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    Reichswehr (lit. 'Reich Defence') was the official name of the German armed forces during the Weimar Republic and the first years of the Third Reich. After...
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  • The Black Reichswehr (German: Schwarze Reichswehr) was the unofficial name for the extra-legal paramilitary formation that was secretly a part of the...
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    The Ministry of the Reichswehr (German: Reichswehrministerium) was the defence ministry of the Weimar Republic and the early Third Reich. The 1919 Weimar...
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    Kurt von Schleicher (category Ministers of the Reichswehr)
    player in the Reichswehr's efforts to avoid the restrictions of the Treaty of Versailles, Schleicher rose to power as head of the Reichswehr's Armed Forces...
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    After the war, he continued his military career as a captain in the Reichswehr and provided assistance to Franz Ritter von Epp's Freikorps. In 1919,...
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    after the collapse of the Kapp Putsch, the German government sent in the Reichswehr (the German army) and right-wing Freikorps to crush the ongoing insurgency...
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  • military ranks of the Weimar Republic were the military ranks used by the Reichswehr. The Peacetime Army (German: Friedensheeres) continued to use the uniforms...
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    humanity. During the Weimar era, the oath of allegiance, sworn by the Reichswehr, required soldiers to swear loyalty to the Reich Constitution and its...
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    Hans von Seeckt (category Colonel generals of the Reichswehr)
    During the years of the Weimar Republic he was chief of staff for the Reichswehr from 1919 to 1920 and commander in chief of the German Army from 1920...
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    the Ruhr uprising. In 1921 the Reichswehr organized the Black Reichswehr, a secret reserve networked within the Reichswehr and organised as labour battalions...
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    (intelligence agent) of an Aufklärungskommando (reconnaissance unit) of the Reichswehr, assigned to influence other soldiers and to infiltrate the German Workers'...
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    newly gained political power. He also wanted to appease leaders of the Reichswehr, the German military, who feared and despised the SA as a potential rival...
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  • Paul Schulz (category Black Reichswehr personnel)
    officer and Nazi Party official perhaps best known as a leader of the Black Reichswehr in the 1920s. Schulz entered non-commissioned officers' school in Potsdam...
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  • Wehrmacht and Heer which were used in the years between 1933 and 1945 by the Reichswehr, Wehrmacht, and Heer. List of German standards at the Moscow Victory Parade...
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    force). The designation "Wehrmacht" replaced the previously used term Reichswehr and was the manifestation of the Nazi regime's efforts to rearm Germany...
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    autocratic government in its place. It was supported by parts of the Reichswehr, as well as nationalist and monarchist factions. Although the legitimate...
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    Fedor von Bock (category Black Reichswehr personnel)
    the Black Reichswehr. It consisted of "labour battalions" (Arbeitskommandos), purportedly made up of civilian volunteers attached to Reichswehr units, but...
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  • the Treaty of Versailles. Constructed in secret, they were tested by Reichswehr units at the Kama tank school in the Soviet Union. They were used for...
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  • The 4th Division was a unit of the Reichswehr. In the Order of 31 July 1920 for the Reduction of the Army (to comply with the upper limits on the size...
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  • The 6th Division was a unit of the Reichswehr. In the Order of 31 July 1920 for the Reduction of the Army (to comply with the upper limits on the size...
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    German Navy (Kaiserliche Marine) offices, it served the Ministry of the Reichswehr after World War I. Significantly enlarged under Nazi rule, it was used...
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    the Ulm Reichswehr trial, in which he and two other Reichswehr officers were tried for attempting to form a Nazi cell within the Reichswehr in Ulm. The...
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    equipped with mobile radios were operating on the front line. In the Reichswehr from 1921 each division had a communications unit with two companies....
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  • attempt against the Weimar Republic by units of the paramilitary Black Reichswehr under Bruno Ernst Buchrucker. It was launched in response to nationalist...
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    The following is an incomplete list of German colonel generals. Generals later promoted to general field marshal (GFM) are not included. See also: ⇒ de:...
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    next crisis came in the autumn of 1926 when Reichswehr commander Seeckt, without consulting the Reichswehr minister, invited the eldest son of the ex-crown...
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    Kahr, Bavarian state police chief Colonel Hans Ritter von Seisser and Reichswehr General Otto von Lossow formed a ruling triumvirate. Hitler announced...
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  • Bruno Ernst Buchrucker (category Black Reichswehr personnel)
    Reichswehr, pp. 57ff. Sauer, Reichswehr, p. 58. Sauer, Reichswehr, pp. 61ff. Sauer, Reichswehr, p. 62. Nagel, Fememorde, p. 326. Sauer, Reichswehr, pp...
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  • left-wing state governments, and crushed the paramilitaries with the Reichswehr and police. The October events formed a part of the existential crisis...
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    Europe, where they demonstrated full autonomy and rejected orders from the Reichswehr and German government, left a negative impression with the state. By this...
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