The Feldgendarmerie (, German: Feldjäger) were the uniformed military police units of the armies of the German Empire (including the Wehrmacht) from 1810 in Saxony until the conclusion of World War II.
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| - The Feldgendarmerie (, German: Feldjäger) were the uniformed military police units of the armies of the German Empire (including the Wehrmacht) from 1810 in Saxony until the conclusion of World War II.
- After Germany's defeat in the First World War, the Feldgendarmerie was disbanded, with the small-scale army which the Weimar Republic was allowed to posses under the Treaty of Versailles having no such body. After the rise of the Nazis and the establishment of the Wehrmacht, the Feldgendarmerie was re-established. Also in Nazi Germany its primary duty was to act as a military police empowered toward the Wehrmacht's own soldiers. As such, it was notorious in the latter stages of World War II for harsh treatment of deserters, keeping them in prison camps and sometimes executing them out of hand.
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| - Apprehending deserters, border control and anti-partisan duties.
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| - Command pennant for a Feldgendarmerie company during World War II.
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- 1933(xsd:integer)
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| - The Feldgendarmerie (, German: Feldjäger) were the uniformed military police units of the armies of the German Empire (including the Wehrmacht) from 1810 in Saxony until the conclusion of World War II.
- After Germany's defeat in the First World War, the Feldgendarmerie was disbanded, with the small-scale army which the Weimar Republic was allowed to posses under the Treaty of Versailles having no such body. After the rise of the Nazis and the establishment of the Wehrmacht, the Feldgendarmerie was re-established. Also in Nazi Germany its primary duty was to act as a military police empowered toward the Wehrmacht's own soldiers. As such, it was notorious in the latter stages of World War II for harsh treatment of deserters, keeping them in prison camps and sometimes executing them out of hand. After the invasion of the Soviet Union, the Feldgendarmerie was known to have ruthlessly rooted out partisans and resistance fighters within occupied civilian populations. The Feldgendarmerie carried out this function as the German military moved into occupied territories, and was then replaced by the Gestapo and the SS while the Feldgendarmerie advanced further forward. The extent of Feldgendarmerie involvement in WWII war crimes is one of the least investigated areas in the historical research of the Nazi state apparatus. After the fall of Nazi Germany, the Feldgendarmerie was dissolved permanently. After West Germany formed its own army in the 1950s, it took care to give a new name (Bundeswehr) to the military police to emphasize that there was no continuity of any kind between it and the Feldgendarmerie.
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