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    state government fled to Bamberg and stayed there for almost two years before the Bavarian capital of Munich was retaken by Freikorps units (see Bavarian Soviet...
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    The Freikorps Oberland ("Highlands Free Corps"; also Bund Oberland or Kameradschaft Freikorps und Bund Oberland) was a voluntary paramilitary organization...
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    him the services of 20,000 men of the Freikorps under Lt. General Burghard von Oven [de]. Oven and the Freikorps, along with Hoffmann's loyalist elements...
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    Gregor Strasser (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
    the war, he and his brother became members of Franz Ritter von Epp's Freikorps. He joined the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in 1920 and quickly became an influential...
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    government had Munich occupied by Reichswehr troops and paramilitary Freikorps units, Hoffmann and his cabinet were able to return in May 1919. However...
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    the counterrevolutionaries was five formations: the Freikorps Reinhard, Freikorps Lützow, Freikorps Hülsen, Guards Cavalry Rifle Division and German Protection...
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    335 civilians were killed by Freikorps fighters, Munich's leaders wanted to maintain the capabilities of the Freikorps but without their drawbacks. They...
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    by the Freikorps to secure the city. After his arrest on 2 May, Gustav Landauer was humiliated, abused, and executed by firing squad by Freikorps soldiers...
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    him the services of 20,000 men of the Freikorps under Lt. General Burghard von Oven [de]. Oven and the Freikorps then took Dachau and surrounded Munich...
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    Otto Strasser (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
    twice wounded. He returned to Germany in 1919, where he served in the Freikorps that in May 1919 put down the Bavarian Soviet Republic, which was organized...
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