Ironically, it was Hitler’s loathsome civilian national security corps, the SA, or brownshirts, who provided the “boots on the ground” to make the Kristallnacht happen. Without them, the German public probably wouldn’t have committed such an act on such a grand scale.
But Hitler loved corps. Along with the SA, and the Stormtroopers, he had the Labor Service Corps, Hitler Youth Corps, German Veterans Corps, Hitler Leadership Corps, Speakers Corps, Women’s Corps, German Student’s Corps, Teacher’s Corps, Labor Corps, and Lawyer’s Corps.
Obama plans to expand AmeriCorps, USA Freedom Corps, VISTA, YouthBuild Program, and the Senior Corps. And form new Classroom Corps, Health Corps, Clean Energy Corps, Veterans Corps, Homeland Security Corps, Global Energy Corps, and a Green Jobs Corps.
That’s true, just as they assured his election in 1933.
Though quite dissimilar, there is an underlying connection between armed militia outside te Reichstag for the vote and open balloting for union ratification. Intimidation.
Actually, the SA was effectively ended by Hitler in 1934 with the purge of its leaders:
http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/timeline/roehm-bio.htm
But Hitler had other paramilitary groups as you state.