The name Sturmabteilung?, which originated from the Western Front in World War I, when the Germans invented the tactic of small detachment infiltration in order to solve the dilemma of trench warfare, and the troops who carried out this tactic were called Sturmabteilung.

If they should be called "Storm Detachment" in the literal sense, there is a more fashionable translation in later generations, that is, the famous "Storm Troo".

Of course, the actual stormtroopers and storm commandos are completely different concepts, and the former is just borrowing the title that terrified the Allied soldiers on the battlefield of the Western Front.

When the SA was purged by Hitler, the SS that became independent from the SA followed the SA organization, so the basic unit of the SS was still called the Storm Commando, but this had nothing to do with the original SA.

When people talk about stormtroopers, they always associate it with the chaotic and blood-boiling days before and after the Nazis came to power. The brown linen uniform witnessed the miraculous rise of the National Socialist Workers' Party. It is difficult to tell the relationship between this party and the SA in the early days of the Nazi Party, some people will say that the Nazi Party made the SA, but others think that the relationship between them would seem more reasonable if they were reversed.

The SA emerged from the Freikorps, which had run amok in Germany after World War I, and the defeated Second Reich was in a period of total depression, which had devastated the German economy, exacerbated by the harsh Treaty of Versailles. In the midst of all kinds of ideological noise in society, ordinary people at the bottom are at a loss and do not know how to choose the direction of the future.

War veterans find it difficult to find suitable jobs because of their lack of job skills, and most of them have been honed into killing machines on the battlefield and are completely unable to adapt to ordinary social life. As a result, with the support and organization of some well-intentioned people, a series of "Freikorps" were born all over Germany, recruiting all veterans who were dissatisfied with the outcome of the war, and the targets of the legions were the left-wing parties and Jews who were extremely active in Germany at that time.

At that time, left-wing parties and workers' groups in Germany tried to replicate a Soviet-style revolution in Germany and completely change the German political system. So they followed the example of their comrades in the East and organized a series of workers' armed forces.

At that time, the leaders of the right-wing parties, who were mainly talking about artillery, never thought that there was such an operation as the iron fist of the proletariat. To be honest, the use of violence to spread one's own ideas and attack one's own political opponents is indeed a relatively expert in this regard.

So in 1919, the "Spartacus Alliance" led by the Left Independent Socialist Party and the Communist Party of Germany launched the famous "January Uprising" in German history, and 500,000 unemployed workers poured into Berlin, and the protest march soon turned into a communist revolution, and the workers' armed forces occupied the city of Berlin in one fell swoop in only half a day.

Just when everyone thought Germany would become the second Soviet Union, the uprising was quickly suppressed, and the nascent Bavarian Soviet Republic disappeared for only a week.

There were many reasons for the failure of the uprising, such as the struggle for power within the "Spartacus Alliance", the ideological dispute between the armed revolutionaries and the peaceful reformists, etc., but the biggest reason for the failure came from the outside, that is, the army that supported the Weimar Republic and the "Freikorps" who came to support them from all over the country.

Among them was a militia unit known as the "Free Army Corps of the Eastern Bavarian Frontier" or the "Free Army Corps of Ep", which was very active in the suppression of the Berlin uprising. Julius. Günt. Roma.

In terms of seniority, Röhm had been in the Nazi Party longer than Hitler, because at the time of his membership the party was called the "German Workers' Party".

Hitler was interested in Röhm's political hard-line attitude and armed forces, while Röhm wanted a leader who could live up to his political ideals, and of course even better if he could also meet his economic needs.

It was a honeymoon period for Hitler and the SA, and Röhm hit it off with Hitler and began to fight with all his might for the rise of the Nazi Party. Rohm's ruthless veterans, who liked to physically eliminate the enemies or potential opponents of the Nazi Party, reckoned to political debates on chair legs and wine bottles, according to their words.

During that time, there were many bloodbaths in various parts of Germany, most of which were related to the SA. By this time, the composition of the SA had changed, and a large number of landless peasants in the countryside and unemployed gangsters had joined the group, the former had no idea what to do, while the latter knew how to destroy the evidence because of his constant struggle with the police system.

With the rise of the Nazis, the size of the SA also expanded rapidly, and at its peak, the number of SA troops in Germany exceeded 3 million, which was 30 times that of the Wehrmacht, which was controlled at 100,000 at that time.

When the Nazis took power in Germany, Hitler no longer had to fight in the streets with rival parties, and he had more means to concoct his opponents. At this time, Hitler needed to establish a healthy and upward image among the Germans, so he had to change the off-chain dog-like style of the SA and move closer to the Germanic order and tradition.

Hitler first took back a series of privileges he had given to the SA, which he wanted to co-opt into the German state apparatus as an auxiliary part of the police system.

This was obviously not what Röhm wanted to see, and the rapidly expanding SA organization also made him blindly confident, and he even began to plan to replace the "rotten" Wehrmacht with his SA.

Röhm has always thought highly of himself, and he does not think much of Hitler, a former army corporal, so whenever there is a conflict between the ideas of the two people, he never cares about the latter's face. Röhm began to declare that he was ready to launch a second revolution to fulfill the promises made to the German people in the Nazi Party's 25 Points, and he demanded that the capital of the big business and the big trusts be nationalized and that the wealth of the capitalists be distributed to every German citizen.

In fact, anyone with a discerning eye understands that Röhm's spearhead is actually aimed at Hitler, because the other party has reached a compromise with the capitalist forces in Germany, and once the second revolution mentioned by Röhm begins, if Hitler expresses his opposition, he will inevitably lose the support of the people.

Röhm's arrogant provocation finally exhausted Hitler's patience, and after clearly gaining the support of the army and the forces of capital, he decisively launched the "Night of the Long Knife". And the main force responsible for this bloody purge was the new force he had specially raised to fight the SA, loyal only to his personal SS.

After the Night of the Long Knives, the SS quickly replaced the SA as the sharpest blade of the Nazi Party. The SA suffered a heavy blow in this infighting, and at least 2,000 high- and middle-ranking commanders were arrested across the country, and in addition to the more than 200 who were executed at the time, the rest died in concentration camps in various places.

After that purge, the SA completely withdrew from the political front of Germany and were completely reduced to the kind of auxiliary units that Hitler had planned. But the SA had been in existence in Germany for more than a decade, and Hitler could not erase the group's influence among the population, let alone outlaw it. He could only minimize the social activities of the SA, and no longer organized flag parades in the streets every three days.

At the same time, he also incorporated a large number of the backbone of the SA into the expanding Wehrmacht, which was quite effective, and without these activists, the SA soon lost its original vitality, and the number was rapidly reduced to a controllable degree, and most of them were old and weak whose age or physical condition did not meet the service standards.

Today's pot-bellied SA veterans riding bicycles on the streets, or rookies with a childish face and a Hitler Youth scarf, have gradually replaced the heroic image of stormtroopers holding the party flag high in early Nazi propaganda. By 1940, the SA could only be responsible for some security patrols and the training of new recruits, and it was no longer the old view of roaring streets.

"Salute to the Führer! Hi! Reinhart! "Under the leadership of the leading SA squad leader, the new generation of SA members resolutely declared their loyalty to the new generation of imperial heads.

The Führer stood high on the table, looked down at the group of young faces, raised his hand and flipped his wrist. "Hi..."

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