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The '''Sturmabteilung''' or '''SA''' or '''brownshirts''' was Hitler's original paramilitary group. | The '''Sturmabteilung''' or '''SA''' or '''brownshirts''' was Hitler's original paramilitary group. ALthough the intent of the group changed, it always providing protection at Nazi rallies. The Sturmabteilung had antecendants in the German Worker's Party ("DAP"), which later added the word "socialist" to it's name ("NSDAP"), to Hitler's initial objectitions, to appeal to left-wingers. | ||
The NSDAP was mainly focused on small public meetings in places like bars, where protesters were ejected with violent force. It was temporarily renamed the "Gymnastic and Sports Division" as Hitler gained more prominence. The future Sturmabteilung gained more members by organizing pub fighters and ex-soldiers who protected the SA from protests from Social Democrats and Communists. In the late 1920s, Germany was suffering an economic crisis, and the SA recruited primarily form the unemployed or what Marx would call the [[lumpenproletariat]] of Germany. | The NSDAP was mainly focused on small public meetings in places like bars, where protesters were ejected with violent force. It was temporarily renamed the "Gymnastic and Sports Division" as Hitler gained more prominence. | ||
==Sturmabteilung and society's unfortunate== | |||
The future Sturmabteilung gained more members by organizing pub fighters and ex-soldiers who protected the SA from protests from Social Democrats and Communists. In the late 1920s, Germany was suffering an economic crisis, and the SA recruited primarily form the unemployed or what Marx would call the [[lumpenproletariat]] of Germany. Left-wingers and socialists allege the SA gained from a propensity for the unemployed to be bribed from those who are hostile to working people and left-wing politics in general. | |||