Freikorps Insignia

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Sleeve badge of light artillery detachment, Freikorps Gerth.......

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Sleeve badge....

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Button......

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Cap skull......

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And a variant.......

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Another variant......

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Variant again.......

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And a fuzzy photo of the Iron Division flag.......

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Many skull rings were also worn by the FK.......

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Some more are among this lot.......

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Even Bischoff's book on the Iron Division had the death's head on the cover......

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Just a few totenkopfs there Robin and people think the SS had the monopoly on it!!

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The SS were only copy-cats when it came to skulls. Here's a Brunswick busby from c.1900.

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Here's its Prussian cousin. I found this in a little shop in Berlin three months ago, and have been drooling over it ever since.

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This is a kettle-drum section from the lst Leibhusaren Regiment. There was only one kettle-drummer per regiment, so this thing is rare.

Edited May 11, 2005 by Robin Lumsden

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Here with lance pennons of the lst and 2nd Leibhusaren.....

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This stick-pin is in solid (well, 18ct) gold, and cased.......

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Even after 1945, the skull continued to be used. Here's a badge from the 1950s.

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In 1923, the Wehrwolf Bund also made the TK its own. It borrowed its name and the wolfsangel from Loens' book 'Der Wehrwolf'.

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Here's the armband, with the wolfsangel insignia.

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And a Wehrwolf man wearing the armband. These guys are often mistaken for Freikorps.

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The Wehrwolf Bund even had its own stamps.

Edited May 11, 2005 by Robin Lumsden

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And commemorative literature, produced after it was absorbed into the SA of the NSDAP.

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Here's an Iron Division man, with 'skull cap'......

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An LHR 1 man.......