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Adolf Hitler began his rise to power at the end of World War One. He rose on the wave of brokenness that enveloped the German population after the demoralizing loss of the Great War. He was charismatic and knew how to woo people to his side. He also read the German culture and knew how to inflame their national pride. But even with all of his great leadership gifts, the man did not rise to power alone. With him, he gathered malcontents and people who hated their circumstances and formed them into formidable forces. Two of the groups that catapulted him into unassailability were the SA and the SS. These groups guaranteed that Hitler would gain and hold power for a very long time.
The SA, or otherwise known as Sturmabteilung, began as the National Socialist German Workers’ Partys’(NSDAP) security branch. The SA was mainly made up of street fighters and ex-soldiers, The men of the SA protected Nazi meetings. They also broke up a lot of rival political group meetings and harassed the Nazi’s opponents. By September the 1921, Hitler had successfully made the SA into a private army just for him. He then chose the name Sturmabteilung or (‘Stormtroops’) and had them clothed in uniforms styled after the military uniforms. So the party organizers got a large shipment of very cheap army brown shirts, which would eventually become distinctive uniforms of the SA. The SA became a very important tool for Hitler’s rise to power. Until the summer of 1934, the SA was the most feared and the
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