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    Franz Ritter von Epp (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
    German Empire, Epp was a commanding officer in the Freikorps and the Reichswehr. His unit, the Freikorps Epp, was responsible for numerous massacres during...
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    Albert Leo Schlageter (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
    March 1919, he joined the Baden Freikorps and fought against the Bolsheviks as a part of Walter von Medem's Baltic Freikorps during the capture of Riga in...
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    1905 in Munich; died 2 May 1945). On 3 November 1902 the family moved to Passau, where Joseph Gebhard Himmler taught Greek and Latin at the Königlich humanistisches...
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    (2013). Boj o pohraničí : Sudetoněmecký Freikorps v roce 1938 [Conflict in Borderlands: Sudetendeutsches Freikorps in 1938] (in Czech). Prague: Nakladatelství...
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    Heinrich Deubel (category People from Passau (district))
    war camp. Right-wing by inclination, Deubel had been involved with the Freikorps and other rightist and anti-Semitic groups from an early age. He became...
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    Hermann Esser (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
    Foot Artillery Regiment. After demobilization, he joined the Swabian Freikorps, and in May 1919 took part in the suppression of the Munich Soviet Republic...
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  • Karl Brunner (SS general) (category People from Passau)
    Leaving the Bavarian Army with the rank of lieutenant, Brunner joined the Freikorps, a right-wing paramilitary militia, in 1919 and was part of the Marine-Brigade...
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    1882) and Angela (born 1883). When Hitler was three, the family moved to Passau, Germany. There he acquired the distinctive lower Bavarian dialect, rather...
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    Viktor Lutze (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
    reorganise the SA there. In September 1938, SA Stabschef Lutze travelled to Passau to welcome Nazis who had returned from the Reichsparteitag in Nuremberg...
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  • later he went into Germany via Schärding, and by railway via Regensburg and Passau back to Vienna. In January 1920 the Czechoslovak army, breaking prior agreements...
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