Gendarmerie (Czechoslovakia)
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The Gendarmerie in the First Czechoslovak Republic was a paramilitary force responsible for law enforcement in rural areas, as well as anti-riot and counterinsurgency duties.
An Aero A.32 observation aircraft in the livery of the Gendarmerie air wing
Clash at Habersbirk
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The Clash at Habersbirk was the first armed confrontation between the Czechoslovak gendarmerie and the Sudeten Germans. It is sometimes marked as the first battle of the Second World War.
Gendarmerie (Czechoslovakia)
…By 1937, 31 such battalions had been established in border areas. On September 13, 1938, the Gendarmerie engaged the Sudetendeutsches Freikorps in the Clash at Habersbirk, during which gendarmes Jan Koukol, Antonín Křepeli, Vladimír Černý and Stanislav Roubal were killed. Soon after, eight gendarmes were killed in a…
Memorial to the fallen Czechoslovak gendarmes in Habartov