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    dissolution of the German Empire, Epp was a commanding officer in the Freikorps and the Reichswehr. His unit, the Freikorps Epp, was responsible for numerous...
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    largest Freikorps in Bavaria commanded by Colonel Franz Ritter von Epp. While they were met with little Communist resistance, the Freikorps acted with...
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    In May 1919 the Freikorps Oberland fought against the Bavarian Soviet Republic. Elements of the Freikorps, combined with Freikorps Epp became the Reichswehr...
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    other Freikorps awards were declared obsolete with World War I service thereafter recognized by a single award, known as the Honour Cross. Freikorps awards...
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  • Freikorps, then removed almost all of its members from the Reichswehr and limited Freikorps access to government funding and equipment. The Freikorps'...
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    Wilhelm Stuckart (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
    upbringing. Stuckart was active in the far right early on and joined the Freikorps von Epp in 1919 to resist the French occupation of the Ruhr. In 1922, he started...
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  • Albert Krebs (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
    the Gildenschaft (a Studentenverbindung umbrella group) and in the Freikorps von Epp and Oberland in 1919. In 1922, he received his doctorate and, in the...
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  • Weimar Republic. This is a partial list of the post-World War I Freikorps members. Hugo von Abercron, German aviation pioneer Wilhelm Albert, SS General...
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    unit headed by fellow-Bavarian Franz Ritter von Epp. Kraußer organized the first aerial unit of this Freikorps in Gotha. In 1920, Kraußer was accepted into...
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  • Hermann Höfle (SS general) (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
    "Großherzog Friedrich II. von Baden"; later he served as an observation pilot. After the war he was with the Freikorps von Epp and the Bund Reichskriegsflagge...
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