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[[Image:Sturmabteilungen.jpg|right|thumb|250px|An SA propaganda poster]]

[[Image:Sturmabteilungen.jpg|right|thumb|250px|An SA propaganda poster]]

The '''Sturmabteilung''' (German: "Assault Division"; abbreviated as '''SA'''), were a paramilitary organization within the [[Nazi Party]] in interwar [[Germany]], originally founded to protect Nazi meetings from disruption, they were the tool used to intimidate, threaten, and commit acts of violence against political opponents as well as [[Jew]]s and other individuals opposed by party doctrines.  Commonly referred to as the "Brownshirts" or "Storm troopers" (the latter of which was personally given by Adolf Hitler in reference to their founding on November 4, 1921 regarding a street fight at the Fall Festival house of Hofbrauhaus in Munich, Germany<ref>http://avalon.law.yale.edu/imt/2168-ps.asp</ref>), the SA at its height numbered greater than twenty times that of the German Army.

The '''Sturmabteilung''' (German: "Assault Division"; abbreviated as '''SA'''), were a paramilitary organization within the [[Nazi Party]] in interwar [[Germany]], originally founded to protect Nazi meetings from disruption, they were the tool used to intimidate, threaten, and commit acts of violence against political opponents as well as [[Jew]]s and other individuals opposed by party doctrines.  Commonly referred to as the "Brownshirts" or "Storm troopers" (the latter of which was personally given by Adolf Hitler in reference to their founding on November 4, 1921 regarding a street fight against Marxists at the Fall Festival house of Hofbrauhaus in Munich, Germany<ref>http://avalon.law.yale.edu/imt/2168-ps.asp</ref>), the SA at its height numbered greater than twenty times that of the German Army.

==History==

==History==