Landsturm

German

Etymology

Land +‎ Sturm.

Proper noun

Landsturm m (genitive Landsturms or Landsturmes)

  1. (historical) Any of the final reserves of the armed forces in Prussia and later Germany, in Austria, or in Switzerland, generally made up of older people, sometimes constituted as a regular portion of the country's armed forces, sometimes irregular.

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