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Parent topics
- German military forces [r]: German military traditions and organization from pre-19th century unification, through the World Wars, through reunification [e]
- Freikorps [r]: Any of a number of German volunteer paramilitary groups formed after World War I; many were absorbed into the Stahlhelm and then the Sturmabteilung (SA) [e]
Subtopics
- Ernst Roehm [r]: (1887-1934) Career military officer; early Nazi and closest friend of Adolf Hitler, and the operational leader, in the 1930s, of the Sturmabteilung ("Storm Troops"; “Brownshirts”, SA); revolutionary who emphasized socialism in National Socialism; purged and killed 1934, as part of the Night of the Long Knives [e]
- Adolf Hitler [r]: (1889–1945) Politician in Germany; became 1921 Nazi Party leader, 1933 Reichskanzler (Chancellor), then 1934 as der Führer dictator before and during World War II. [e] Rpehm, who was von Epp's protege, introduced Hitler to a social class to which he had no access
- Pour le Merite [r]: Highest German military valor award through WWI; no direct replacement under the Nazis [e]
- Bavaria [r]: The southernmost state in Germany whose capital is Münich (München). [e]