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Hitler Part 5: The Early Years, The Stormtroopers Arrive

Hitler decides the Nazi party needs an army... He creates the Sturmabteilung, or SA.

Hitler decides he needs an army of his own. The Nazis create a new paramilitary unit – the Sturmabteilung, or SA. These hooligans take National Socialism onto the streets. Hitler assembles an executive team of deputies. They include Ernst Röhm - an army insider with a stockpile of weapons. And a celebrity fighter pilot called Hermann Göring...

This is Part 5 of 25.

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