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    Trümbach's Freikorps (Voluntaires de Prusse) (FI) Kleist's Freikorps (FII) Glasenapp's Free Dragoons (F III) Schony's Freikorps (F IV) Gschray's Freikorps (F...
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    thus it co-operated with the Supreme Command and the Freikorps. The brutal actions of the Freikorps during the various revolts estranged many left democrats...
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    Benno von Arent (category People from Görlitz)
    and SS. Arent was born Benno Georg Eduard Wilhelm Joachim von Arent in Görlitz on 19 July 1898, the son of a Prussian Lieutenant Colonel also named Benno...
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    Walther Wenck (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
    military school in Gross-Lichterfeld. Wenck joined a paramilitary group (Freikorps) in 1919 and then the Army (Reichswehr) of the Weimar Republic in 1920...
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    as the old age pensions. However, many German Army veterans joined the Freikorps (Free Corps), a paramilitary organization whose troops fought any pro-Polish...
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    Volunteers of the Sudeten German Free Corps (German: Sudetendeutsches Freikorps) receiving refreshments from the local population in the city of Eger/Cheb)...
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    Walter von Reichenau (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
    of the German Resistance. After the war, he joined the Grenzschutz Ost Freikorps as a General Staff officer, serving in Silesia and Pomerania. In 1919...
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  • Reinhart Koselleck (category People from Görlitz)
    Reinhart Koselleck Born (1923-04-23)23 April 1923 Görlitz, Lower Silesia, Germany Died 3 February 2006(2006-02-03) (aged 82) Bad Oeynhausen, North Rhine-Westphalia...
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    Wilhelm Keitel (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
    the Weimar Republic and played a part in organizing the paramilitary Freikorps units on the Polish border. In 1924, Keitel was transferred to the Ministry...
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    a key catchphrase for the German right wing. On 12 March 1920, 5,000 Freikorps troops under the command of Walther von Lüttwitz marched on the Chancellery...
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