Significations et usages de Auxiliaries

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Auxiliary may refer to:

• A backup site or system
• Auxiliary input jack, generally for audio
• Auxiliary verb
• International auxiliary language
• Auxiliary police
• Auxiliaries, troops supporting the main force of an army
  • Auxiliaries (Roman military)
• Auxiliary route, also known as "special route", in road transportation
  • An auxiliary route of the Interstate Highway System in the United States
• Auxiliary bishop, in the Roman Catholic Church
• Auxiliary organization in the Latter Day Saint movement
• Aux-send of a mixing console
• A marching band colorguard

  See also

• All pages beginning with "Auxiliary"
• All pages with titles containing "Auxiliary"
• Aux (disambiguation)

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An auxiliary force is a group affiliated with, but not part of, a military or police organization. In some cases, auxiliaries are armed forces operating in the same manner as regular soldiers. Most often, auxiliaries are civilian volunteer components supporting the main police or military force.

Historically the designation "auxiliary" has also been given to foreign or allied troops in the service of a nation at war^[1].

  Historical usage

  British Empire

The Auxiliary Division was a British paramilitary police force raised during the Irish War of Independence 1919–21. Colonial Auxiliary Forces were used in Africa during the Anglo-Boer War and elsewhere.

  Nazi Germany

German paramilitary police forces, called Hilfspolizei or Schutzmannschaft, were raised during World War II and were the collaborationist auxiliary police battalions of native policemen in occupied countries, which were created to fight the resistance during World War II mostly in the Eastern European countries occupied by Nazi Germany. Hilfspolizei refers also to German auxiliary police units. There was also a HIPO Corps in occupied Denmark. The term is mostly historical; it had also been applied to some units created in 1933 by the early Nazi government (mostly from members of SA and SS) and disbanded the same year due to international protests^[2][3][4][5].

  Roman auxiliaries

Auxiliaries in the Roman army were recruited from peoples that did not have Roman citizenship. As the Roman army was essentially based on heavy infantry, it favored the recruitment of auxiliaries that excelled in other roles, such as missile troops (e.g. Balearic slingers and Cretan archers), cavalry (recruited among peoples such as the Numidians, and the Thracians), or light infantry. Auxiliaries were not paid the same rate as legionaries, but auxiliaries could earn Roman citizenship after a term of service.

  Military or governmental auxiliaries

• Canadian Coast Guard Auxiliary
• Civil Air Patrol as an auxiliary of the United States Air Force
• Military Affiliate Radio System as a civilian auxiliary of the United States Armed Services
• Royal Fleet Auxiliary of the British Royal Navy
• United States Coast Guard Auxiliary as an auxiliary of the United States Coast Guard
• United States Merchant Marine as an auxiliary of the United States Navy

  References

1. ^ Concise Oxford Dictionary, ISBN 0-19-861131-5
2. ^ http://www.ospreypublishing.com/title_detail.php/title=T0684~view=extract
3. ^ http://books.google.com/books?id=-loCEm4maE8C&pg=PA37&dq=Hilfspolizei&ei=WofuR7ieFIOOywS2y6SpAQ&sig=eegphVoUYC7cqlhmL915TsVMtRk
4. ^ http://books.google.com/books?id=pA0fAAAAMAAJ&q=Hilfspolizei&dq=Hilfspolizei&lr=&ei=kIfuR76cIpfayASt77zGCw&pgis=1
5. ^ http://books.google.com/books?id=HAMd81LJJs4C&pg=PA9&dq=Hilfspolizei&lr=&ei=v4juR-aZDpW2ygTWxsFa&sig=1e9W2AsErvNKVcgXPmL4Ml0X6kc

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