LC control no. | no2004049944 |
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Corporate name heading | Schwarze Reichswehr |
Variant(s) | Black Reichswehr |
Found in | Schwarze Reichswehr und Fememorde, 2004 Encyclopedia of the Third Reich, c1991 (Black Reichswehr (Schwarze Reichswehr), term for the augmentation of the army 1919-1924 through evasion of the conditions of the Versailles Treaty. Its members (ca. 20,000 in 1923), most of them hostile to the Weimar Republic, became a threat to the state. They menaced internal peace with vehm murders. Disbanded in Aug. 1924, but never completely abandoned) Deutsche Bibliothek web catalog, 25 May 2004 (Normdaten: Schwarze Reichswehr) |