Hitler's Storm Troopers helped a lot in putting him into power. He didn't purge them until their number had grown to nearly 3 million. They were led by a homosexual named Ernst Rohm. He and other S.A. homosexual leaders were the thugs that knocked down opposition political events and defended Hitler's Nazi rallies. Apparently about 70% were former communists.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturmabteilung
https://www.bbc.com/bitesize/guides/zpvhk7h/revision/4
The Storm Troopers (Sturmabteilung) were paramilitary. In the first world war actual military units of Storm Troopers were made to generate unconventional tactical ops. After the war they slowly evolved as civilian paraa of former soldiers and beer hall thugs to become a political organizational resource for Nazi empowerment. The German army apparently was limited to just 100,000 soldiers by the armistice agreement.
The S.A. became a worry eventually to German army officers. While Hitler was exploiting article 48 of the Weimar constitution to grant himself emergency powers after being appointed Chancellor (the Nazis were the largest party in the Reichstag) he created the Enabling Act that let him become dictator. Army officers required that he purge S.A. leadership- their purpose was completed. The rising new S.S. was tasked to work the purge of the S.A. Four hundred S.A. leaders were killed in the Knight of the Long Knives in 1934.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_48_(Weimar_Constitution)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enabling_Act_of_1933
It is not unlikely that homosexual former communists believed the German Democratic National Socialist party would help deliver on making the Weimar State a socialist swine utopia getting rid of large private property-estates. Apparently they did not understand Hitler's true political interests-direction.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturmabteilung
https://www.bbc.com/bitesize/guides/zpvhk7h/revision/4
The Storm Troopers (Sturmabteilung) were paramilitary. In the first world war actual military units of Storm Troopers were made to generate unconventional tactical ops. After the war they slowly evolved as civilian paraa of former soldiers and beer hall thugs to become a political organizational resource for Nazi empowerment. The German army apparently was limited to just 100,000 soldiers by the armistice agreement.
The S.A. became a worry eventually to German army officers. While Hitler was exploiting article 48 of the Weimar constitution to grant himself emergency powers after being appointed Chancellor (the Nazis were the largest party in the Reichstag) he created the Enabling Act that let him become dictator. Army officers required that he purge S.A. leadership- their purpose was completed. The rising new S.S. was tasked to work the purge of the S.A. Four hundred S.A. leaders were killed in the Knight of the Long Knives in 1934.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_48_(Weimar_Constitution)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enabling_Act_of_1933
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