Feldgendarmerie
The term Feldgendarmerie (; ) refers to military police units of the armies of the Kingdom of Saxony (from 1810), the German Empire and Nazi Germany up to the end of World War II in Europe.
Key facts
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- Feldgendarmerie
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- 200
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- Uniform of a Feldgendarm during World War II, including the distinctive gorget
- Military unit.type
- Military Police
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- Kettenhunde ()
- Military unit.disbanded
- Nominally 8 May 1945 Completely 1946
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- 100px
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- Regimental Patch
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- 100px
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- Command pennant for a Feldgendarmerie company during World War II.
via Wikipedia infobox
Article
12 sectionsContents
- Early history (1810–1918)
- Nazi Germany (1933–1945)
- World War II (1939–1945)
- Operations
- Organization
- Equipment
- Weapons
- Other military police troops
- Postwar reorganization
- See also
- References
- Further reading
The term Feldgendarmerie (; ) refers to military police units of the armies of the Kingdom of Saxony (from 1810), the German Empire and Nazi Germany up to the end of World War II in Europe.
== Early history (1810–1918) == From 1810 to 1812 Saxony, Württemberg, Prussia and Bavaria founded a rural police force based on the model of the Napoleonic French Gendarmerie.