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  2. Sturmabteilung - Wikipedia

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    The official uniform of the SA was a brown shirt with a brown tie. The color came about because a large shipment of Lettow-shirts, originally intended for the German colonial troops in Germany's former East Africa colony, [2] was purchased in 1921 by Gerhard Roßbach for use by his Freikorps paramilitary unit.

  3. Uniforms and insignia of the Sturmabteilung - Wikipedia

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    SA guards at Oranienburg concentration camp, 1933. The uniforms and insignia of the Sturmabteilung (SA) were Nazi Party paramilitary ranks and uniforms used by SA stormtroopers from 1921 until the fall of Nazi Germany in 1945. The titles and phrases used by the SA were the basis for paramilitary titles used by several other Nazi paramilitary ...

  4. Blackshirts - Wikipedia

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    In 1922 the squadristi were reorganized into the milizia and formed numerous bandiere, ... Adolf Hitler, in Nazi Germany, issued brown shirts to the Sturmabteilung ...

  5. Beefsteak Nazi - Wikipedia

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    Beefsteak Nazi[1][2] (Rindersteak-Nazi) or " Roast-beef Nazi " was a term used in Nazi Germany to describe communists and socialists who joined the Nazi Party. Munich-born American historian Konrad Heiden was one of the first to document this phenomenon in his 1936 book Hitler: A Biography, remarking that in the Sturmabteilung (Brownshirts, SA ...

  6. List of commanders of the Blackshirts - Wikipedia

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    Emilio De Bono. Italo Balbo. Cesare Maria De Vecchi. Final holder. Renato Ricci. Abolished. 8 December 1943. The Commandant-General of the Blackshirts (Italian: Comandante generale della MVSN) was the supreme commander of the Blackshirts.

  7. Stennes revolt - Wikipedia

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    The Stennes revolt was a revolt within the Nazi Party in 1930 through 1931 led by Walter Stennes, the Berlin commandant of the Sturmabteilung (SA), the Nazi's "brownshirt" storm troops. The revolt arose from internal tensions and conflicts within the Nazi Party of Germany, particularly between the party organization headquartered in Munich and ...

  8. Gerhard Roßbach - Wikipedia

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    Gerhard Roßbach (28 February 1893 – 30 August 1967), also spelled Rossbach, was a German Freikorps leader and organizer of nationalist groups after World War I. He is generally credited with inventing the brown uniforms of the Nazi Party after supplying surplus tropical khaki shirts to early troops of the Sturmabteilung (SA).

  9. Reichszeugmeisterei - Wikipedia

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    Reichszeugmeisterei. Coordinates: 48°6′6.5″N 11°35′0.8″E. The Reichszeugmeisterei (German: [ˈʁaɪçs.tsɔʏkmaɪstəˌʁaɪ]; RZM), formally located in Munich, was the first and eventually the primary Zeugmeisterei (quartermaster 's office), as well as the national material control office of Nazi Germany. It replaced the SA ...