List of defunct paramilitary organizations
List of defunct governmental paramilitary units (in alphabetical order)
Name | Region | Active between | Type | Notes |
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Barracked People's Police (KVP) | ![]() |
1948-1956 | gendarmerie | Formed by the Soviet Military Administration in Germany as the precursor to the National People's Army |
B-Gendarmerie | ![]() |
1949-1954 | gendarmerie | Formed as the precursor to the Austrian Armed Forces |
Bundesgrenzschutz | ![]() |
1951-2005 | border guard | Responsible for border patrol and transport security. Also precursor to the Bundeswehr |
Felix Dzerzhinsky Guards Regiment | ![]() |
1954-1990 | light infantry | Paramilitary unit of the East German secret service Stasi. Responsible for the security of the government leaders and government facilities. Dissolved during German reunification. |
Grenztruppen | ![]() |
1946-1990 | border guard | Responsible for border patrol and prevention of Republikflucht, including along the inner-German border and the Berlin Wall. Dissolved during German reunification. |
Dignity Battalions | ![]() |
1988-1990 | light infantry | Created to oppose a foreign invasion. Dissolved after the U.S. invasion of Panama. |
Fedayeen Saddam | ![]() |
1995-2003 | irregular unit | Created as an irregular military force separate from the Iraqi Armed Forces reporting directly to President Saddam Hussein. Dissolved after the U.S.-lead invasion of Iraq. |
Haganah | ![]() |
1920-1948 | Precursor of the Israeli army | Origins in guarding Jewish colonies |
Kuva-yi Miliye | ![]() |
1918-1921 | irregular unit | Created as irregular military forces serving the Grand National Assembly during the Turkish War of Independence. Integrated into the Turkish Army. |
National Police Reserve | ![]() |
1951-1954 | police reserve | Formed by the Japanese government and the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers as a precursor for the Japan Self-Defense Forces during the Korean War. |
ORMO | ![]() |
1946-1989 | police reserve | Responsible for aiding the Milicja Obywatelska in suppressing demonstrations. Declined during the period of martial law in the 1980's and was officially dissolved by the Sejm in 1989. |
Volkspolizei-Bereitschaft | ![]() |
1955-1990 | police reserve | Served as riot control and anti-insurgency regiment functioning alongside the Stasi. Dissolved during German unification. |
Sicherheitspolizei | ![]() |
1919-1935 | security police | Formed by Gustav Noske and the Reichswehr to control political violence from paramilitary parties after the German Revolution. Integrated into the Gestapo and the Reichswehr after the Nazi takeover. |
ZOMO | ![]() |
1956-1989 | rapid-response police | Served as an elite militarized unit of the Milicja Obywatelska. Dissolved after the fall of Communism. |
List of defunct non-governmental paramilitary units (in alphabetical order)
- Ahlu Sunna Waljama'a in Somalia
- The Blackshirts of the National Fascist Party in Fascist Italy
- The Opera Nazionale Balilla of Fascist Italy
- The Gioventù Italiana del Littorio of Fascist Italy
- The Chetniks, royalist supporters of the Yugoslav government-in-exile in Yugoslavia in World War II
- The Combat Groups of the Working Class of the Socialist Unity Party in East Germany
- The Frikorps Danmark of the Nazi Party in Denmark
- The Heimwehr of the Fatherland Front in Austria
- The Hird of the Nasjonal Samling under the Quisling regime in the Reichskommissariat Norwegen
- The Hitler Youth of the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany
- The Hlinkova garda of the People's Party in Slovakia
- The Munkásőrség in communist Hungary
- The Ostmärkische Sturmscharen of the Catholic Youth in fascist Austria
- The Munckska kåren in Sweden
- The New Guard of Australia
- The People's Militias of the Communist Party in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic
- The Republikanischer Schutzbund of the Social Democratic Party of Austria
- The Rodobrana of the Slovak People's Party of Czechoslovakia
- The Roter Frontkämpferbund of the Communist Party of Germany during the Weimar Republic
- The Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold of the Weimar Coalition during the Weimar Republic
- The Eiserne Front of the SPD with the ADGB, the Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold and workers' sport clubs during the Weimar Republic.
- Der Stahlhelm of the German National People's Party in the Weimar Republic
- The SA of the Nazi Party in the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany
- The SS of the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany
- The Self-Defense Forces of Colombia
- Suojeluskunta, volunteer militia in Finland 1918-1944.
- The Patriotic Guards of the Romanian Communist Party in the Socialist Republic of Romania
- The Tonton Macoute of the National Unity Party in Haiti during the regime of François Duvalier
- The Waffen-SS of the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany
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