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The '''Sturmabteilung''' or '''SA''' or '''brownshirts''' was Hitler's original paramilitary group and direct antecedent to the entire National Socialist Party. Although the intent of the group changed, it always provided protection of Nazi rallies from protesters and was always a self-identified official part of the Nazi regime and it's antecedants. The Sturmabteilung's antecendant was 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 '''Sturmabteilung''' or '''SA''' or '''brownshirts''' was Hitler's original paramilitary group and direct antecedent to the entire National Socialist Party. Although the intent of the group changed, it always provided protection of Nazi rallies from protesters and was always a self-identified official part of the Nazi regime and it's antecedants. The Sturmabteilung's antecendant was 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. | ||
Early brownshirts mainly concerned themselves with violently ejecting protesters from early NSDAP meetings. | |||
==Sturmabteilung and society's unfortunate== | ==Sturmabteilung and society's unfortunate== | ||
The | The Sturmabteilung formed 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. | ||
==Sturmabteilung and incels== | ==Sturmabteilung and incels== | ||