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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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    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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    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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  • 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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    After violent suppression by elements of the German Army and notably the Freikorps, the Bavarian Soviet Republic fell in May 1919. The Bamberg Constitution...
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    for the Nazi cause. His first attempt was with Albert Leo Schlageter, a Freikorps member and saboteur, who was caught attempting to blow up a train in the...
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  • Hans Schemm (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
    returned to his teaching job in Neufang. In 1919 he was a member of the Freikorps Bayreuth, which took part in the suppression of the short-lived Bavarian...
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    Emil Leeb (category People from Passau)
    with the 4th Bavarian Field Artillery Regiment, the Detachment Hierl (Freikorps), the 24th Reichswehr Brigade, Niederwerfung des Spartacus Aufstandes...
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    many war veterans from a middle-class background, he joined with the Freikorps in opposition to the Munich Soviet Republic but in early 1919, he left...
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    Hans Frank (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
    he was a member of the Thule Völkisch society. He served also in the Freikorps under Franz Ritter von Epp's command, taking part in the crackdown of...
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    post. After the Bavarian Soviet Republic was defeated and toppled by Freikorps and Reichswehr troops, the Nuncio focused on, according to Lehnert, "alleviating...
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    Ernst Kaltenbrunner (category 20th-century Freikorps personnel)
    trips to Bavaria. He would hide on a train and on a ship that travelled to Passau, then return with money and orders for Austrian comrades. In 1937 Kaltenbrunner...
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    could make the ten-minute walk to the mausoleum of the members of the Freikorps who had fallen there in 1921 at the Battle of Annaberg and to the Thingspiel...
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    with the Treaty of Versailles. This included the dissolution of many Freikorps – units made up of volunteers. In an attempt at a coup d'état in March...
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    Rosmus-Wenninger, Anja. Widerstand und Verfolgung: Am Beispiel Passaus, 1933–1939. Passau: Andreas-Haller Verlag, 1983. Rothfels, Hans. The German Opposition...
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  • After violent suppression by elements of the German Army and notably the Freikorps, the Bavarian Socialist Republic fell on 3 May 1919. The Bamberg Constitution...
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