What military unit was established in 1831 so that foreign nationals could serve in a nation's Army?
French Army "Matériel"; Logistics ("Train"); Signals ("Transmissions"). Parachute units are maintained by several of the "armes". The "Légion étrangère" (French Foreign Legion) was established in 1831 for foreign nationals willing to serve in the French Armed Forces. The Legion is commanded by French officers. It is an elite military unit numbering around 7,000 troops. The Legion has gained worldwide recognition for its service, most recently in Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan since 2001. It is not strictly an "Arme" but a "commandement particulier", whose regiments belong to several arms, notably the infantry and the engineering arm. The Troupes de marine are the
Central Register of Foreign Nationals (Germany) Foreign Nationals was the "Ausländerzentralkartei" which was established in 1938 by the Nazi government. In 1953 the Central Register of Foreign Nationals was established. The Federal office responsible for administering the Central Register of Foreign Nationals was awarded a Big Brother Award for their operation of the database, for the given reason of "institutionalized official discrimination of non-German citizens in Germany". Central Register of Foreign Nationals (Germany) The Central Register of Foreign Nationals (German: "Ausländerzentralregister (AZR)") is a German database, containing personal information about approximately 20 million foreign nationals. Of these, as of February 2009, approximately 4.5 million are EU