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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 7th 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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  • It had been one of the original infantry divisions of the Reichswehr. The staff of the 1st Infantry Division was initially assembled under the cover name...
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    The 29th Infantry Division was a unit of the German army created in the fall of 1936. It was based on the old Reichswehr 15th Infantry Regiment and drew...
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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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    The 2nd Infantry Division of Nazi Germany's Army was created from components of the Reichswehr's old 2nd Division in 1934, at first under the cover name...
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    opportunity to be accepted into the Reichswehr or to find jobs in industry. After demobilisation, many members of the division remained together as agricultural...
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    Josef Gangl (category Reichswehr personnel)
    joined the Reichswehr, which was then limited to 100,000 men, in order to begin a career as a professional soldier in Artillery Regiment 7 in Nuremberg...
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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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    founded as a cover formation during the Reichswehr era. It was active from 1934 to 1945. The 11th Infantry Division was initially known by the cover name...
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