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This is a list of "Free Corps" (German language: Freikorps), various military and/or paramilitary units raised from the civilian population.

Habsburg Monarchy[]

Prussia[]

World War II[]

  • British Free Corps (BFC; German language: Britisches Freikorps), in the Waffen-SS World War II
  • Sudetendeutsches Freikorps, was a paramilitary fifth-columnist organisation formed by Czech German nationalists with Nazi sympathies
  • Free Corps Denmark (1941–43), Danish volunteer free corps created by the Danish Nazi Party (DNSAP)

Other[]

  • Exercitiegenootschap, military organisation in the 18th century Netherlands
  • Schutterij, a voluntary city guard or citizen militia in the medieval and early modern Netherlands

Fictional[]

  • In Shannara series of novels written by Terry Brooks, the Free Corps is a unit of the Border Legion of Callahorn and was led by Stee Jans; it appeared in The Elfstones of Shannara, helping to defend the Ellcrys against the Demons.
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