabteilung
The Sturmabteilung (), Storm Division or Battalion, abbreviated SA and usually translated as stormtroop(er)s, functioned as a paramilitary organization of the Nazi Party. It played a key role in Adolf Hitler's rise to power in the 1920s and 1930s.
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Thorensberg
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Weimar Germany
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- Anti-slavic
- Arthur Greiser
- Arthur Liebehenschel
- BANGLAH
- Battle of Annaberg
- Beer Hall Putsch
- Beppo Römer
- Bernhard von Hülsen
- Bolko von Richthofen
- Bruno Loerzer
- Communist
- Curt von Gottberg
- Emanuel Schäfer
- Erich Koch
- Erich Ludendorff
- Ernst Kantorowicz
- Ernst Röhm
- Ernst von Salomon
- ethnic cleansing
- Felix Steiner
- Ferdinand von Schill
- Franz Hayler
- Franz Ritter von Epp
- Franz Seldte
- Free Corps Denmark
- Freikorps Oberland
- Friedrich Friesen
- Friedrich Jeckeln
- Fritz Freitag
- Fritz von Scholz
- Georg Lindemann
- Gerhard Roßbach
- Germans
- Germany
- Gottlob Berger
- Gregor Strasser
- guerrilla
- Gustav Noske
- Günther Pancke
- Hanns Albin Rauter
- Hans Hinkel
- Hans Kammler
- Hans-Adolf Prützmann
- Heinrich Himmler
- Heinrich Kreipe
- Heinz Pernet
- Hermann Ehrhardt
- Hilmar Wäckerle
- Hugo Sperrle
- Joachim Neugroschel
- Johann Rattenhuber
- Josef Dietrich
- Julian Scherner
- Julius Schreck
- Kapp Putsch
- Karl Diebitsch
- Karl Gebhardt
- Karl Höfer
- Karl Liebknecht
- Karl von Eberstein
- Karl von Oberkamp
- Karl Wolff
- Kurt Daluege
- Latvian Army
- Ludwig Maercker
- Lützow Free Corps
- Martin Bormann
- Marxist
- Max Hirschberg
- Maximilian von Herff
- military
- Munich
- Napoleonic Wars
- Nazi Party
- Organisation Consul
- Oskar Dirlewanger
- Oswald Pohl
- Otto Strasser
- Otto Teetzmann
- paramilitary
- Perlach
- Peter von Heydebreck
- racism
- Red Baron
- Reichsführer-SS
- Reinhard Heydrich
- Richard Glücks
- Richard Hildebrandt
- Rosa Luxemburg
- Rudolf Hoess
- Rudolf Höß
- Rudolph Berthold
- Rudolph Hoess
- Schutzstaffel
- Seven Years' War
- Silesian Uprisings
- Spartacist League
- Sturmabteilung
- Thorensberg
- Viktor Lutze
- Walter Stennes
- Walther Wenck
- Weimar Germany
- Werner Schrader
- Wilhelm Bittrich
- Wilhelm Canaris
- Wilhelm Harster
- Wilhelm Keitel
- Wilhelm List
- Wilhelm Stuckart
- World War I
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Freikorps Wie die Wikinger
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- Duration: 3:20
- Published: 24 Aug 2009
- Uploaded: 28 Feb 2012
- Author: hit17034back2
Freikorps Für immer 20
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- Duration: 4:15
- Published: 13 Feb 2009
- Uploaded: 18 Feb 2012
- Author: Netscher81
The Freikorps, oh Deutschland hoch in Ehren.
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- Duration: 3:50
- Published: 15 Apr 2009
- Uploaded: 29 Feb 2012
- Author: colonialwarrier
A collection of rare images from German & Austrian Freikorps in the civil wars 1919 - 1923.
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Freikorps song - So ziehn wir unter fremder Fahne
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- Duration: 2:35
- Published: 13 May 2010
- Uploaded: 27 Feb 2012
- Author: Prometheusfunken
So ziehn wir unter fremder Fahne ins weite, weite Land daher, wir kämpfen unter Russenfahnen, wir sind die Deutsche Legion. Wir haben hinter uns gelassen, was andern dünket wert und gut. Wir können lieben - und auch hassen aus eignem Stolz und eignem Mut. Das Vaterland hat uns verstoßen, wir stehn in Feind's Gewalt und Macht, wir sind getrennt von seinen Losen und ziehn in unbekannte Schlacht. Drum, Brüder, schließet dicht die Reihen, und hat die Heimat uns verbannt, wir Baltikumer sind die Freien, wenn Deutschland wankt, wir halten stand! Wir sind die "Eisernen Soldaten" und stehn in Ost in Waff' und Wehr, wir halten hoch drum unsre Taten, das alte Deutschland und sein Heer.
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Der Fangschuß Freikorps VS Bolsheviki
COUP DE GRÂCE/Der Fangschuss Eng sub part1↓ www.youtube.com とどめの一撃 １↓ www.youtube.com English sub Deutsch Nagant M91/30 1910 machine gun
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Freikorps - Ein bißchen Spass
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- Duration: 3:12
- Published: 03 Dec 2010
- Uploaded: 31 Jan 2012
- Author: anne30101979
DIE WAFFEN-SS BRITISCHES FREIKORPS / THE BRITISH FREE CORPS
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- Duration: 2:13
- Published: 10 May 2009
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- Author: WaffenSS397
THIS VIDEO CONTAINS MANY RARE AND HISTORICAL PICTURES OF THE WAFFEN-SS BRITISCHES FREIKORPS (BRITISH FREE CORPS)
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Freikorps - Land meiner Väter.wmv
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- Duration: 4:47
- Published: 07 Jan 2012
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- Author: bruno24911
German Freikorps Martyr Albert Leo Schlageter
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- Duration: 2:48
- Published: 26 Apr 2011
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- Author: HourOfDecision777
Hanns Johst, the Nazi playwright, wrote Schlageter (1933), a heroic drama about his life. "Several important military ventures were also named for him, including the Jagdgeschwader 26 Schlageter fighter-wing of the Luftwaffe, and the naval vessel Albert Leo Schlageter. His name was also given as a title to two SA groups, the SA-Standarte 39 Schlageter at Düsseldorf and SA-Standarte 142 Albert Leo Schlageter at Lörrach. An army barracks on the south side of Freiburg was also named after him; after World War II, the site of this barracks was occupied by the French army and renamed Quartier Vauban after the French military architect. (When the French left in the 1990s, the area became the site of the eco-friendly suburb of Vauban." "Albert Leo Schlageter (12 August 1894 — 26 May 1923) was a member of the German Freikorps. His activities sabotaging French occupying troops after World War I led to his arrest and eventual execution by French forces. His death created an image of martyrdom around him, which was cultivated by German nationalist groups, in particular the Nazi Party. During the Third Reich he was widely commemorated as a national hero." Hitler refers to him in Mein Kampf. After the war, the main Schlageter memorial was destroyed by occupying Allied forces as part of the "denazification process."
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Freikorps - Schwarz, weiss, rot.flv
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- Duration: 4:03
- Published: 29 Nov 2008
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- Author: auslanderraus
Nationalist musik
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Freikorps Roßbach - So ziehn wir unter fremder Fahne
Hierbei handelt es sich bei diesen gezeigten Freikorps um die "Freiwillige-Maschinengewehr-Grenzschutz-Kompanie Roßbach, bekannt als "Eiserne Division"! Sie wurden 1919 im Baltikum eingesetzt, um die westrussische Befreiungsarmee, und die baltische Landeswehr, im Kampf gegen lettisch-russische Bolschewisten zu unterstützen. Urheberrecht: Prometheusfunken Vide
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Lützower Freikorps Völkerschlacht bei Leipzig 2008
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Hunting Season 2nd Freikorps Generation.
Hunting Season
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Malifaux Miniatures - Freikorps Box Set
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- Duration: 9:50
- Published: 25 May 2011
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- Author: TylersTerrain
Tell me what you think! AWESOME MINIS. Fun game.
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FREIKORPS - Schlageter Museum Berlin Film 1939
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- Published: 11 Sep 2011
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- Author: heimatschutz
Alter Filmausschnitt aus einer Dokumentation über das Berliner Schlageter-Museum von 1939. Gezeigt werden folgende Exponate: Urkunde für den Freikorps-Kämpfer (rechts); Dankesurkunde der Stadt München von 1919; Stahlhelm M16; Feldjacke eines preußischen Leutnants mit folgenden Auszeichnungen und Effekten: Kragenspiegel in Form von Elchschaufeln (Ostpreußisches Freikorps/Baltikum); ORDEN DER DEUTSCH RUSSISCHEN WESTARMEE, sog. AWALOFF KREUZ in der russichen Trageform an der Schulter (Abzeichen der Freiwilligen Westarmee des Fürst Awaloff-Bermondt. Brustkreuz, Bronze versilbert und schwarz emailliert); Band zum Eisernen Kreuz II. Klasse; Eisernes Kreuz I. Klasse; Baltenkreuz; Verwundeten-Abzeichen in silber (durchbrochene Form); Schlesischer Adler; Kampfwagen-Erinnerungsabzeichen, Ärmelband "KAMPFWAGEN" mit Totenkopf-Abzeichen der frühen deutschen Tank-Besatzungen Garde-Kavallerie-Schützen-Division Garde-Landesschützen-Korps von Neufville Marine-Brigade von Loewenfeld Marine-Brigade Ehrhardt Freikorps Oberland Freikorps Epp Freikorps Maercker Korps Lettow Detachement von Randow Eiserne Division Baltische Landeswehr Sturmabteilung Roßbach Spezialpolizei des Oberschlesischen Selbstschutz Sturmkompanie Koppe Organisation Consul Organisation Escherich (Orgesch) Organisation Kanzler Einwohnerwehr Detachment Brandenstein Freikorps Hülsen Freikorps Lauterbach Freikorps Lichtschlag Freikorps Lützow (Weimarer Republik) Freikorps von Petersdorff Regiment Potsdam Schwarze Reichswehr <b>...</b>
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Freikorps - Land meiner Väter
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- Duration: 2:56
- Published: 22 Oct 2010
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- Author: TheBPleader
Freikorps balladen
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Freikorps - Wieder mal Sommer
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- Duration: 2:22
- Published: 10 Jul 2010
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FREIKORPS "Mann Der Nadel"
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This song is from their best album "Land Meiner Vâter" released in 1991 on Rock'o'Rama records
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''Freikorps'' () are 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 paramilitary organizations that arose during the period of the Weimar Germany. Freikorps units fought both for and against the German state. They formed the vanguard of the Nazi movement.
Josef Adams, SS Officer
Ludolf von Alvensleben SS General
Kurt Benson, SS ''Oberführer'
Rudolph Berthold, World War I ace
Gottlob Berger,SS General
Karl-Heinz Bertling, SS ''Oberführer''
Wilhelm Bittrich SS General
Martin Bormann, NSDAP Politician/SS General
Wilhelm Canaris, Admiral
Friedrich Christiansen ''Luftwaffe'' General
Kurt Daluege, SS General
Karl Diebitsch SS ''Oberführer''
Josef Dietrich SS General
Oskar Dirlewanger, SS Colonel
Freiherr Karl von Eberstein SS General
Johannes Engel, SS General
Hermann Ehrhardt
Fritz Freitag, SS General
Karl Gebhardt, SS General
Richard Glücks, SS General
Arthur Greiser, SS General
Wilhelm Harster SS General
Franz Hayler SS General
Hans Hayn SA Leader
Reinhard Heydrich, SS General
Richard Hildebrandt SS General
Heinrich Himmler, ''Reichsführer-SS''
Hans Hinkel, SS Officer
Rudolf Hoess, ''Kommandant'' of Auschwitz
Karl Höfer, SS General
Bernhard von Hülsen, German General
Friedrich Gustav Jaeger
Dietrich von Jagow, SA General, German Diplomat
Friedrich Jeckeln SS General
Ernst Kantorowicz Medieval Historian
Hans Kammler, SS General
Wilhelm Keitel, Field Marshal
Matthias Kleinheisterkamp SS General
Waldemar Klingelhöfer SS officer
Erich Koch, NSDAP leader for East Prussia
Heinrich Kreipe, German General
Arthur Liebehenschel SS Officer
Georg Lindemann, German General
Wilhelm List, German General
Wilhelm Friedrich Loeper, SS General
Bruno Loerzer, Luftwaffe General
Viktor Lutze, SA Leader
Paul Moder, SS General
Thomas Müller (SS officer) SS Officer
Friedrich T. Noltenius World War I ace
Karl von Oberkamp, SS General
Günther Pancke SS General
Heinz Pernet SA ''Brigadeführer''
Oswald Pohl SS General
Hans-Adolf Prützmann, SS General
Hermann-Bernhard Ramcke Luftwaffe General
Johann Rattenhuber SS General
Hanns Albin Rauter SS Officer
Beppo Römer, KPD Member
Emanuel Schäfer SS Colonel
Julian Scherner SS Officer
Albert Leo Schlageter, anti-French Saboteur
Wilhelm Wilhelm Schmid, SA Leader
Karl Eberhard Schöngarth, SS General
Werner Schrader,German Army Officer
Julius Schreck, SS Leader
Franz Seldte SA Leader
Hugo Sperrle, ''Luftwaffe'' General
Felix Steiner, SS General
Walter Stennes, SA Leader
Franz Walter Stahlecker SS General
Walter Staudinger, SS General
Gregor Strasser, NSDAP Member
Otto Strasser, NSDAP Member
Wilhelm Stuckart, SS General
Friedrich Uebelhoer, SS General
Hans-Jürgen von Blumenthal German Army Officer
Franz Ritter von Epp, NSDAP ''Reichsstatthalter'' for Bavaria
Curt von Gottberg, SS general
Wolf-Heinrich Graf von Helldorf, SA member
Maximilian von Herff, SS General
Peter von Heydebreck, SA leader
Manfred Freiherr von Killinger
Bolko von Richthofen relative of the Red Baron
Ernst von Salomon, Organisation Consul member
Franz Pfeffer von Salomon, SA leader
Fritz von Scholz SS General
Otto Teetzmann SS Oberführer
Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer SS Doctor
Hilmar Wäckerle SS officer
Walther Wenck, German Army General
Karl Wolff, SS General
Freikorps Oberland
*Kurt Benson
Volunteer Division of Horse Guards (Garde-Kavallerie-Schützendivision)
murdered Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, Jan 15, 1919
led by Captain Pabst
had Reinhard Heydrich as a member
*founded by Ludwig Maercker
Freikorps Roßbach (Rossbach)
*founded by Gerhard Roßbach
rescued the Iron Division after an extremely long march across Eastern Europe.
*had Rudolph Hoess as a member.
Marinebrigade Ehrhardt (The Second Naval Brigade)
participated in the Kapp Putsch of 1920
disbanded members eventually formed the Organisation Consul, which performed hundreds of political assassinations
Iron Division (Eiserne Division, related to Eiserne Brigade)
*Fought in the Baltic.
Got trapped in Thorensberg by the Latvian Army. Was rescued by the Rossbach Freikorps.
Sudetendeutsches Freikorps
* Formed by Czech German nationalists with Nazi sympathies which operated from 1938 to 1939
* Part of Hitler's successful effort to absorb Czechoslovakia into the Third Reich
Freikorps in the Baltic
Battle of Annaberg May 1921
Free Corps Denmark
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Hoess, Rudolf. Constantine Fitzgibbon, and Primo Levi. ''Commandant of Auschwitz: The Autobiography of Rudolf Hoess'', Sterling Publishing Co., 2000. Translated by Constantine Fitzgibbon, Joachim Neugroschel. ISBN 1-84212-024-7, 9781842120248
Morris, Douglas G. ''Justice Imperiled: The Anti-Nazi Lawyer Max Hirschberg in Weimar Germany'', 2005, University of Michigan Press, ISBN 0-472-11476-X
Mueller, Michael. ''Canaris'', Naval Institute Press, 2007
Read, Anthony. ''The Devil's Disciples: Hitler's Inner Circle'', W. W. Norton & Company, 2004. ISBN 0-393-04800-4, 9780393048001
Waite, Robert G L. ''Vanguard of Nazism'', 1969, W W Norton & Co
Axis History Factbook; Freikorps section – By Marcus Wendel and contributors; site also contains an apolitical forum
Freikorps Master list on Axis History Forum {reference only}
First Freikorps
The first ''Freikorps'' were recruited by Frederick II of Prussia in the 18th century during the Seven Years' War. The ''Freikorps'' were regarded as unreliable by regular armies, so they were mainly used as sentries and for minor duties.
During the Napoleonic Wars, ''Freikorps'' were formed for the purpose of shaking off French rule in Germany. Those led by Ferdinand von Schill were decimated in the Battle of Stralsund (1809), many of their members killed in battle or executed at Napoleon's command in the aftermath. Later, Ludwig Adolf Wilhelm von Lützow, a survivor of Schill's ''Freikorps'', formed the Lützow Free Corps which took part in the German War of Liberation. The anti-Napoleonic ''Freikorps'' often operated behind French lines, as a kind of commando or guerrilla force.
Throughout the 19th Century, these anti-Napoleonic ''Freikorps'' were greatly praised and glorified by German Nationalists, and a heroic myth built up around their exploits. It was this myth which was invoked, in considerably different circumstances, the aftermath of Germany's defeat in World War I.
Post-World War I
The meaning of the word "''Freikorps''" changed over time. After 1918, the term was used for the paramilitary organizations that sprang up around Germany as soldiers returned in defeat from World War I. They were the key Weimar paramilitary groups active during that time. Many German veterans felt disconnected from civilian life, and joined a ''Freikorps'' in search of stability within a military structure. Others, angry at their sudden, apparently inexplicable defeat, joined up in an effort to put down Communist uprisings or exact some form of revenge (see ''Dolchstoßlegende''). They received considerable support from Minister of Defense Gustav Noske, a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, who used them to crush the German Revolution of 1918–1919 and the Marxist Spartacist League and arrest Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg, who were killed on 15 January 1919. They were also used to defeat the Bavarian Soviet Republic in May 1919.
On 5 May 1919, 12 workers (most of them members of the Social Democratic Party, SPD) were arrested and killed by members of ''Freikorps'' Lützow in Perlach near Munich based on a tip from a local cleric saying they were communists. A memorial on Pfanzeltplatz in Munich today commemorates the incident.
''Freikorps'' also fought in the Baltic, Silesia, and Prussia after the end of World War I, sometimes with significant success. They raped and murdered with abandon, and Anti-slavic racism was present, although the ethnic cleansing ideology and anti-Semitism that would be expressed in later years was not developed yet.
Though officially "disbanded" in 1920, many ''Freikorps'' attempted, unsuccessfully, to overthrow the government in the Kapp Putsch in March 1920. Their attack was halted when German citizens who were loyal to the state went on strike, cutting off many services, and making daily life so problematic that the Putsch was called off.
In 1920, Adolf Hitler had just begun his political career as the leader of the tiny and as-yet-unknown German Workers Party (soon renamed the National Socialist German Workers Party, NSDAP) in Munich. Numerous future members and leaders of the Nazi Party had served in the ''Freikorps'', including Ernst Röhm, future head of the Sturmabteilung, or SA, Heinrich Himmler, future head of the Schutzstaffel, or SS, and Rudolf Höß, the future ''Kommandant'' of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
Hermann Ehrhardt, founder and leader of Marinebrigade Ehrhardt, and his deputy Commander Eberhard Kautter, leaders of the Viking League, refused to help Hitler and Erich Ludendorff in their Beer Hall Putsch and conspired against them.
Relations with Hitler
''Freikorps'' leaders symbolically gave their old battle flags to Hitler's ''Sturmabteilung'' (SA) and ''Schutzstaffel'' (SS) on November 9, 1933 in a huge ceremony. Historian Robert Waite claims that Hitler had many problems with the ''Freikorps''. Many of the ''Freikorps'' had joined the SA, so when the Night of the Long Knives came, they were among those targeted for killing or arrest, including Ehrhardt and Röhm. He claims that in Hitler's "Röhm Purge" speech to the ''Reichstag'' on July 13, 1934, the third group of "pathological enemies of the state" that Hitler lists are, in fact, the ''Freikorps'' fighters. Hitler talks of the revolutionaries of 1918, who wanted permanent revolution, hated all authority, and were nihilistic.
Notable Freikorps members
Notable Freikorps units
Freikorps Maercker (Maercker's Volunteer Rifles, or Freiwillige Landesjägerkorps)
See also
References
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Albert Leo Schlageter (12 August 1894 — 26 May 1923) was a member of the German Freikorps. His activities sabotaging French occupying troops after World War I led to his arrest and eventual execution by French forces. His death created an image of martyrdom around him, which was cultivated by German nationalist groups, in particular the Nazi Party. During the Third Reich he was widely commemorated as a national hero.
German biography of Schlageter
German text of Schlageter Schauspiel
Life
Schlageter was born in Schönau im Schwarzwald to strict Catholic parents.After the outbreak of the First World War he became a voluntary emergency worker for the military. During the war he participated in several battles, notably Ypres (1915), the Somme (1916) and Verdun, earning the Iron Cross both first and second class. Following his promotion to second lieutenant he took part in the Third Battle of Ypres (1917). After the war, and his dismissal from the greatly reduced army, Schlageter described himself as a student of political sciences; but he studied the subject at the most for one year. About this time he became a member of a right-wing Catholic student group. Soon he also joined the Freikorps and took part in the Kapp Putsch and other battles between military and communist factions that were convulsing Germany. In 1922 his Freikorps unit in Upper Silesia merged with the Nazi Party. During the occupation of the Ruhr in 1923, he led an illegal "combat patrol" that tried to resist the French occupying forces by means of sabotage. A number of trains were derailed in order to disrupt supplies to the occupiers. On 7 April 1923 Schlageter was betrayed, possibly from within his own ranks, and was arrested (on 8 April) by the French. Tried by court-martial on 7 May 1923, he was condemned to death. On the morning of 26 May he was executed on the Golzheimer heath near Düsseldorf.
On 8 May Schlageter had written to his parents: "from 1914 until today I have sacrificed my whole strength to work for my German homeland, from love and pure loyalty. Where it was suffering, it drew me, in order to help… I was no gang leader, but in quiet labour I sought to help my fatherland. I did not commit any common crime or murder." The truth of this statement may be doubted, since he is thought to have been involved in assassinations of presumed "informers".
Almost immediately after Schlageter's death, Rudolf Höss assassinated his alleged betrayer, Walther Kadow. He was assisted by Martin Bormann. Höss was sentenced to ten years but only served four; Bormann received a one-year sentence.
Heroic symbol to Nazism
After his execution he became a hero to some sections of the German population. Immediately after his death a Schlageter Memorial Society was formed, which agitated for the creation of a monument to honour him. The German Communist Party sought to debunk the emerging mythology of Schlageter by circulating a speech by Karl Radek portraying him as an honourable but misguided figure. It was the Nazi party who most fully exploited the Schlageter story. Hitler refers to him in ''Mein Kampf''. Rituals were constructed to commemorate his death, and in 1931 the Memorial Society succeeded in getting a monument erected near the site of his execution. This was a giant cross placed amid sunken stone rings. Other smaller memorials were also created. After 1933 Schlageter became one of the principal heroes of the Nazi regime. Hanns Johst, the Nazi playwright, wrote ''Schlageter'' (1933), a heroic drama about his life. It was dedicated to Hitler, and was performed on his first birthday in power as a theatrical manifesto of Nazism. The line "when I hear the word culture, I reach for my gun", often misattributed to Nazi leaders, derives from this play. The original line is slightly different: "Wenn ich Kultur höre ... entsichere ich meinen Browning," "Whenever I hear of culture... I release the safety-catch of my Browning!" (Act 1, Scene 1). It is spoken by another character in conversation with the young Schlageter.Several important military ventures were also named for him, including the Jagdgeschwader 26 Schlageter fighter-wing of the Luftwaffe, and the naval vessel ''Albert Leo Schlageter''. His name was also given as a title to two SA groups, the SA-Standarte 39 Schlageter at Düsseldorf and SA-Standarte 142 Albert Leo Schlageter at Lörrach. An army barracks on the south side of Freiburg was also named after him; after World War II, the site of this barracks was occupied by the French army and renamed Quartier Vauban after the French military architect. (When the French left in the 1990s, the area became the site of the eco-friendly suburb of Vauban.)
Schlageter also featured as a prominent character in British author Geoffrey Moss's 1933 novel ''I Face the Stars'', about the rise of Nazism.
After the war, the main Schlageter memorial was destroyed by occupying Allied forces as part of the denazification process.
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Hierbei handelt es sich bei diesen gezeigten Freikorps um die "Freiwillige-Maschinengewehr-Grenzschutz-Kompanie Roßbach, bekannt als "Eiserne Division"! Sie wurden 1919 im Baltikum eingesetzt, um die westrussisc...
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