Never thought such a far out movie would become a reality
Can’t wait till a Paul Kersey drives punk politicians in these cities bonkers
Yeah, we need about 2,000 Paul Kersey's in every leftwing city in the country.
Yep, and if Trump remained President for four more years they would all wear brown shirts and I don't mean UPS Drivers:
SA, abbreviation of
Sturmabteilung (German: “Assault Division”), byname
Storm Troopers or
Brownshirts, German
Sturmtruppen or
Braunhemden, in the German
Nazi Party, a paramilitary organization whose methods of violent intimidation played a key role in
Adolf Hitler’s rise to power.
SA
Ernst Röhm reviewing troops of the Silesian SA in Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland), 1933.
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The SA was founded in Munich by Hitler in 1921 out of various roughneck elements that had attached themselves to the fledgling Nazi movement. It drew its early membership largely from the
Freikorps (Free Corps), armed freebooter groups, made up largely of ex-soldiers, that battled leftists in the streets in the early days of the
Weimar Republic. Outfitted in brown uniforms after the fashion of
Benito Mussolini’s Fascist
Blackshirts in Italy, the SA men protected party meetings, marched in Nazi rallies, and physically assaulted political opponents. Temporarily in disarray after the failure of Hitler’s
Munich Putsch in 1923, the SA was reorganized in 1925 and soon resumed its violent ways, intimidating voters in national and local elections. From January 1931 it was headed by
Ernst Röhm, who harboured radical anticapitalist notions and dreamed of building the SA into
Germany’s main military force. Under Röhm SA membership, swelled from the ranks of the
Great Depression’s unemployed, grew to 400,000 by 1932 and to perhaps 2,000,000—20 times the size of the regular army—by the time that Hitler came to power in 1933.
Ernst Röhm
Ernst Röhm, 1933.
Heinrich Hoffmann, Munich
During the early days of the Nazi regime, the SA carried out unchecked street violence against Jews and Nazi opponents. But it was eyed with suspicion by the regular army and by the wealthy industrialists, two groups whose support Hitler was trying to secure. Against Hitler’s expressed wishes, Röhm continued to press for a “second Nazi revolution” of a socialist character, and he hoped to merge the regular army with the SA under his own leadership. On June 30, 1934, the
Night of the Long Knives (
die Nacht der langen Messer), Hitler, using
SS forces, carried out a “Blood Purge” of the SA leadership. Röhm and dozens of SA leaders were summarily executed. Thereafter the SA, reduced in strength, continued to exist but ceased to play a major political role in Nazi affairs. From 1939 it was in charge of training all able-bodied men for Home Guard units.
SA troops
SA troops locking hands to prevent Jews from entering the University of Vienna.
© National Archives/United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Night of the Long Knives: newspaper coverage
Article about the Night of the Long Knives on the front page of the Pennsylvanian newspaper
The Bethlehem Globe-Times, July 2, 1934.
Timothy Hughes Rare and Early Newspapers
The Editors of Encyclopaedia BritannicaThis article was most recently revised and updated by
Michael Ray, Editor.
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