List of defunct paramilitary organizations

List of defunct governmental paramilitary units (in alphabetical order)

Name	Region	Active between	Type	Notes
Barracked People's Police (KVP)	East Germany	1948-1956	gendarmerie	Formed by the Soviet Military Administration in Germany as the precursor to the National People's Army
B-Gendarmerie	Allied-occupied Austria	1949-1954	gendarmerie	Formed as the precursor to the Austrian Armed Forces
Bundesgrenzschutz	Germany	1951-2005	border guard	Responsible for border patrol and transport security. Also precursor to the Bundeswehr
Felix Dzerzhinsky Guards Regiment	East Germany	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	East Germany	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	Panama	1988-1990	light infantry	Created to oppose a foreign invasion. Dissolved after the U.S. invasion of Panama.
Fedayeen Saddam	Iraq	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	Mandatory Palestine	1920-1948	Precursor of the Israeli army	Origins in guarding Jewish colonies
Kuva-yi Miliye	Turkey	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	Allied-occupied Japan	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	Poland	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	East Germany	1955-1990	police reserve	Served as riot control and anti-insurgency regiment functioning alongside the Stasi. Dissolved during German unification.
Sicherheitspolizei	Germany	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	Poland	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

See also

• List of Free Corps
• List of paramilitary organizations
• Paramilitary