What I’m Reading: How Did Hitler Happen? – 8 in a series – “…the party had a newspaper, an official flag, and a private army…”

”Hitler was the ideologue as well as the chief organizer of the Nazi Party. By 1921, the party had a newspaper, an official flag, and a private army—the Sturmabteilung SA (storm troopers)—made up largely of unemployed and disenchanted WWI veterans. By 1923, the SA had grown to 15,000 men and had access to hidden stores of weapons.

From How Did Hitler Happen? from the National WWI Museum | New Orleans

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