• Division (previously Grenzschutz Abschnittskommando 15; later 395th Infantry Division) 526th Infantry Division (previously Grenzschutz Abschnittskommando...
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    young to serve in World War I, in 1919 he enrolled in the Freikorps "Grenzschutz Ost"; he served as a sergeant major in the German armed forces (Reichswehr)...
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    (Upper) Silesia.[citation needed] On 15 August 1919, German border guards (Grenzschutz) massacred ten Silesian civilians in a labour dispute at the Mysłowice...
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    Early that year, Schleicher had started a policy of "frontier defense" (Grenzschutz) under which the Reichswehr would stockpile arms in secret depots and...
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  • Brigade Netze Associated border guards Grenzschutz-Abschnittskommando 1 Grenzschutz-Abschnittskommando 2 Grenzschutz-Abschnittskommando 12 Army reserves...
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    organization in the Weimar Republic. Zelewski enrolled with the border guards (Grenzschutz) the same year. Zelewski legally added "von dem Bach" to his family name...
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    Maltzan, was part of the German Resistance. After the war, he joined the Grenzschutz Ost Freikorps as a General Staff officer, serving in Silesia and Pomerania...
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    Silesian refugees, and took 40 people hostage. Moreoever, soldiers of the Grenzschutz Ost executed 5 insurgents in Moschczenitz in retaliation for the battle...
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    senior members in Franz Ritter von Epp's Bayerisches Freikorps für den Grenzschutz Ost ("Bavarian Free Corps for Border Patrol East"), formed in Ohrdruf...
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    Potsdam of the Volunteer Border Protection Unit East and Upper East (Grenzschutz Ost/Oberost) from 18 January 1919. He retired on 20 September 1919 with...
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