The Sturmabteilung, or SA, were known as the Brownshirts and Stormtroopers. The group predates the WWII period, as the first Storm Detachment was founded on March 2, 1915 as a small group tasked with developing new tactics for the Western Front during WWI. After the war a number of SA men became security for DAP meetings, and would later number 400,000 men under the NSDAP in the 1930s.
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