Landsturm

General ahead in a motor car, leaving behind only a Colonel with soldiers to protect railroad, (landsturm battalion "neuss.") ❋ Various (N/A)

It was then, or perhaps at a somewhat later period, divided into three sections, the regular army, [141] the militia, and the landsturm, the last-named being without pay and only called out in times of great danger, and it consisted mainly of the servants and slaves of the boyards. ❋ James Samuelson (N/A)

At Linz, the landsturm were mustered to fire a volley, as the victory of ❋ Richard Boyle Bernard (N/A)

I think there must have been a period quite recently when the German Government tried to imbue the people with a greater degree of frightfulness, because all of us in visiting camps, etc. observed that the landsturm men or older soldiers were much more merciful than the younger ones. ❋ Gerard, James W (1917)

German Government tried to imbue the people with a greater degree of frightfulness, because all of us in visiting camps, etc. observed that the _landsturm_ men or older soldiers were much more merciful than the younger ones. ❋ Unknown (1909)

"Are you officers, eh?" the head-watchman, a stocky corporal of the landsturm, with grey on his temples, growled and blustered good - naturedly. ❋ Andreas Latzko (1909)

She had seen the landsturm officer brought to the hospital strapped fast to the stretcher, because his sobbing wrenched and tore his body so that the bearers could not control him otherwise. ❋ Andreas Latzko (1909)

He was casting about for an evasive reply when an unintelligible wheezing exclamation drew all eyes to the corner in which the landsturm officer and his wife were sitting. ❋ Andreas Latzko (1909)

The old landsturm corporal was standing beside the physician with four sentries ready to intervene at a moment's notice. ❋ Andreas Latzko (1909)

In the war he was a lieutenant of the landsturm, in civil life a well-known composer. ❋ Andreas Latzko (1909)

It seemed frivolous, almost impertinent, and the landsturm officer, leaning in the open window beside me in the passageway, thinking perhaps of his own home across the Rhine, laughed and breathed a deep-chested ❋ Arthur Ruhl (1905)