The German Knight's Cross - Forgotten Freikorps Award

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We all know the WW2 Knight's Cross, but what about the German Knight's Cross? In fact, it is an older medal from the Weimar Republic period, when private German armies called 'Freikorps' fought in 1919 to stop a Soviet advance into the Baltic States.

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