Word: troop
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...matter what brutalities they might commit nor how queerly they might act, Nazi Storm Troop leaders under Adolf Hitler have always banked on his reputation of never letting an old comrade down...
Compared to the refined abruptness of Benito Mussolini or the violence of Josef Stalin in disposing of defective political tools, Adolf Hitler was, until last week, the Gentle Dictator. The accepted Brown House axiom "Once your friend. Der Führer is always your friend!" remained a potent Storm Troop recruiting slogan. One had only to scan the greedy, sensual, plug-ugly face of Storm Troop Chief of Staff Ernst Roehm; one had only to reflect that all Germany knew of his bull-like philandering with effeminate young men (TIME, March 20, 1933), to decide that since Chancellor Hitler stomached...
...order of Chancellor Hitler the S. A. boys were to turn in their uniforms July 1 and take a month's vacation. Already on vacation was Storm Troop Chief of Staff Ernst Roehm at his rustic snuggery near Munich. But in Berlin his sub-comrades kept pestering the Chancellor with demands that he dissolve the rival Stahl helm. Despite the fact that Storm Troopers hooted at Stahlhelm Leader Seldte and stoned his bodyguards a few weeks ago the Storm Troopers based their demand on the obscure stabbing of one of their district leaders by a Stahlhelm official in Pomerania...
...watched Vice Admiral Frank Hardeman Brumby of the Scouting Force fight it out with Admiral Joseph Mason Reeves of the Battle Force. Admiral Brumby's lighter Grey Fleet was assumed to have the Caribbean under guard. Admiral Reeves's Blue force, with 1,200 marines on four troop ships, was out to take one or all of these strategic points: Ponce, San Juan, Culebra, St. Thomas. To an extent never before attempted, the fog of war enveloped the Caribbean. All communications were restricted, running lights extinguished. With Very rockets, destroyers torpedoed battleships. Battleships fired back with searchlights. Overhead...
...Owen Davis Jr.) and his fiancée are admirers of Adolf Hitler. But when Karl's bigwig Storm Trooper friend Johannes von Rentzau learns that his mother is Jewish, a Nazi blight falls on the house. Professor Opal loses his job, bank account, friends; Karl his Storm Troop membership and fiancée. Frau Opal shoots herself dead. Von Rentzau marches in with a handful of troopers to inform the professor that because he had a son killed in the War, the high command has reinstated him at the university. Bearing his wife's body onstage, Professor...