Battle of the Third Reich

The Stormtrooper (Sturmabteilung?), the name originated from the Western Front battlefield in World War I. In order to solve the dilemma of the trench warfare, the Germans invented the detachment penetration tactics, and the troops performing such tactics are called Sturmabteilung.

If literally, they should be called "Storm Detachment", and there is a more fashionable translation for later generations, that is the famous "Storm Commando".

Of course, the actual stormtroopers and storm stormtroopers are units of two concepts, the former just borrowed the title that made the Allied soldiers frightened on the Western Front.

When the stormtroopers were cleaned by Hitler, the independent SS from the stormtroopers followed the way the stormtroopers were organized, so the basic unit of the SS was still called the storm stormtroopers, but this was not the same as the original stormtroopers. Any relationship.

People talk about the stormtroopers, and they are always associated with the chaotic and **** days before and after the Nazis came to power. The brown linen uniform witnessed the miraculous rise of the National Socialist Workers Party. It's hard to tell the relationship between this party and the stormtroopers in the early days of the Nazi party. Some people would say that the Nazis achieved the stormtroopers, but some people think that if the relationship between them is reversed, it will look more reasonable. .

The stormtroopers were born out of the "Legion of Freedom" that was rampant in Germany after World War I. The defeated Second Reich fell into a period of total depression. The war has destroyed the German economy, and the harsh Versailles peace treaty is even worse. The hustle and bustle of all kinds of ideas in the society, ordinary civilians at the bottom are at a loss, and they don't know how to choose the way forward.

Veterans left behind by the war, because of lack of work skills, it is difficult to find a suitable job, and most of them have been honed by the battlefield into a killing machine, completely unable to adapt to ordinary social life. Therefore, with the support and organization of some interested people, a series of "Freedom Legions" were born all over Germany, recruiting all veterans and soldiers who were dissatisfied with the outcome of the defeat. The target of the Legion’s attack was the extremely active left-wing parties in Germany. And the Jews.

At that time, German left-wing parties and workers' groups tried to replicate a Soviet-style revolution in Germany and completely changed the German government. Therefore, they used the comrades of the East as an example to organize a series of workers' armed forces.

At that time, the leaders of the right-wing political parties that were mainly mouth guns never thought about the operation of the proletariat. To be honest, the use of violence to spread their own thoughts and attack their political opponents, the left is indeed more expert in this regard.

So in 1919, the "Spartacus Alliance" led by the Left-wing Independent Socialist Party and the German Communist Party launched the famous "January Uprising" in German history, and 500,000 unemployed workers poured into Berlin to protest the march It soon became a communist revolution, and it took only half a day for the workers' armed forces to occupy the city of Berlin in one fell swoop.

And when everyone thought that Germany would become the second Soviet Union, the uprising was quickly suppressed, and the nascent Bavarian Soviet Republic also disappeared, only a week before and after.

There are many reasons for the failure of the uprising, such as the struggle for power within the "Spartacus Alliance", the ideological dispute between the armed revolutionaries and the peace reformers, etc., and the biggest reason for failure comes from the outside, that is, the support of the Weimar Republic Army and the "Freedom Corps" that came from all over the country to support it.

One of them is a militia unit called the "Liberian Eastern Front Freedom Corps" or the "App Freedom Corps". They were very active in the suppression of the Berlin uprising. One of the troops was born in Munich before the age of thirty-two. The captain of the army is named Ernst Julius Gent Roma.

If we count the seniority alone, Roma spent more time in the Nazi party than Hitler, because when he joined the party, this party was also called the "German Workers' Party".

Hitler's preference was for Roma's politically tough attitude and the armed forces in his hands. What Roma wanted was a leader who could achieve his political ideals. Of course, it would be better if he could still meet his economic needs.

That time was the honeymoon period of Hitler and the Stormtroopers. Roma and Hitler hit it off and began to fight for the rise of the Nazi Party. The group of ruthless veterans under Roma like to eliminate the Nazi party's enemies or potential opponents directly from the flesh. According to their words, they rely on chair legs and wine bottles for political debate.

During that time there were many **** cases in various parts of Germany, most of them related to the stormtroopers. At this time, the composition of the stormtroopers has changed. A large number of rural landless peasants and unemployed gangsters joined the group. The former started to be completely ignorant of the importance, while the latter knows how to eliminate the evidence because of the perpetual interaction with the police system. .

The Nazi Party relied on the most primitive violence and confusing propaganda, and gradually stood out from the party struggles in Germany. With the rise of the Nazis, the scale of the stormtroopers also expanded rapidly, and developed to the national German stormtroopers at the peak. The number of people exceeded three million, which was thirty times that of the German Wehrmacht whose total strength was controlled at 100,000.

After the Nazi Party took control of the German regime, Hitler no longer needed to fight the rival parties on the streets, he had more means to conceal his opponents. At this time, Hitler needed to establish a healthy and upward image among the Germans. Therefore, it was necessary to change the style of the off-chain bulldogs of the stormtroopers in the past, and to move closer to the direction of observing the German order and tradition.

Hitler first withdrew a series of privileges he had given to the stormtroopers. Hitler wanted to include the stormtroopers as part of the German national machine and positioned it as an auxiliary department of the police system.

This was obviously not what Roma wanted to see, and the rapidly expanding organization of the stormtroopers also gave him blind confidence. He even began planning to use his stormtroopers to replace the already decayed German Wehrmacht.

Roma always thinks highly of himself, and he doesn't think much of Hitler, a former army corporal, so every time when the two people's ideas conflict, he never takes the latter's face into consideration. Roma began to declare to the outside world that he was ready to launch a second revolution and fulfill the promises made to the German people in the twenty-five party platforms of the Nazi Party. He demanded that the capital of large enterprises and large trusts be nationalized and the wealth of those capitalists Divided into every German citizen.

In fact, people with clear eyes understand that Roma’s spear is actually directed at Hitler, because the other party has reached a compromise with the domestic capital forces in Germany. Once the second revolution that Roma said began, if Hitler expressed opposition, he will definitely lose the people’s support.

Roma's arrogant provocation finally exhausted Hitler's patience. After clearly receiving the support of the military and capital forces, he decisively launched the "Long Sword Night." The main force responsible for this **** cleansing is that he purposely supported the new army against the stormtroopers and is only loyal to his personal SS.

After the long knife night, the SS quickly replaced the role played by the stormtroopers and became the sharpest blade of the Nazi party. The stormtroopers were hit hard in this infighting. At least more than 2,000 high- and middle-level commanders were arrested throughout the country. In addition to the more than 200 people who were executed at the time, the remaining people have all died in succession. In the concentration camp.

After the cleansing, the stormtroopers completely withdrew from the German political front, completely reduced to the kind of auxiliary unit in the Hitler plan. But the Stormtroopers have been in Germany for more than ten years after all, and Hitler could not erase the influence of this group among the people, let alone ban it. He can only minimize the social activities of the stormtroopers, and no longer organize flag parades on the streets in two days.

At the same time, he also incorporated a large number of the backbone of the stormtroopers into the expanding German Wehrmacht. This trick was very effective. The loss of these active elements, the stormtroopers quickly lost their original vitality, and the number of people quickly reduced to The degree of control, and most of them are old and weak, whose age or physical conditions do not meet the service standards.

Now the veterans of the stormtroopers riding bicycles on the streets, or the rookie with a childish face and the scarf of the Hitler Youth League, gradually replaced the heroic image of the stormfighters holding the party flag in the early Nazi propaganda. By 1940, the stormtroopers could only be responsible for some security patrols and preparations for recruit training, and no longer had the old view of roaring the streets.

"Salute to the head of state! Hi! Reinhardt!" Under the leadership of the leading stormtroopers first-level squad leader, a new generation of stormtroopers resolutely declared their loyalty to the new generation of imperial heads.

The head of state stood high on the table, looking down on the young faces, raised his hands and turned his wrists. "Hi..."

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