Sturmabteilung
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The Sturmabteilung (SA) (Storm Detachment or Assault Division, or Brownshirts) functioned as the original paramilitary wing of the Nazi Party. It played a key role in Adolf Hitler's rise to power in the 1920s and 1930s. Their main assignments were providing protection for Nazi rallies and assemblies; the disruption of opposing political parties and the fight against their paramilitary units (esp. the Rotfrontkämpferbund); and the intimidation of Jewish citizens (e.g. the Nazi boycott of Jewish businesses).
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See also
- Uniforms and insignia of the Sturmabteilung
- Militia
- Paramilitary
- Political color
- Political uniform
- Stormtrooper
- Glossary of Nazi Germany
- List of Nazi Party leaders and officials
Similar para-military organisations
- Blackshirts
- Blackshirts – Albania
- Blueshirts – Canada
- Brownshirts – Germany
- Blueshirts – Ireland
- Greenshirts – Ireland
- Gestapo – Nazi Germany
- Goldshirts – Mexico
- Greyshirts – ethnically Dutch South Africans
- Greenshirts – Romania
- Blackshirts – United Kingdom
- Silvershirts – United States
- Black Brigades
- Blue Shirts Society – Republic of China and Taiwan (Kuomintang)
- Italian Social Republic – Blackshirts
- Squadrismo
- Integralismo
- Black ShortsTemplate:Spaced ndashparody of the blackshirts in the writings of P.G. Wodehouse
- Black Brigades
- Freikorps
- National Socialist Motor Corps
- Panzer Corps Feldherrnhalle
- Weimar paramilitary groups
- Yokusan Sonendan
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