Posted on 03/23/2023 3:05:35 PM PDT by DallasBiff
I don’t play video games , I just saw my friends son playing that game.
The purpose of Brown Shirts was to give the opponents of the Nazis Brown Pants to scare them intimidate them.
Antifa was different than the SA. Antifa were communists against the Nazi socialists.
I’d say Garland’s more of a Gestapo type than a brownshirt.
Not the leaders, but certainly the average ones who were recruited from the Working Class Ghettoes could be convinced. A lot of SA members started out as Communist street brawlers.
Maybe they “got religion” real quick!
Or they figured out the Nazis had the better beer at their rallies.
Also, Stalin was more than happy to allow Hitler to destroy the German Communists, he even provided the Gestapo with information, outing Communist agents working in Germany at the time.
Stalin was weary of the German Communists coming to power, because he saw a Communist Germany as a threat to the Soviet Union’s leadership in the Communist world.
Interesting point.
Bttt
What I find telling in the standard(banner) the Nazis carried were the words Deutschland Erwache. "Germany Awake''. What do these Antifa punks say? They're ''woke''? Some things never change.
OK, so he is in charge of running a buncha Brownshirts.
You aren’t wrong.
It was the Waffen SS or “Weapon’’ or “Armed SS’’ who were formed into panzer units who fought as soldiers in the field.
What ever unit distinction they went by they were all murdering bastards.
None of them should have ever been taken prisoners. They should have been shot out of hand. The SS fought deliberately and purposefully outside any known and accepted rules of warfare. The Russians routinely shot SS prisoners. In fact the Russians were known to shoot just about every German soldier they got a hold of SS or not.
I like that and will put it in my tagline
Sig Heil, your pics got the old fascist within stirred up.
Question, how can I click and save your post and splatter it all over social media? I love it, very comprehensive.
“Beefsteak Nazi[1][2] (Rindersteak Nazi) or “Roast-beef Nazi” was a term used in Nazi Germany to describe communists and socialists who joined the Nazi Party. Munich-born American historian Konrad Heiden was one of the first to document this phenomenon in his 1936 book Hitler: A Biography, remarking that in the Sturmabteilung (Brownshirts, SA) ranks there were “large numbers of Communists and Social Democrats” and that “many of the storm troops were called ‘beefsteaks’ – brown outside and red within....”
The Krauts sure were snappy dressers.
Roland Freisler was a Bolshevik, Hitler would always refer to him as “That Old Bolshevik”.
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