AQA GCSE History · 8145
Paper 1
The Sturmabteilung, the Nazi Party’s brown-shirted paramilitary organisation, which protected Nazi meetings, disrupted opponents’ meetings and used street violence and intimidation.
Revise: Impact of the DepressionThe SA, short for Sturmabteilung or ‘Stormtroopers’, was the Nazi Party’s paramilitary organisation. Its members wore brown uniforms, giving them the nickname ‘Brownshirts’. Formed in 1921, it recruited former soldiers and, later, unemployed men and students.
- Revise: Establishment of Dictatorship
The Nazi Party’s paramilitary organisation, also called the Brownshirts, which used street violence and intimidation against opponents. Ernst Röhm led it during Hitler’s consolidation of power.