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Published: 30 January 2011 30 January 2011
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Last Updated: 07 April 2012 07 April 2012
The Freikorps Heydebreck saw action against the Poles in Oberschlesien, it was one of the units that captured Annaberg.
Commanders
Hans Peter von Heydebreck
Notable members
Reichstag deputy & SA-Gruppenführer Hans Peter von Heydebreck
(the ranks are the highest ranks reached in the Third Reich era)
Sources used
Nigel Jones - The birth of the Nazis: How the Freikorps blazed a trail for Hitler
Reference material on this unit
Peter von Heydebreck - Wir Wehrwölfe: Erinnerungen eines Freikorpsführers