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TEUTONIC KNIGHTS

The Order Of Teutonic Knights was an order similar to the Templars and Knights of St John but restricted to Germans. It was founded at Acre in 1190 originally to tend wounded crusaders, it soon took up aggressive warfare against the heathen. The order was suppressed in Germany by Napoleon in 1809, but was still in existence in Austria in the 1920s caring for those wounded at war.
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