Word: brownshirt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...swooped down on Germany's famed Stahlhelm (Steel Helmets), organization of World War veterans headed by Labor Minister Franz Seldte, retired soda water manufacturer. The 1,000,000 steel helmet troopers, whom Adolf Hitler once barred from joining his Storm detachments, were told that they must join the brownshirt Storm Battalions and obey hereafter only Chancellor Hitler. Similarly dissolved and merged were the 10,000 green-shirted youths organized by Nationalist Leader Dr. Alfred Hugenberg as his party's "Battle Ring...
...opinion Chancellor Hitler last week sent out two "goodwill" envoys. To Britain young Dr. Alfred Rosenberg, who bears the curious title of Chief of the Foreign Politics Division of the Nazi Party. To Scandinavia one Alexander Bogs. Neither was a trained diplomat, both were more used to roaring at Brownshirt crowds than dealing with urbane, stable governments. If Chancellor Hitler was unskilled in the choice of his envoys, he was even more unfortunate in choosing the time for sending them...
...letters plucked out of Adolf Hitler's official German title Oberste Sturmab-teilungenjuhrer (literally "Supreme Storm Troops' Leader") in his brownshirt army...
Promptly the Munich judge ruled, "You must answer the lawyer. The Court has no questions." But Witness Hitler kept mum as an owl, sat with arms folded while his brownshirt followers filled the courtroom with a chant of "Germany awake! Awake!! Awake...
...tide seemed to turn when 500 Stennes stormers permitted 100 loyal Hitlerites to eject them from brownshirt headquarters. Hitler designated Storm Lieut. Col. Paul Schulz to assume command. Soon "Silver Tongued" Joseph Goebbles fired most of the editorial of Der Angriff, hired 100% Hitlerites...