By David Littlejohn, Ronald Volstad

In 1919 Adolf Hitler joined the tiny German staff' occasion (DAP) in Munich, changing into its chief the subsequent yr and including 'National Socialist' to its name. hence the NSDAP, popularly often called the Nazi occasion, was once born. All political events had strong-arm squads to guard their conferences from disruption by way of competitors, and the NSDAP was once no exception. In August 1921 ex-naval Lieutenant Hans Ulrich Klintzsch took command of the NSDAP's 'Defence and Propaganda Troop' which, the next month, used to be renamed the SA (Sturmabteilung = typhoon Detachment). David Littlejohn's high-quality textual content examines the historical past, uniforms and insignia of Hitler's stormtroopers.

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