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Also Known As	Storm Troopers • Braunhemden • Sturmtruppen • Sturmabteilung • Brownshirts
Date	1921 - 1945
Related People	Adolf Hitler • Hermann Göring • Josef Dietrich • Martin Bormann • Josef Mengele • Hans Fritzsche • Ernst Röhm • Horst Wessel • Paul Hausser

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Nazi soldiers on horseback parade down a city street in Breslau, Germany, as crowds salute and buildings are draped with swastika flags during World War II.

Blocking the entrance of Jews

Newspaper coverage of the Night of the Long Knives

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