Röhm helped Hitler win the support of the army in Bavaria and made available to him his private strong-arm force, which, in October 1921, became the Sturmabteilung.
The power of Hitler's appeal was reflected in the party's growing membership lists from 170,000 members in 1929 to 1,378,000 in 1932 and in the swelling ranks of the Nazi Party's paramilitary SA (Sturmabteilung), the infamous storm troopers.
In an effort to appease the Nazis, who formed the second largest party in Parliament, he lifted the ban on the Nazis' paramilitary Sturmabteilung (SA) on June 15 and deposed the Social Democratic government of Prussia on July 20.
November 28, 1887 Munich, Germany July 1, 1934 Munich, Germany Ernst Röhm, Röhm also spelled Roehm (born November 28, 1887, Munich, Germany died July 1 , 1934 Munich-Stadelheim) German army officer and chief organizer of Adolf Hitler's storm troops (Sturmabteilung, or SA; Brownshirts).
The Nazi SA (Sturmabteilung ["Assault Division"], or Brownshirts) clashed regularly with German leftists in the streets before 1933, and when Hitler came to power he sent hundreds of Marxists to concentration camps and intimidated "red" neighbourhoods with police raids and beatings.
SA, abbreviation of Sturmabteilung (German: "Assault Division"), byname Storm Troopers or Brownshirts, German Sturmtruppen or Braunhemden, in the German Nazi Party, a paramilitary organization whose methods of violent intimidation played a key role in Adolf Hitler's rise to power.
One week after Kristallnacht, he joined a cavalry unit of the Storm Troopers — in German, the Sturmabteilung, or S.A.
Meanwhile, in the city of his birth, the chancellor Franz von Papen was revoking the ban on the Sturmabteilung, the Nazis' paramilitary wing, and thereby unleashing a torrent of political violence and terror that ultimately led to Hitler's assumption of power.
This decision advantaged Corbyn and his Sturmabteilung (stormtroopers), but on Friday afternoon the appeal court handed down a big decision for British democracy.
Folly to describe any political purge as a Night of the Long Knives, not just because it won't be as bloody as the purge of the Sturmabteilung in 1934 which gave its name to the term, but also because the phrase was boringly recycled for Harold Macmillan's purge of his cabinet during the Conservative party's drawn-out meltdown in the early 1960s.
Its logo is inspired by the emblem of the Sturmabteilung, the paramilitary arm of the Nazi party.
